Friday, 12 August 2011

Record breakers ring changes
Bakewell Today
RINGING RECORD: One hundred bell ringers took part in a record breaking attempt at Bakewell Parish Church. One hundred bell ringers descended on Bakewell to take part in a world record attempt. Bakewell Parish Church hosted the event to celebrate 100 ...
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Thursday, 11 August 2011

Spire's rubble yields bells
Stuff.co.nz
The bells, which together weigh 7 1/2 tonnes, will be sent for re-tuning to Taylors Bell Foundry in Loughborough, England, where they were made in 1978. ...

Monday, 8 August 2011

Schools urged to have chime of their lives
Birmingham Mail
by Stacey Quane, Birmingham Mail Members of St Martin's Guild of Church Bell Ringers have launched an appeal for new pairs of hands to join them as the number of recruits has dropped off. The Birmingham Diocese has 300 bells but only 206 ringers. ...
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Friday, 5 August 2011

Bell-ringer and skilled electrical engineer Geoffrey Cheetham
Todmorden Today
GEOFFREY Cheetham, who died on Wednesday, July 20, was a skilled electrical engineer who, whilst in his teens, became passionately involved in church bell-ringing, writes Bill Birch. The only son of Arnold and Eva Cheetham, he was educated at Roomfield ...
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Sneak peek at the bells that will ring in city once again
Worcester News
By Sarah Davies » BELLS will ring out over St John's once more as a Worcester church nears the end of a £200000 project. Contractors have been carrying out repairs to the bell tower at St John-in-Bedwardine since February, following years of damage ...
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Thursday, 4 August 2011

Bell epoch
The West Australian
There is an audio-visual system, with a camera on the Swan Bells and screen in thebellringing loft, so that guests can see the bells as well as hear them. The Bell Tower, which has just celebrated its 10th birthday, is one of the world's biggest ...
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Volunteers needed to keep up Morpeth bell-ringing tradition
Journal Live
Now an appeal has been launched to recruit local young people to literally learn the ropes, and swell the ranks of the local bell-ringing society. The evening curfew is rung on a rota basis by six young members of the Morpeth Clock Tower Bell-Ringers, ...
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