DAVID AND JENNIE'S WEDDING
Married at St Charles Church Gosforth Newcastle Upon Tyne
Reception at the Baltic
6th October 2007
Bride Prepares & Arrives at Church :: Hardwick Hall Hotel, Sedgefield and St Mary's Bishop Auckland
Wedding Video by SRB Multimedia, make-my-video.co.uk
Church bells ring - St Cuthbert's Church Brattleby UK
via YouTube Capture
'Swedwards' Outing to Wiltshire 2016
Thank you to simonbellringer for inviting me on this outing.
Stannington Sunday Bells
The bells of the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Stannington in Northumberland
This imposing village church is a Victorian rebuild of 1871. The main benefactor was Sir Matthew White Ridley, 4th Baronet of nearby Blagdon Hall. His son, also Matthew White Ridley, would later be promoted to Viscount. Blagdon remains the family seat to this day.
The eight bells in this church were added much later in 1934 and were cast by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough. Tuned to the musical note Db Major, the heaviest bell weighs 30 cwt - 1 qtr - 16 lb (~1.5 tonnes)!
In most UK churches, bells are mounted on a wheel and are turned full circle (360 degrees, see One person controls one bell in the tower. However, at Stannington, the bells are hung stationary (dead) off a beam across the tower and are all played by one person known as a carillonneur. The clappers are connected to a clavier further down the tower and the clavier is played much like a piano (see
Cawthorne church
via YouTube Capture
Middlesmoor Bells
The bells of Middlesmoor, North Yorkshire. A reasonable Blews six that have been tuned and rehung using the skills and labour of some North Yorkshire ringers.
Bell ringing in East Tytherley
Bell ringing at East Tytherley Sept 2013
Holy Trinity Church Nottingham England
Here is the first warning which I have slowed down.
GO BACK!!
Two days later, I revisted this church and received the EVP:-
YOU COME!!??
New Covenant Church Renewing Vows
NCChurch Renewing Vows
The Bells of St Giles, Northampton
The recordings were taken when members of the Ancient Society of College Youths were ringing a peal of Cambridge Surprise Royal on 25th January 2014.
St Marys' Bells Tetbury
Excerpt taken from around 90 minuets in.
CallChangesSprotborough
Ranmoor Ringers on a local tour to Sprotborough ringing call changes.
The camera is between third and fourth: I am calling from the fourth and the piece is rung at half-speed: that's a change every other handstroke.
With the notation below: for example 3525 means that the third is called UP one place, then the fifth UP one place then the second UP one place, then the fifth UP one place again, which would give us 14236758 in this case.
From rounds there was called:
33334445566664 to give 12753468 (Whittingtons)
112221112221335557777444444 to pass through penultimately 13572468 (Queens)
773333 to pass through (penultimately again) 15263748 (Titums)
221114321 for the Wrap 56781234 where we stopped
The rest of the piece is 5555555666666677777778888888 for Rounds - and then every pair of bells has been swapped over and swapped back either exactly once or exactly twice, and all bells have led. Even more of a challenge at full speed - one call for each handstroke.
Exterior St Mungo's Parish Church Alloa Clackmannanshire Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the exterior and Spire on ancestry visit to to St Mungo's Parish Church in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. This Scottish church is named after St. Mungo, also known as St. Kentigern, patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow. The current church, designed by architect James Gillespie Graham, replaced the old parish church from the seventeenth century.
New Moseley bells
The start of rounds on ten. Sorry for the long gap at the start. This is the first youtube vid I've submitted.
A Holy Well - Lake District
This is one of the many Holy Well's in the Lake District.
A natural cave carved out by water, this is in the south of the county.
It is truly amazing and beautiful. Most are in the north of Cumbria.
Below is an extract from an article published by The Whitehaven News in 2010- saying that not enough is made of Cumbria's Holy Wells.
The same year the government said it is satisfied that geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste, including waste from new nuclear power stations, is technically achievable and that a suitable site can be identified for the geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste ..........UNHOLY WELLS NO THANKS!
THE SEARCH FOR WEST CUMBRIA'S HOLY WELLS
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Alan Cleaver peers into Cumbria's holy wells...
