Monday 30 April 2012

Community News - Terrington St Clement
Lynn News
A quiz, games and open tuck shop added to the enjoyable meeting. Bell Ringers - Volunteers have recently been successfully tutored to enable the church bells to be rung on a regular basis. More ringers are required however. No experiences is necessary ...
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South Wootton: Lottery lets bells ring out at church
Lynn News
BELLS at a West Norfolk parish church which have not been heard for at least 20 years should soon be ringing out again thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund. Three 17th century bells will be lowered from the belfry at St Mary's Church in South Wootton on ...
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Sunday 29 April 2012

Saturday 28 April 2012

Ringing endorsement from bell campaigner
The Oxford Times
The bell, measuring 31in in diameter, was cast yesterday at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London, which made Big Ben and the American Liberty Bell. Molten metal was poured into a mould by six trained men. It will be cooled over the weekend, ...
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Memorial bell cast
Oxford Mail
Fundraisers raised about £26000 to pay for the bell, including £9000 given by the Oxford Mail's parent company. The bell, measuring 31ins in diameter, was cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London. It has been forging bells since the 15 century ...
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Big top secret: 2012 Olympic opening ceremony is taking shape in a closely ...
The Independent
The same quotation will appear on a huge bell hanging at one end of the stadium, currently being cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the same company that produced Big Ben and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. If Rylance has been to the Dagenham big ...
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Friday 27 April 2012

Stained glass tribute to bell-ringers at Somerset church
This is Somerset
Subjects featured in churches' stained glass windows range from Bible stories and the lives of saints to local folklore and national events, but until now there has only been one documented church window celebrating bells and bell-ringing.
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Queen's Diamond Jubilee: the bells are ringing in your years, Ma'am
Telegraph.co.uk
Now, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry has the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in its sights. By Iain Hollingshead Standing among furnaces, lathes and gigantic pulleys in a factory in east London, Alan Hughes, the managing director of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, ...
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Thursday 26 April 2012

St Mary's bell-ringing marathon cut back due to protests - Dorset Echo
A church bell-ringing marathon has proved less than appealing for villagers.
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Olympics Not All About Sport For Arts Sake
LBC 97.3
And the Royal Navy has also signed up to ring every one of its ships bells for 3 minutes on Friday July 27th. "The church ringers are in and the Navy and you can download a Martin Creed bell ringing ring-tone if you don't happen to be a bell ringer ...
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London 2012 Festival unveils final line-up
BBC News
Mackenzie also said that a potential boycott by campanologists of a nationwidebell-ringing event to launch the first day of the Olympics had been averted. Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed wants the whole nation to ring whatever bell they have ...
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Bells to mark Titanic recovery mission
TheChronicleHerald.ca
“The biggest problem I'm running into is a lot of the churches don't have bells anymore, or for safety reasons they're no longer allowed to ring them. (But) most people think it's a really nice idea.” Halifax has already hosted a series of ...
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Stained glass tribute to bell-ringers
Wells People
Bell-ringer Reg Beale, 80, wanted to celebrate his parents devotion to the art so he commissioned stained glass artist John Yeo to design, paint and install a bell-ringers' window at the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, in his home village of ...
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St Mary's bell-ringing marathon cut back due to protests
Dorset Echo
A 12-hour ringathon had been planned for Saturday May 5, but the prospect of the bells of St Mary'sringing out all day provoked some concern and organisers have had to pull back their plans. Now, says churchwarden and treasurer Steve Adams, ...
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Apology over bell-ringing
This is Somerset
The peal of church bells began early in the morning of Friday April 20, in the village. A group of bell ringers from Glastonbury and Street had taken the opportunity to ring the six bells of Grade II listed church of St Lawrence. 1.
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Wednesday 25 April 2012

Anmer: The bells will be ringing . . .
Lynn News
The tower's two existing bells were removed in March – the first time they had seen daylight for hundreds of years - to be taken to London's Whitechapel bell foundry. They are due to be re-instated in the tower, joined by another bell from Bircham, ...
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Tuesday 24 April 2012

Bells ring out for England's St George
This is Plymouth
Church bells rang out loud and clear across the Westcountry yesterday to celebrate St George's Day. Local bellringers joined thousands of others across the UK to commemorate England's patron saint. Organisers behind the "Get Ringing for England" event ...
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Saturday 21 April 2012

Learn the ropes at Terrington St Clement
Lynn News
Terrington St Clement Parish Church will be hosting a bellringing open evening on Monday April 23. Organisers hope the evening will attract new members to join the ranks of the volunteers who have now been trained to enable the bells to be rung on a ...
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Bell ringer honoured for 70 years' service
Banbury Guardian
BELLRINGERS in Cropredy rang a special quarter peel on Sunday to honour a villager who has devoted 70 years to ringing the church bells. Les Underdown, 82, beganringing the bells of St Mary's Church in 1942, aged just 12, and since then has taught the ...
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Friday 20 April 2012

