BELL THAT WOULD NOT GO
Manchester Town Hall has sent 20 of its bells away, and 19 went quietly. It was only the twentieth, a five-ton veteran, who refused to be driven out, of doors. , , , , . Successfully taken down from his lofty belfry above the busy streets, he was carried to the door facing Albert Souare, and there he stuck. The elaborate upper structure was too wide to go through the doorway, and for hours the unrehearsed comedy of the bell which had somehow got in but could not get out was played before an interested audience. At last the metal top was cut through with an oxy-acetylene cutter, and the unwilling bell ushered ori its way.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23054, 3 December 1936, Page 11
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