In many parts of the country, holy wells have been restored and have become popular tourist spots and helped preserve a valuable part of our history. Only Stanger Spa in West Cumbria has been rescued to date but it would be nice to see more made of the likes of Gosforth holy well.
Various attempts have been made to catalogue the wells before they vanish completely. Here we list some of West Cumbria's more famous holy wells. If you can name any more, do let us know:
St Catherine's Well, Eskdale
ST Catherine's Well in the magnificent Eskdale Valley appears to have been the host of an annual fair known as the Dogskin fair, held on the Saint's day (November 25). Further details have proved elusive, but there may be some connection with the Catty Fair held at St Catherine's Church on the same day. Then, yarn used to be hung on the churchyard wall. The well is less than quarter of a mile from the church, and it is unlikely the area supported two fairs on the same day.
Legend has it that in the Sixth Century a hermit lived on Arment Hill -- quarter of a mile east of the parish church of Saint Catherine. People used to travel miles to seek his prayers and healing.
St Catherine's Well was excavated by the Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological and Antiquities Society in 1925, under the auspices of Mary Fair.
For a while the well water was used for baptisms but within a few years of the excavation, it had once more become overgrown.
Its precise location is now unclear but Eskdale's Local History Society is holding a holy well walk on Monday, March 29 when it is hoped the site will be rediscovered. If you wish to join the walk, it starts at 6.30pm from St Catherine's Church, Eskdale.
Gosforth
Holy Well
THE well at Gosforth is still visible today. It is situated about half a mile from the church.
A tradition was recorded in 1884 from a former tenant of Gosforth Hall, West Cumbria, that at certain festivals (not specified) wine was poured in to a well and the people were encouraged to catch it as it came out of the spout -- though it must have been well diluted by then. At the time this story was told, the location of the well was lost. Old maps showed the ruins of a chapel about a half mile away from the present church, with the site of the well marked by it, but the well's position was added to the maps as a matter of tradition; there was no actual well on the site marked. It was only found again when the ruins of the chapel were excavated in 1901, for there was the well in the middle of the chapel, which was built symmetrically around the sacred spring. Today the ruins are virtually overgrown again, but the well is topped by a concrete slab with an inspection cover.
The water remains beautifully clear and the original stone work inside the well is still visible. A well at Bothel was said to have run blood on the day of Charles I's 'martyrdom'; this may be a memory of a similar kind of ceremony to the one at Gosforth.
Stanger Spa
STANGER Spa, near Cockermouth, is perhaps the most prominent spring still surviving thanks to some restoration work by the Cockermouth And District Civic Trust in 2000, which preserved the building surrounding it.
The well is a couple of miles south of Cockermouth and easily reached via a public footpath.
A plaque on the well records that the water was so famed for its curative properties in the mid-1800s that it was sold at 6d a bottle. However by 1901, Bulmer's History and Directory of Cumberland reported that the well is now very little frequented.
Physical or Physika Well
REFERENCE is made in Frizington Remembers by residents of Greenvale Court of a holy well near the village. Walks to Dub Beck at the foot of Steele Brow or to physical or physika well were popular during the summer holidays the book relates.
First published at 15:40, Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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Stannington Bells
On a late summer's evening, a group of us had a grand visit to the church at Stannington in Northumberland. For brief history of the church and bells, please see the earlier video
All 8 bells cast in 1934 by John Taylor & Co. Tenor bell weighs 30 cwt - 1 qtr - 16 lb and is in D♭.
There was supposed to be 18 bells in the chime. All the necessary frame work and fittings are there awaiting the 10 extra bells. Sadly, the project was left incomplete as a result of the untimely demise of the incumbent, Alfred George Dodderidge in 1934.
Thanks to John Richardson for letting us in, showing us around and letting us have a play!
Bell Ringing at Gosforth
Excerpt of bell ringing on the vintage Taylor ten (tenor 22–0–23 in E♭).
Originally a peal of eight bells hung in 1901, they were augmented to ten in 1920. The cost was borne out of the estate of Robert Whitfield Falconer, one of the original bell ringers at the church who fell at Thiepval, France on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1st July 1916).
The church is yet another R. J. Johnson Gothic Revival creation and dates from 1887.