[Bell Historians] woburn 1/4's

[Roderic Bickerton]

Thank you so much. That was a real slog. I am suprised there is not am
image version that could be O C R'd and word searched. This forwarded to
Ray Watkin. I will poste his reply.
On 3 Nov 2013 18:03, "Mike Fradd" <mike at fradd.plus.com> wrote:

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> *From:* Richard Offen <richard.offen at iinet.net.au>
> *To:* bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 02, 2013 11:23 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Bell Historians] woburn 1/4's
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> Have just finished checking al 1995 and 1996 RWs also early months of 1997
> in case any got printed late, only took 3 hours at £35 an hour I would take
> £100 but could I gift aid it? Only quarters that showed up were
> 24th Dec 1994 Yorkshire SM p256
> 5th Jan 97 Grandsire triples p273
> 23rd Jan 97 Plain Bob major p 435
> 4th August 96 Cambridge SM p913
> 5th Sept 96 Yorkshire SM p 1087
> 22nd Sept 96 Grandsire Triples p1135
> 26th Sept 96 London SM p1180
> 20th Oct 96 Yorkshire SM p1202
> 3rd Nov 96  Rutland SM p1254
> 24th Oct 96 Superlative SM p1287
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> If I had a reputation, I would stake it on those being the only quarters
> in the Quarter Peal Columns for 95 and 96
> Can I suggest that the Kent association puts all quarters rung in its
> towers in its Annual report, I don't know what they do in Beds, but it
> ought to be worth checking.
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> On 3 Nov 2013, at 2:33 am, Mike Fradd <mike at fradd.plus.com> wrote:
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>  I have just retrieved the appropriate volumes from the vault where I
> keep my archives and will look through the quarter peal columns for any
> entries, I shall not look through other places where quarters may be
> hidden, obituaries, outing reports etc. You never know I may have to ask a
> favour myself sometime so there will be no charge, I tried to get info
> about a local bell from Whitechapel who made it, they said they would
> charge £35 an hour plus VAT minimum charge 2 hours and no guarantee of
> anything being found, needless to say I did not bother, but told them I
> would be available if they had any jobs going to look through their records
> at those prices.I will do this search at the wekend expect the results on
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> Again, as Dickon said of the Ringing World, Whitechapel are in the
> business of making bells, not researching their records, which I suspect
> are not catalogued in any detailed way, so you can't really blame them for
> needing to make a charge to cover their time costs.
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