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INTRODUCTION There are preserved in the Lincolnshire Archives Office (LAO D&C A/4/14) a large number of papers relating to the hanging and casting of the Cathedral Bells which date from 1763 to 1834. The majority are from bellfounders giving proposals for the rehanging of the bells but after "Great Tom" was cracked in 1827, as the result of a report in the "Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury", a number of suggestions were submitted for the repair of the bell. Several of these are eccentric in the extreme but the wealth of material available gives a valuable picture of the thinking in the late Georgian and early Victorian period. In an Appendix I have included a short biography of the more significant letter writers.
An engraving of 'Great Tom' of 1610
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