[Bell Historians] record keeping

[Howard Smith]

I would like to enter the debate about record keeping.

I have the greatest admiration for the Dove team on the quantity of information that is available. Anyone who suggests that it is too much is doing the exercise a great disservice.

I recently had a case in Northumberland where a school had approached a Vicar and asked for their bell back. Without any consultation the Vicar quite happily gave them the bell that had been stored unseen in a cupboard at the base of the tower.

The old school had burnt down and the bell went missing. A new school was built without a bell.

The bell that the school claimed as theirs was actually from a cemetery chapel that had been demolished by one of the current Church Warden's Father. This was done some years before the school burnt down and the chapel bell was deposited in the Church.

History corrected by passing on the info to the school, the local history society and the P.C.C. of the Church concerned.

Howard E J Smith

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