Ringer Ollie, the 15 year old bellringer from Sussex
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Today I am in Balcombe in West Sussex at St Mary's Church talking to Ollie Watson, AKA Ringer Ollie, a young lad of fifteen whose passion is bell ringing.
Ollie started when ringing church bells when he was eight years old and has worked his way up the ranks to Vice Captain of the Tower. He loves nothing better than scrambling about the ancient bell towers of Sussex examining and help maintaining the bells, as well as ringing them of course!
Ollie has a RUclips Channel where you can find him ring bells with many of his ringing chums. Check it out here:
/ @tittums
-------------------------------------------------------------------
PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER
My videos are funded by people like you. If you enjoy them, please help me make more:
Visit BaldExplorer.com to become a patron.
Or make a one off donation www.paypal.me/...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
CAMERA GEAR USED IN MY PRODUCTIONS
Canon D200 : amzn.to/2RZ9Nta
Zoom Field Recorder F1 : amzn.to/2RGQqpG
Zyiun Smooth 3 Gimbal: amzn.to/2ubm3rA
GoPro Hero range: amzn.to/2wv8FiN
Rode Lavalier Mic: amzn.to/2vu3kst
Rode Smartphone mic: amzn.to/2vXE3Kr
Zoom H4n: amzn.to/2vXZuu6
Tascam DR-60Mk2: amzn.to/2eKEg9y
My children's books are here: richardvobes.com/
That was great, I love the sound of ringing bells. It's amazing how he's been doing it since 8 years of age! that was a nice chat, well done you two 👍
I started when I was 9 and now i’m 12
It's great that people have such interesting hobbies.
@@RichardVobes nice vid
Excellent Richard and what a nice young man Ollie is
Thanks Kevin. A lovely intelligent young man to interview.
hi, Ollie! how fantastic that you found a passion so young! my nephew enjoyed ballet, even performing in The Nutcracker for Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center. unfortunately, he was teased and ended up giving it up. i'm not sure how much he misses it.
thank you, Ollie and Richard!
It is dreadful when people tease you about your interests.
Very interesting thank you for sharing. Bell's ringing is one of the many things I miss not living in UK anymore
Yes, it is amazing what you miss when you are no longer there.
I’ve recently started bell ringing at my local church. The tower has a lovely spiral staircase up to the bells, but there’s not as much room around them as this. We baffle the bells for practice, it avoids disturbing the neighbours. I wish I was 15!
Well done Sue! How lovely, I do like a good spiral staircase. Oh yes, I am sure we all wish we were 15 again.
Very interested interview with ringer Ollie nice that saw bells Richard and start age 8 great time to start great video Richard
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed this. It's good to see youngsters taking part in traditional activities. As when these things are gone, they will be gone forever and our culture has to be preserved..It's great to premote them to the young.
Olie was very knowledgeable and confident. Well done.
Im a 13 year old bell ringer and I've been ringing from October and I started it in the family.
Great stuff! There are quite a few of us bellringers and I have seen lots of young ringers in my seven years of ringing. Ringing is very social and nearly always involves the local pub. There are lots of Tower Tours too, where you try out several towers bells in one day...and then visit the pub for a slap up meal. Ringing in the New Year is lovely, with a mince pie and a flask or two of mulled wine 🙂
Sounds fabulous.`
Thanks Richard and Ollie. So good to see a young man so enthusiastic about other things other than screens and football. I live the sound of bells, we have a keen bunch of ringers here in the village. Mind you some have been known to complain about the noise! 😏.
There always those that complain. Thanks so much Linda.
Wow Im impressed! Such an intelligent young man carrying on the traditions of bell ringing in to the future. I will look forward to other videos with you and Ollie! All the boys at my daughters school are apparently stupid and immature according to her. 😂
Ollie was great and really knew his stuff. I am looking forward to a few more outings with him showing me the local area.
Favourite bell ringing story,when Laurel & Hardy came over to Britain,as there ship approached Southampton they could hear something! When they got nearer they realised that all the church bells were playing there theme tune!! Must have taken a lot of practice to set that up?!
