[Bell Historians] Blackbourne / Penshurst

[Richard Offen]

The bells were not removed from the tower in 1984, so not sure where the
exact tenor weight came from.

 

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Does anyone know if Thomas Blackbourne of Salisbury has any surviving
records? He rehung the 6 bells at Penshurst, Kent in a new iron frame
with 2 new bells to make 8 in 1896. The new bells were cast by Mears
and we have weights for these. The tenor is said to weigh 17-2-11 but
there are no 'exact' weights quoted for the older bells. Whitechapel
rehung the bells in 1984 but it doesn't appear that they weighed them.
Therefore I wonder where this quoted weight comes from, and whether
Blackbourne would have weighed the bells and whether their record would
have been passed down.

http://kent. <http://kent.lovesguide.com/penshurst.htm>
lovesguide.com/penshurst.htm

Thanks.
DrL



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