Ringing World 5145 (4 December 2009)
Front Cover: Westminster Abbey, 11th November 2009
A Service to Mark The Passing of The World War One Generation
Exactly ninety-one years ago, at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent. The Great War was over. Lives, friendships, families, societies, nations had been shattered. Everything had changed.
On this day two years later and at this hour, an Unknown warrior, chosen at random to represent all those of these islands who had fought and died, accorded the highest honour of a state funeral, was buried here. His grave was to become the focus of our national remembrance and to have international significance.
Central Council of Church Bell Ringers
Notes of a meeting between CCCBR, EH and CBC representatives
A meeting took place on 9th October 2009 at Church House, Westminster, between representatives of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers and officers of the Church Buildings Council and English Heritage.
The Ancient Society of College Youths’ 372nd Anniversary Feast
Report and photos by Nigel Herriott
The fifth of November is a date that immediately brings a variety of thoughts and images to our minds. Whilst the average citizen of this country may think of bonfires and fireworks, there are some whose minds turn to an event that took place on the same day just thirty-two years after Guy Fawkes’ ill-fated plot. And so nearly three hundred members and guests of the Ancient Society of College Youths met on the nearest Saturday, 7th November, for the Society’s annual dinner which commemorates the founding of the society on 5th November 1637.
Letters
Child Protection - Chris Mew
Call change peals - Owen J. Borlase and John A Purdey
Bristol S. Maximus - R. Kingsley Mason
Dedication of St Helen’s Church, Little Eversden, Cambs, 17th October
Since 1229 people have worshipped at St Helen’s. The fabric of the church has stood here since the 14th century. The bells, four of them, cast between 1629 and 1756, fell silent in the mid 19th century. The dream that the bells should be restored, held dear by the long-serving rector of the parish Thomas Volans (d.1978), was kept alive by many in the village, led by the late Emily Munk and her God-daughter, Barbara Sach. In February 2007, the casting of the the treble, the Volans bell, and the 2nd, the Fossey bell by the Whitechapel bellfoundry, and the new installation by White’s of Appleton was complete. The bells were ringable, the tower had come alive again. On this day, the 900th anniversary of the Diocese of Ely, the bells were re-dedicated, with David Bishop of Huntingdon presiding.
Obituaries
Herbert A Bradbury, John William Banks
X is for Xanadu by Simon Linford
JRK hits the Big 80!
John Ketteringham, known to his many friends as JRK, has had a very active ringing career not only in Lincolnshire where he was born but in Derbyshire, Bristol, London and Worcester were his working life as a civil servant took him.
