For several years City dwellers and workers in and around the Royal Exchange have been enduring the false ringing of the chimes of this building. from time immemorial they have rung out their cld world tunes muck to the de-Tight of those who haunt the region of the Royal Exchange, but shoutly before and still more during the war there has been a great falling off in the tunes, which have very sadly deteriorated. The playing of the old airs on weekdays and of the sacred songs on Sundays was regarded more as a print interlude than as the they were in times gone When the bells began touring the boys of the neighbourhood would cry "Take cover?" so that these glorious old bells had come to be considered more as a subject for version than anything else.
Happily a few weeks ago the matter was taken up by the Gresham Committee. A short hand typist, Miss Bartlett, who spends ber days under the sound of the bells, was asked to make an examination of them in order to find out what was wrong. Miss Bartlett was considered the most suitable person to carry out such an examination as she is extremely musical, has a very true eat and understands the technique of belis. She found them to in 2 very bad state of repair and reported the matter to the Gresham Gommittee, who took the matter in hand and the bells are now in the very act of being put right to the hearts City dwellers. and og soon sate ain bring joy Miss Bartlett fiat the interesting ari in a series of English, aissorery that the bells were Scot "stich and Welsh melodies and sacred songs. She made out a list of the various melodies, which run as follows; they are Fung st nine, twelve, six and nina o'clock—four times a day
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.