Stedman Cinques at St Mary le Bow, C London
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2021
- On Saturday, 31st July 2021, to mark the easing of restrictions brought on by the Coronavirus pandemic, the City of London played host to a Festival of Bells. Co-ordinated expertly by Dickon Love, the day brought together ringers from across the country, with a mixture of open towers, quarter peals, peals, and even a carillon recital available for attendees to participate in and/or listen to, as well as a welcome opportunity to socialise and catch up with friends after a year and a half of limited to no ringing or mixing.
The day commenced with the ringing of Great Paul at St Paul's Cathedral, and a quarter peal at St Mary le Bow, possibly the most famous ring of bells in the City. It is said you are a true Cockney only if you were born within earshot of these bells. Fittingly, the composition included Whittingtons - a reference to Dick Whittington, thrice Mayor of London, who (according to folklore, though sadly almost certainly untrue), turned back from fleeing the city upon hearing the Bow bells calling him.
The bells, although tough, sound magnificent. They were cast in 1956 by Mears & Stainbank of Whitechapel, but not hung until 1961. They replaced a previous ring of 12, with a 54cwt tenor, which were (mostly) recast by Gillett & Johnston in 1933, yet destroyed just eight years later during a German air raid on 11th May 1941. Whilst a couple of recordings do survive, one can only imagine how good this ring must really have sounded; a great loss. A full dossier of these may be found on Dickon's excellent website:
london.lovesguide.com/tower.ph...
Tenor 41-3-21 in C
With thanks to Ringer Jake for the audio footage, used from 0:00-0:44, filmed from outside the tower.
The Festival's Facebook Page may be found here:
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Absolutely beautiful, this is how bells should be rung, perfect striking, I was watch the chap who was ringing the no 11 bell, his is the the most perfect style of ringing I've ever seen in all my years of being a bellringer, well done to all the ringers that day, a perfectly rung quarter peal 👏👏
I could listen to them all day. They are superb!!
You don't know happy it makes me to see proper bellringing take place in England again! May they ring on!
Likely not as happy as I (and many others!) are to actually be taking part in proper bellringing again! ;-)
@@simonbellringer oh god no, i probably don't even come close! :)
What a stunning peal 🤩really, I’m speechless!
They are truly super bells. Amongst the best!
Simon, THANKYOU.
A peal of bells I love.
Brings joy and a touch of sadness to me.
It was Bill Theobald and my Dad Ernest J Rowe who hung these bells.
I have vivid memories in December 61 ( I was 8) of one evening going to Bow, dad and Theobald were doing finishing touches.
At the entrance to the belfry was a makeshift cabin for the BBC cameraman to use.
The tenor was up and there was a temporary hammer arranged on a vertical stand so that Prince Phillip could toll the bell to open the bells
They are a wonderful classic Whitechapel heavy 12.
It was such a shame that the pre war Gillett peal were destroyed, now they would have been the jewel in the crown.
Steve, I knew you would appreciate this. It is always a privilege to ring here. They are a truly superb heavy ring of bells, although I do wonder what might have been, had the G&J ring survived the Blitz.
@@simonbellringer I'm sad they didn't survive, Gillett bells are wonderful.
Have you rung at At James Clerkenwell?
They are a beautiful Gillett 8
Croydon Minister is a Gillett 12 where I have never rung.
@@simonbellringer i have a video from the belfry, I had 83k views, I added the link from your video to mine as that was some cracking and very well struck Stedman Cinques.
@@Steven_Rowe Croydon Minster is my 2nd home tower. Haven't rung all 12 since April of last year due to restoration work and the numbers haven't been worth getting the back 3 up yet.
@@Mr_SaltyChip I think Gilletts are gems
Unusual name the salty trainspotter.
No doubt you like trains like my beloved Gresley pacifics
Very good bells! Great video! Good job!!
AHH so nice to see you able to upload again. Been missing your uploads
Ahh, thank you, that's so nice to hear! I have 2 others to come from the Festival, and hopefully I'll be able to start filming and uploading again a bit more regularly now
The more I listen, the better it gets. Superb ringing!
Almost as good as Bishopsgate? ;-)
Good old Davo on the tenor!
Such was the rythm on the ringing the chap on the tenor might well have been ringing triples on his local eight bell hometower
Beautiful, just beautiful!
Thanks Paul, I am glad you approve! Good to meet you too, hopefully we can ring again together at some point :-)
@@simonbellringer I do! It was so good to be able to meet in person, even if I did miss you the first time round! I rang the 8 there on Saturday ruclips.net/video/ARuY6sqWON0/видео.html
@@simonbellringer the 11th and tenor have purple clappers
Solid piece of striking! Great to hear bells ringing again after Lockdown. Who was ringing in this touch?
Thanks Scott - was good to be back. Hope to see some from your band appearing again soon! The band details appear from 7:58
We're you ringing? I will upload a video of me ringing at the Ringing World National Youth Contest in Worcester in September 2021 with me ringing some bells in Worcester and the Cathedral.
Yes - I was privileged enough to be invited into this. I rang the 6 :-)
Will look forward to that - sadly I cannot make the Contest this year :-( Worcester Cathedral also sound amazing but are very tough. Definitely an experience!
@@simonbellringer that's OK.
Stop bending knees and bending forward otherwise excellent