Thursday, 31 May 2012

Calling all ringers
Suffolk Free Press
A CALL has gone out for bell ringers to get ringing for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Derek Rose, from the Suffolk Guild of Ringers, says that Sudbury is short of campanologists – to give people who study bells their correct name – and ...
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Halesowen's historic bells will be ringing out for the Jubilee
Halesowen News
Halesowen's renowned St John the Baptist Church bellringers are preparing to take part in the celebrations which will see church bells ringing out up and down the country. The first bell will be rung at 3pm on Sunday on the Queen's barge on the Thames ...
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Jubilee: Brothers ringing out Jubilee peel
East Anglian Daily Times
By Ross Bentley Wednesday, May 30, 2012 TWO brothers with more than 100 years' experience of church bell-ringing between them will be leading an attempt to ring all the church bells in Suffolk this holiday weekend as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee...
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Jubilee joy as church bells ring out again
shropshirestar.com
One of the bells was made for Queen Anne in 1707, while the second dates back to the 14th century. But such was the tower's state of disrepair that it had been impossible to ring them both at the same time. Now, at 3pm on Sunday, they will join ...
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Monday, 28 May 2012

Bellringers set for jubilee celebration
Maidenhead Advertiser
Bellringers who proudly rang when the Queen ascended to the throne in 1952 will pull the ropes again on her diamond jubilee. Doreen Young and Kathleen Horne from Maidenhead have been bellringing almost every week of Her Majesty's 60-year reign.
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Bellringers set for jubilee celebration
Maidenhead Advertiser
Bellringers who proudly rang when the Queen ascended to the throne in 1952 will pull the ropes again on her diamond jubilee. Doreen Young and Kathleen Horne from Maidenhead have been bellringing almost every week of Her Majesty's 60-year reign.
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Sunday, 27 May 2012

Queen's Diamond Jubilee bell ringers rehearse on Thames barge
Telegraph.co.uk
As preparations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee continue, bell ringers in London practise on board a barge on the River Thames. The Belfry barge will lead the Queen's jubilee flotilla on June 3rd in what's expected to be one of the most spectacular ...
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