Mixture of Old and New
The great bell of Rouen Oathdcrnl, whose history goes back eight centuries, is now to b c rung by electricity, a strange mixture of old and new. The hand apparatus which the new electrical installation supersedes was set, up live centuries and a-half ago, a creaking contrivance of wheels am M'PC.S. A man had to climb five flights ot stairs to ring it for fifteen minutes eviry night, with straining muscles and bent back. Now Tt is rung by touching a switch I
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Waipawa Mail, Volume L, Issue 43, 28 December 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)
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88Mixture of Old and New Waipawa Mail, Volume L, Issue 43, 28 December 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)
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