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THE BELLS OF WIRRAL
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WBi\}tn tjjebbcti lobe mafeeg ttoo as; one abibe
t^Jjeir joj> toe siijare, anb spreab it far anb
toibe."
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Jfrom ittersiep'g banfess gounbs! iort\) our
gacreb glee,
ginb courts! responfiibe ecijoesf from tbe
Bee."
" ^loft are toe, but loftier points; tlje gpire,
Wt^at, fjeabentoarb, man s;f)oulb rais;e \)i&
7.
ijeart's; bes;ire."
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iWap eberp sitrain nxelobious; toe outpour
^tir all toljo tear, ^ob's; soobne^S to
8.
abore."
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(Gloria in Cxtelsiig."
Number eight is a very common bell
inscription.
The bells at Woodchurch and Lower
Bebington are all modern, but those at
Bidston have an interesting history, for
of six were recast in 1868
five of the peal
from three older bells, one of which was
said to have borne the inscription,
" ^ancti (J^stoalbi."
And it is on the strength of this tradition
that the church bears its
in his
present
"Hun-
dedication. Phillip Sully,
dred of Wirral," says that this bell was
brought from Hilbre in 1536, and that it
originally came from the parish church of
St. Oswald, in Chester.
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