Fw: [Bell Historians] Metal Prices

[Richard Offen]

> Yes, Richard is quite correct. It was a time of intense 
reorganization and he will doubtless remember the yard being cumbered 
up with the bells from St Magnus, Southwark HT, "Botolph St Morley" 
as well as the temporary residence of the Maddermarket bells and the 
even shorter one of the eights from Camberwell St George (a good 
Dobson eight, whose destruction WAH also detested doing), the Shaw 
eight from Bradford (interesting, but not as good as his handbells!), 
and that lovely G&J chime of 1952, from Bognor, which ended up in 
Africa somewhere.
> 
> Then, out the back, 'in the weeds' were the five from Aveley (the 
back 3 eventually rehung as a chime) and the ex-Colchester six, now 
at Basildon.
> 
> Seems like yesterday ...
> 
> DLC
>

It does seem like yesterday!   We must be getting old David!

WAH hated breaking up perfectly good rings and often, even though 
he'd bought them for scrap, would hang on to them far longer than his 
bank manager would have liked in the hope of finding them a home.

R