Blimey - that must have taken some organising.
I can identify with Ollie, I too always had an interest in clock chimes and the like. I started church bell ringing 33 years ago when I was 14 in Liss Hampshire where you also made a video or two! I particularly enjoyed those videos too by the way! :)
Must look at the Hamphire churches in more detail.
@@RichardVobes Needless to say there are some wonderful ones there! Was the tower captain's name John Moore by any chance? I know him through through another hobby "vintage valve radios" and when I found out he was a ringer we rang together a few times.
George's right.... very nice chat. Well done Vobey, best part of my day.
Thanks Jeff - very kind.
What a great chap Ollie is - always good to see young people carrying on the traditions. At the recent heritage open days, the bell ringers at St John’s Redhill opened up their ringing chamber to ‘have a go’ - it’s quite therapeutic! (I did look at their ringing charts, it’s interesting to see that Ollie says he’s not into maths, it looks very scientific and mathematical to me!)
Yes looks very complicated to me too - but I get like anything else you get used to it.
Great film and interesting to see the mechanics of bell ringing (hope your ears have recovered!)
Thanks very much. Yes, thanks - ears have recovered.
a fabulous young man,,applause .
Indeed - thanks Dean.
Fascinating..thanks
Ollie is amazing (as was this video, and your head for heights!) I've always been tempted to try bell ringing, but have not tried. I know my local church practices on Friday nights...
Where is your local church? Bell ringers (almost) always want more ringers to join their band
@@FrancescoBellringer St Peter's & St Paul's, Tonbridge.
Nigel Sadler These are the bells at Tondridge ruclips.net/video/JP9Z1vpzLE8/видео.html You should try ringing someday. I’m sure they’d be welcoming
You should give it a go.
Always so good to see the young ones carrying on the old traditions! That must have been quit deafening up in the tower when that bell was ringing though?🔔
It was rather loud, but not as loud as I thought - I have filmed cannons firing and they are much louder.
@@RichardVobes so they didn't "ring your bell" then?!?!😅🧀
Takes a brave man to go up among the bells, One church I was in you had to go up a vertical wood ladder bolted to the wall to get up to the bells. No Health and safety at the time
I have been up some rickety ladders in bell towers in my time.
I most certainly don't wish I was fifteen again...all that teenaged angst and uncertainty...Most of us weren't quite as well balanced as Ollie!
Another good'un Richard!
Dave
Thanks Dave for watching, sir! No I wouldn't want to be a teenager in this day and age.
Great video 👍🏻
Cheers Tom
Brilliant video. Loved it.
Thanks so much.
I started ringing when I was about thirteen years old, about four lads in our class at school did also.
Fabulous!
That was a great Video , .
Thanks so much Ann
Enjoyable video. I hope Olley wears ear protection.
Will he be ringing Great Tom bell?
I'm Vice-captain at my tower and I am your age!!
Well done.
The bells were cast in 1936 by Gillett & Johnston , well 7 were. That is 12 3 4 5 6 and 8
No 7 dates back to 1628 and I totally agree with Ollie , it sounds out of place and they should have cast 8 bells
That's a lot of bells.
@@RichardVobes 8 is very common as is 6 But many 10s an 12s to
Recasting it wouldn’t have been possible as I’m pretty sure it’s a listed bell (Ollie may have even said in the vid, can’t remember). When my tower at Pulborough we’re restored, the original Eldridge fourth couldn’t be retuned so now if hangs in its own frame with an electric hammer, whilst a new 4th was Cast by Taylors Eare & Smith (Now Just Taylors)
London Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Think it's closing.It has closed. After 450 years.
Yes all closed now.
Hello. My internet's been down
Hope it is back up and running!
I hope Ollie wears ear protection.
IM 14 AND RING
WHERES MY VIDEO 😭
Ah I see what Ollie means by the rope sort of goes through the ladder
He explained it all very well. Thanks for watching.
Young ringers are not that rare