Ringing World 5155 (12 February 2010)
Front Cover: Augmentation to twelve bells at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
by Bill Brotherton, Project Leader and Tower Captain
After many years of effort, Scotland has at last got its first ring of twelve bells. At the end of November 2008 two new trebles were installed in St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh to create a 41cwt twelve and to bring to a close serious fundraising efforts started ten years ago.
“Bells Books and Bindings” – A date for Ringing Booklovers
Saturday February 27th, 2010
It is twelve years since the Library Committee held an outreach event and this one will be different!
We particularly want to meet Guild/Assoc/Society Librarians and for them to meet one another, plus the Friends, and anyone interested in ringing publications, including CDs, DVDs, ephemera – so not only books.
Letters
“Bang’d if I know” said Bow - Chris McKay
From the carillon world - John Ridgeway-Wood
Gaywood connections - John Stringer
Orange Juice Matters - Giles Field
Hitcham Delight in hand - John M Jelley
Illuminati and illumination - Len Palfrey
Vantage points – the view from St. Mary-le-Bow - Simon Meyer
Underground handbells - John Eisel
Book Review
Lincolnshire Bells & Bellfounders
John R. Ketteringham
2nd edition 2009. xvi, 422p.: ill.:30cm.
ISBN 978 09512738 8 3. £50 (+ p&p). Available from the author at 27 Bunkers Hill, Lincoln, LN2 4QS
From Grantham to Grimsby is sixty miles or so, and every inch of the journey is Lincolnshire – a large county of towns, villages, wolds, fens and coast. North’s Church Bells of the County and City of Lincoln (1882) was one of the largest of the nineteenth-century ‘county bell’ books, and has proved to be one of the most difficult for collectors. Little other material on the campanology of the county had been published until 2000, when John Ketteringham produced 300 copies of a new work, Lincolnshire Bells and Bellfounders. It sold out quickly. There was a revised edition with 15 pages of additions and corrections in 2004, and now we have what is described as the second edition, published in October last year and limited to 200 copies, of which over 130 were sold by subscription before publication.
Bradfield Ringing Course, August 20th-23rd 2009
by Helen Thomas (helper with the Grandsire Doubles group)
Once again a cast of over a hundred assembled at Bradfield College, Berkshire, back in the summer for a long weekend of ringing fun, education and entertainment. There was a good mixture of old friends and new faces among tutors, helpers and students.
Obituaries
Major Philip Tocock, Jean Sanderson, Fred Ross
Memories of 1949 – 1950 in Leicester by Peter & Jill Staniforth
The recent correspondence re. the first peal of Bristol Surprise Maximus prompted us to put pen to paper …
Ring for England on St George’s Day
Early in 2009 a campaign was initiated to encourage the celebration of St George’s Day – 23rd April – by ringing out bells from as many English church towers as possible. It received positive coverage in both the Sunday and weekday National Press and throughout many local papers.
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