[Bell Historians] Rudhall's records.

[datkinson2@btinternet.com [bellhistorians]]

Christ Church Macclesfield has a ring of 10, full details of which are of course in Dove's Guide. The original peal of 10 was installed by Thomas Rudhall in 1777, immediately after the completion of the church itself, and bells 3 to 8 thereof remain. The treble and 2nd were sold off in 1815 when a new 9th was provided by William Dobson of Downham, the tenor was recast by Taylors in 1902, and the two new trebles were added by Taylors in 1947 to restore the peal to 10. 
 

 In the ringing chamber there is a framed, old handwritten sheet giving the approx weights of the original Rudhall 10, and inscribed at the bottom "Mears & Stainbank, 267 Whitechapel Road London". On the back of this framed document was sellotaped a very fragile cutting from some unknown publication, bearing the following information:
 

 "Mr Abraham Rudhall started the Gloucester Bell Foundry in 1684. He was succeeded by his sons, Abraham and Abel, who were followed successively by Thomas, Charles and John Rudhall.
 520 Peals are recorded in Messrs Rudhalls Catalogue, published in 1830.
 On their retirement, Mr Thomas Mears, of the Whitechapel Foundry, acquired and continued the Gloucester business under his own name, but after a few years he transferred the patterns, &c., to his London Foundry."
 

 My query is, do any copies of the Rudhall's 1830 Catalogue still exist, and if so where? Presumably Whitechapel might still have the original Rudhall records?
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