Mixture of Old and New
The great bell of Rouen Cathdoral, whose history’ goes back eight centuries, is now to b e rung by electricity, a strange mixture of old and new. Thc hand apparatus which the new electrical installation supersedes was set up five centuries and a-half ago, a creaking contrivance of wheels ami
A man had to climb five Hights of Mairs to ring it for fifteen minutes every night, with straining muscles and bent back. Now it is rung bytouching a switch!
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 296, 15 December 1928, Page 18 (Supplement)
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85Mixture of Old and New Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 296, 15 December 1928, Page 18 (Supplement)
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