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It's one of those shops that as you walk in it seems to grow and grow a bit like the Tardis. I love enthusiasts shops and this has it all! Just pop down to Walcot Street you will not be disappointed.
I have heard this bell called a cow head bell and a cow horn bell, don't care what the correct name is, I just like to heat it ring!
The bell was covered with rust and crust when I found it at a yard sale last Fall. I probably paid too much , but something about piqued my interest, even though there was no clapper.
When it was new from the foundry, it was clean and rang loud and clear, but sometime over the years the clapper was lost and the bell fell into disuse. For over six months the old rusty bell sat in my basement, then last week, I found a clapper that fit. After a few hours invested taking the bell apart, brushing, cleaning and painting, it again rings loud and clear.
I woke up at 3:00 AM on 2 May thinking about the parallels I have with the old bell. Jesus saved me in 1960 at age 10, for a few years I rang loud and clear, then for a while, not so loud. The Master paid too much for me to not ring out loud and clear, and I think that was what drew me to the old bell. Take time every day, Jesus will remove the rust and crust from your life!!