Ringing the changes for tower’s special anniversary peal
Morpeth Herald
“Each bell rope has to be specially made, but there are very few rope makers for bell ringing around now so we have been waiting quite a while for them.” There has also been some changes to the sallies, the woolly bits on the ropes. ...
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English bell-ringing comes to the Pyrenees
English bell-ringing comes to the Pyrenees by Catherine Ladd As previously reported by 'P.O. Life', the small Anglican congregation of Vernet-les-Bains held ...
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Ringers in competition
Tavistock Times Gazette
THE bells will be ringing out from Tavistock's St Eustachius Church this Saturday, October 1 when at least ten bellringing teams from around Devon will be ...

Slideshow: Dramatic pictures of rescue from Great St Mary's tower
Cambridge News
A dramatic rescue was made after a woman was trapped in the bell tower of Cambridge's Great St Mary's Church. The woman in her 60s collapsed in a bell ringing chamber yesterday afternoon and had to be hoisted through a window. ...
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Wanted: one team of bellringers
Fenland Today
Trying to recruit a bellringing team ST Peter and St Paul's Church, in Wisbech, has the district's only ten-bell tower but for years it has suffered from a lack of bellringers. Now an urgent plea for new ringers has been put out to get the historic ...
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Hearing the bells as real a-peel Wetherby Today The minimum age for a bell ringer is 11 and I'm told that the oldest bell ringer that Wetherby has had was the late Harry Mason who was still ringing well into his 80s. If you are interested or would like to know more about bell ringing, contact David ... See all stories on this topic »

Bellringers need new members
Oxford Mail
Bellringer Anthony Hughes, 70, is vice-captain of the group, and said bells had always been rung to mark major events. He said: “There will be a surge in bellringing around the Jubilee. It would be great to be full strength for it. ...
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