[Bell Historians] woburn 1/4's

[Alan Taylor]

I wish what is left of the Whitechapel archives was transferred to the Metropolitan Archive in Clerkenwell. Maybe Dickon could convince Alan Hughes to do this. But I get the impression that Alan Hughes likes to be difficult with ringers.

Alan

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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<mailto: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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