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and the 6th and tenor bells have been sent to WBF for scrapping.

8th October 2009: Two ex-Shiplake bells to be used at Newnham, Hampshire as part of the project to restore and augment to a ring of five.

5th September 2009: Moseley, St Mary have acquired another of the Gillett & Johnston ex-Greenock chime. They have now acquired the back three bells of a proposed 18cwt ring of ten.

29th August 2009: A bell removed from St John's, Weymouth to replace a steel bell at Sibbersfield House, Churton clock tower.

27th August 2009: Two ex-Quarriers Village bells to be used at North Rigton, N. Yorkshire as part of the project to install a light ring of five based on the redundant bells from St Bartholomew, Ewood, Blackburn.

23rd August 2009: One of the former Upper Beeding trebles is to become the treble of eight at Menangle, NSW after tuning.

17th August 2009: The old 6th bell from All Saints, Wokingham is to be installed for chiming at Mucknell Abbey, Worcester.

13th August 2009: Three ex-Cradley Heath bells are to be installed at St John the Divine, Merton, London as part of the installation of a ring of eight bells at the church.

13th August 2009: A surplus bell (ex-Lanchester) is to be installed as the second of a chime of three at Millbrook, Bedfordshire.

6th July 2009: A small second-hand bell to re-instate a missing bell at the former school at St Pinnock, Cornwall.

17th June 2009: A second-hand bell to be installed as treble of six at Hutton, Somerset.

14th June 2009: The old 5th bell from Shiplake may become the third of a chime of four at Nunton, Wiltshire.

1st June 2009: A small undated bell to be installed for chiming in Sierra Leone.

26th May 2009: The bells project at St Mary's, Moseley has changed from installing a ring based on the ex-Cradley Heath tenor bells to a ring based on the tenor bells from St George's North, Greenock. The ex-Cradley Heath bells are being released for re-use elsewhere and it is planned to use them at St John the Divine, Merton, London as part of the installation of a ring of bells at the church.

24th May 2009: A surplus old-style tuned bell from Hugh Town, Scilly Isles is to replace the modern True Harmonic 7th bell in the ex-Widnes ring currently in storage with the Merseyside Bell Restoration Group. Update 13th August 2009: The bell was found to be cracked in the crown and will now be scrapped.

21st May 2009: A surplus bell from St Martin's church, Southdene, Merseyside to be installed at St Mary's Primary School in Liverpool.

19th May 2009: The unringable four at Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire are to be restored and augmented to six using at least one redundant bell.

21st March 2009: A second-hand bell to be acquired by an individual for a potential project.

21st March 2009: A second-hand bell to be acquired by a bell-hanger for a potential project.

12th March 2009: A second-hand bell to replace a cracked bell at Oborne, Dorset (subject to faculty etc.).

11th March 2009: A second-hand bell to be installed for chiming at Sts Peter & Paul, Shiplake, Oxfordshire.

10th March 2009: A second-hand bell to become part of a proposed mobile ring (subject to the project receiving funding).

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