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| St Michael, Bowness-on-Solway: notes about bells | ||
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Whitehead 1885:- |
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| vol.8 p.511 |
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| vol.8 p.512 |
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| vol.8 p.513 |
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| vol.8 p.514 |
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| vol.8 p.515 |
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| Whitehead, H: 1885: Church Bells in Cumberland Ward, part I: TransCWAAS: vol.8: pp.505-531 |
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| hearsay:- |
Scots border reivers stole the church bells, but abandoned them in the middle of the
ford across the Solway to lighten ship when being chased; the fault of the Bowness
men, of course. It is said that the ghostly sound of the bells is heard from the Bell
Pool or Bell Dub, where they lie, when it is quiet of an evening. |
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| Bells for the church were got in a reprisal raid, stolen from Dornock and Middlebie;
the smaller bell, 1611, from Dornock; the larger, 1616, from Middlebie. Whenever a
new vicar was inducted at St Michael's there used to be a request from Dornock's minister
to please return his bell. The reply was always:- |
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| "... when ours come back from the sea." |
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| New bells were given to the church by Mrs Irving of Portcarlisle in 1905, they now
lie in the church. |
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