[Bell Historians] woburn 1/4's

[Andrew Bull]

This would seem a fair argument, but as is well-known in some quarters, the
attitude of Whitechapel to genuine requests for information from their
archives is in stark contrast to that of Taylors. However, having one
inadvertently caused offence by opening that particular can of worms, I will
make no further comment.

 

Andrew Bull

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On 3 Nov 2013, at 2:33 am, Mike Fradd <mike at fradd.plus.com> wrote:

  

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 Monday.

Mike Fradd

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. 

 

R



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