Reference
P85/2/7/8
Title
Folder of correspondence and papers concerning the restoration of the bells
Date free text
1937 - 1949
Production date
From: 1937 To: 1949
Scope and Content
including:
copy report on the bells by E.H.Lewis, Brasted, Kent, 18 Feb. 1937;
copy estimates from John Taylor & Co, bellfounders, Loughborough, 12 June 1946;
general contractors' specification, n.d.;
Report by Romilly B. Craze, architect, London, on the proposal to install a new ring of ten bells in a frame of cast iron and steel, September 1947, and addendum January 1948;
correspondence between the parish (James Wing, Secretary of the Bells Committee) and the architect, concerning the progress of the work July 1947 - May 1949;
correspondence between the Vicar (Canon W.Davison) and the architect about the need to increase the volume of sound from the bells outside the tower, April to Sept. 1949;
correspondence between James Wing and John Taylor & Co., Nov.1946 - June 1949;
correspondence between James Wing and William Potts & Sons Ltd, clockmakers, Leeds, Oct.1948 - Sept.1949;
correspondence with Seaward Bros, builders, Luton, Messrs.Foster & Dicksee Ltd, Rugby (sale of old bellframe timber), and the Diocesan Registrar and Diocesan Advisory Committee; with appeal leaflets (2) and
invitation card and order of service for dedication 7 July 1949
Level of description
file