Ringing World 5125 (17 July 2009)
Front Cover: Morville bells ring again after a fifty-five year break by Ian RoweThe church bells of St Gregory the Great in Morville, Shropshire, have come back to life after more than half a century lying derelict in their tower, following a successful three year campaign costing £100,000 to re-hang the existing six and add two more as well to create a new light eight.
Restoration of the bells at Long Preston
The restored three bells at Long Preston, which is situated near Settle in Ribblesdale, were rededicated by the Bishop of Bradford on Sunday, 10th May.
Letters
Child Protection - Gill Waldron, John A. Hall, Peter Sanderson, Philip Sealey
Quarter Peals Analysis - Alan A. J. Buswell
A conundrum - Sue Marsden
Eurydice Doubles - Sam Austin
My old bike - Colin Conway
Leek 60 years ago - Geoff Burton
Mobile Ringing Heritage Centre - Richard Offen
Twelve Bell Contest - Ann White
Hong Kong bell - Michael Orme
How to turn the screw? - Jonathan Stevens
Worcester Cathedral Volunteers’ Talk, 21st January 2008 by Mark Regan
A shop keeper, a house husband, a trainee manager at Tesco, two farmers, a brewer, an academic editor, an investment banker, three university teachers, an agricultural blacksmith, a retired manager of chemical plants in South Africa, an Inland Revenue inspector, a gas engineer, two teachers, a B & B proprietor, a transport logistics manager, a student at Pershore Horticultural College, school students (primary to sixth form), a train driver, the Cathedral’s fund-raising manager, and the director of clinical medicine at the Royal Worcester Hospital. These are some of the Cathedral’s bellringers...
Book Review
‘Carry on Counting’ by Karl Grave
This forty-page booklet is aimed at those who have learned how to handle a bell competently, have good bell control and want to take their first steps in change ringing. It is divided into two parts: the first part deals with plain hunting on six and the second part with mastering the plain course of Plain Bob Doubles. It is another one of the useful series of books published by the Whiting Society.
Obituary
John Hunt
Sam and Phil are married!
Sam George and Phil Gorman were married at St George’s Church, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire on Saturday, 6th June 2009.
Catrin Littlejohn and James Morgan
Cat and James met in Oxford at St Catherine’s College from where they graduated in the summer of 2006, before moving to begin work as trainee accountants in Newcastle.
From the E-Lists A round-up from the internet compiled by John Camp
Rod Bickerton challenged the bell historians to name the county with the best bells.
Thought for the week
Last week, I took part in our local county striking competition. A mere shadow of the twelve-bell event in London, but nevertheless the same mix of trauma, loyalties, and appreciation of good quality ringing.
