Michael Lee has spent 20 years researching and writing a number
of historical documents. The first and largest is on the life and works of Henry
Penn bellfounder at Chacombe, Ecton and Peterborough in Northamptonshire from
1685-1729
The photograph shows Mike with the late Dean Randolph Wise
with one of the bells on the lifting gear during the removal of the largest
ring of 5 bells in the world. Henry Penn cast bells for 100 known Churches and
great houses. The most difficult of these installations was here at Peterborough
Cathedral in 1709 where the largest of ten bells weighed 1.5 tons.
