[Bell Historians] Gillett and Johnston

[Chris Pickford]

By dedication date (rather than - generally unknown - casting date) the final G&J jobs were:

24/12/1954                  Cranleigh, Surrey (8 - complete new ring)
 
?/?/1955                       Wetherden, Suffolk (6 - old bells rehung)
26/6/1955                    Calgary, Canada (3 - new bells, cast at Croydon) later augmented to six and afterwards to eight
 
6/2/1956                      Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey (5 - rehang and augmentation)
16/3/1956                    Goxhill, Lincs (6 - complete new ring)
8/7/1956                      Calgary, Canada (6 - the three new bells actually cast at Loughborough) later augmented to eight
 
24/2/1957                    Addington, Surrey (6 - rehang and augmentation)
11/8/1957                    Calgary, Canada (8 - the two new trebles cast at Loughborough). First rung 8/9/1957

So the answer to Mark's question depends on what you mean! Calgary being completed in three stages complicates the picture. The last complete "pure" G&J octave was Cranleigh - but Calgary was still a G&J job even though five of the bells were cast at Loughborough. Take your pick. Alternatively, Goxhill was the last complete ring - although only six (not eight) and also cast at Loughborough. 

Robert Lewis might also have mentioned the article "G&J - the final years from a JT perspective" by Andrew Higson in Ringing World 9 May 2003 pp.435-6 which clarifies the involvment of Taylors in the later work of the Croydon firm

CJP           
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