A pastime with pull
Isle of Wight County Press
My body is contorted in this 'I'm not worthy' sort of way because it's shuffling along a dainty trail first blazed by La Hofton about 12 years ago, when she agreed to learn the basics of bell-ringing in order to take part in a millennium peal.
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SOUTH PETHERTON: Bell ringers honoured in church window
View Online
By Marion Draper SOUTH Petherton bell ringer, Reg Beale, and his wife June were delighted to see their plan for a stained glass window in the parish church finally in place after waiting over a year. The couple wanted to mount the window in the west ...
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Made in Holland: The giant bell to mark start of London's Olympics ...
Mirror.co.uk
The giant bell due to be the focal point of the 2012 opening ceremony is being made in Holland, it was revealed yesterday. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry ...
"We simply don¿t have the pouring capacity": British firm making ...
Daily Mail
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which dates back to at least 1570 and cast Big Ben, was considered an obvious choice by the Olympic organiser Locog to make ...
'Olympic bosses have dropped a clanger over bell'
This is Leicestershire
Bosses of a foundry which bid to make a bell for the London Olympics reacted ... Taylors Bell Foundry, in Loughborough, was asked to provide a quote for ...
Olympic clanger sees bell go Dutch for manufacture
LoughboroughEcho.net
LOUGHBOROUGH'S Taylor's Bell Foundry - rejected in favour of a London firm to cast the ... The organisers of London 2012 approached Taylor's Bell Foundry, ...
Daily Telegraph
A giant bell at the centrepiece of the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony is being made in Holland, it emerged yesterday.

Thursday 19 April 2012

Ringing church bells for England
This is Somerset
The bells of Pilton Church will be ringing out on St George's Day, Monday, April 23, as part of a nationwide campaign. The Ringing for England aims to get all 44000 bell ringers to ring the 28000 bells in the 15000 churches in England, all at exactly ...
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Long Stratton church bells return following restoration
Norwich Evening News
The bells of a south Norfolk church have started ringing again following a restoration project. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below. The message will include the name and email address you gave us when you ...
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Heavenly metal music
Northern Rivers Echo
The bells were given a renovation and a re-tune before arriving in Lismore in 2002. Two smaller bellswere cast at the original foundry in 2003 and arrived ...
Long Stratton church bells return following restoration
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
But the church has begun chiming again following the maintenance work by the Whitechapel Bell Foundryin London to replace the clappers and install new ...

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Maryborough to Whitechapel: bells make return trip 125 years in making
Brisbane Times
The set of nine bells were installed at St Paul's Anglican Church in Maryborough in 1887, and were originally cast by Whitechapel Foundry in London, ...

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Bells off to the old dart
Fraser Coast Chronicle
Specialist church bell hanger Neil Thomas flew out from the UK to Maryborough ... before packing thebells up to take them to Whitechapel Foundry in London, ...

Sunday 15 April 2012

Whitestaunton church's bells appeal
This is The West Country
He said: “We have eight enthusiasts who are keen to take up bellringing and three neighbouring parishes are kindly offering tuition once our bell tower has been restored to competence.” The tower renovation would be supported by The Bath and Wells ...
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Tuesday 10 April 2012

Bells ring out in Imber
Salisbury Journal
The bell ringing was only the fourth time that the full set of six bells at St Giles Church has been rung since they were rehung in 2010. A team of bell ringers from Devon travelled to the deserted village on Salisbury Plain, which is only accessible ...
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Monday 9 April 2012

New bells dedicated at Cathedral
East Anglian Daily Times
Originally 10 bells were cast at the Downham Market foundry in 1985. They were re-tuned and re-hung lower in the tower by the John Taylor foundry in 1977 ...

Friday 6 April 2012

Bell-ringers appeal for committed volunteers
Berwick Today
AN appeal has been issued for fresh recruits to join the dwindling band of bell-ringers in Berwick and Bamburgh in time for the busy summer ahead. With the Queen's diamond jubilee and the Olympic Games approaching fast, the bell ringers need enough ...

Thursday 5 April 2012

Mathematician says bellringing is like formula
This is Gloucestershire
He took up the pastime last year when he was just 10 and has already become an established member of the bell-ringing community. "I just like the fact that you can go there and ring the bells at lots of different places," said the Cleeve School pupil.
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Meet the youngest bell-ringer in Gloucestershire
This is Gloucestershire
The 11-year-old is the county's youngest bell-ringer and spends hours each week mastering the art at St Peter's Church in Leckhampton. He took up the pastime last year when he was just 10 and has already become an established member of the bell-ringing ...
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