Saturday 30 October 2010

Loughborough bell foundry back in business
BBC News
This 12 ton bell, cast by the foundry, was shipped to Malta in 1992 and was inaugurated by the Queen to mark the 50th anniversary of the wartime siege of ...

Tuesday 26 October 2010

Truro Cathedral to get new bells
Falmouth Penryn Packet
The work was carried out at Taylors Bell Foundry in Loughborough, Leicestershire. A party of more than a dozen people, made up of Diocesan and Truro ...

Thursday 21 October 2010

Taunton bell ringers seek help in saving ancient custom
This Is The Westcountry
Tom Harris, of the Bath & Wells Diocesan Association of Change Ringers, said: “The 400 year old art and skill of church bell ringing is at serious risk of ...
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Bell ringing in Brean
Burnham & Highbridge Weekly News
OPEN bell-ringing practice will take place in St Bridget Church, in Brean, tomorrow (Friday). The event is part of an open tower day for people to 'learn ...
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Friday 15 October 2010

Bishop of Stafford | Geoff Annas | St Peter's Primary School ...
THE new Bishop of Stafford christened his first visit to the Cheadle deanery bybellringing for the first time in 30 years. ...
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Ringing the changes with new bell at St Albans Abbey
Herts Advertiser
... of the fittings and movement made them difficult to ring was started over four decades ago, following a bequest from bell ringer Reginald Ewer.
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Thursday 14 October 2010

Bell enthusiasm rings out at St Mary's
Get Bracknell
The Bells Open Day was held at St Mary's Church in Winkfield to give people a taste of tower-bell and hand bell ringing on Saturday, September 25. ...
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Wednesday 13 October 2010

Peals in Zeals heard again after 60-year silence
This is Somerset
The bell ringers of St Martin's Church in Zeals who pulled the first peal in 60 ... and then to Nicholsons Bell Foundry to be placed in their new frame for ...

Monday 11 October 2010

Shotwick bell stolen from church in Cheshire

BBC News
All that remains of the Shotwick Bell is a few fragments that were broken off as the thieves carried it out of St Michael's Church in Wirral between 3 and 7 ...
Historic moment marked at St Albans Abbey as new bells are hoisted into the tower
St Albans & Harpenden Review
Deputy ring master Gerald Perry said it was often hard to teach bell ringing with the old 12 as they were not designed to be heard together. ...
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Churches open for bell ringing training
This Is The Westcountry
SEVERAL churches in Bridgwater are opening their doors to anyone interested in learning about bell ringing. The Bath and Wells Association is holding a ...
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Wednesday 6 October 2010

Ring the changes
The Star
By Russ Newton So, what's the ap-peal of bellringing? To answer that, you need to give Tickhill man Derek Wagstaff a bell... on his telephone, that is. ...
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Tuesday 5 October 2010

Village needs help
Weston & Somerset Mercury
A free pig roast and live music was on offer and children had the chance to dabble with bell ringing. The bells have rung in the village for more than 400 ...
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Saturday 2 October 2010

Cathedral bell tolls for lost species
Ekklesia
David Shreeve, the Church of England's national environment adviser, said: “The UN has invited anyone with a bell to ring it for biodiversity, ...
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Church bells stolen from workshop
East Anglian Daily Times
As part of the scheme three bells were removed from the church to be restored while another three were cast from scratch by Whitechapel Bell Foundry in ...
Letter: Chiming in
Yale Daily News
27): As a former Yale English major and a bell ringer, I'd like to applaud the efforts to introduce change ringing to Yale. I came to Yale in 1982 hoping to ...
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Lack of bell ringers could soon take its toll
Tewkesbury ADMAG
Mrs White added that bellringing is 'uplifting and a uniquely English tradition that should be kept going.' For details of how to get involved contact Mrs ...
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Lack of bell ringers could soon take its toll
Tewkesbury ADMAG
Mrs White added that bellringing is 'uplifting and a uniquely English tradition that should be kept going.' For details of how to get involved contact Mrs ...
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Bridport: Church bells worth £100k stolen from foundry
Bridport News
... £100000 and weighing several tons have been stolen from a Bridport foundry. ...Master bell hanger Andrew Nicholson fears they might never be recovered. ...