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• Early Wheel Development
  ...8 wheel, extending approx. 225° from the vertical round to just beyond the bell mouth – and it is likely that this was the form of wheel in use for much ...w' it but control was limited. The effect was rather like ringing a modern bell up without touching the sally. It seems likely, if not certain, that Rounds
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• The Belfry Forums
  ...f all levels for the benefit of all and provide a permanent and searchable history of useful discussions to do with ringing, and a place for anyone to ask any *[[Central Council of Church Bell Ringers]] (CCCBR)
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• Old Societies
  ...st Morris - "This is the oldest local company of the present day".<ref>The History and Art of Change Ringing by Ernest Morris 1931 P141</ref> The origins of the Society are lost in history but there are references to its establishment in 1672 and it may well be th
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• A History of Nursery Rhymes
  ...Rhymes">[http://archive.org/stream/ahistoryofnurser24065gut/24065-8.txt A History of Nursery Rhymes by Percy B Green]</ref> I'm sure I don't know, tolled the big bell at [[Wikipedia:St Mary-le-Bow|Bow]].
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• County histories
  |||Catermole, P., ''Church bells and bell-ringing: a Norfolk profile'' (1990) |||Jennings, T.S., ''History of Staffordshire Bells'' (1970)
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• Central Council Decisions
  ...d to be the custodians of the decisions. Accommodating 400 year of ringing history, and the wishes, desires and strong opinions of ringers with many different ::B. Classification of methods with one hunt bell
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• Ringing in books
  ...shocked survivor of the first world war and amateur detective, but an able bell ringer. He turns his skill and knowledge to account to solve the mysteries ...e Suffolk Guild library contains 15 different titles of fiction and social history, but not all of these are in print or readily available second hand - I hav
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• Project Pickled Egg - Part 1
  ...silk purse out of a sow’s ear, although some have made admirable attempts. History has got us to the point where most ringers of Surprise Major have the basic ST MARTIN'S GUILD OF CHURCH BELL RINGERS
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• Ring Out, Wild Bells
  ...G. G., and Martin Crossley Evans, ''I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School'' (James & James, London, 2002, ISBN 0-907383-92-0), p. Manchester Town Hall's hour bell, called 'Great Abel' after the Town Clerk, Abel Heywood, who oversaw the co
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• Points from Long Length Tower Bell Peals
  ...n from published sources such as ''The Ringing World'', its forerunners (''Bell News'' and ''Church Bells'') and databases like ''PealBase'' and those prov My focus was only on long tower bell peals and the criteria for their inclusion were that they must be 10,000 or
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• University of London Society of Change Ringers
  ...The ropes were rotten at the top so, because we couldn’t afford new proper bell ropes, I obtained a large amount of hemp rope from a chandler in Dockland t ...h Bill Simpson on the tenor (he was in fact one of the highest rated heavy bell ringers in the country at that time).
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• Notable Achievements
  ...peals - this being '''the first and only ringer to conduct over 200 tower bell peals in a single year'''. The only other time the 200 mark has been surpas ...berdare (including one of his own). He has gained all 4 badges in the STA bell club awards scheme and is working towards the S&B DGBR profiency certificat
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• Compositions of the Decade 2000-2009 - 5 - Major
  Quite simply, things have got better and better for eight bell compositions over the decade. ...ht caricature, but for the last quarter of the 20th century much (most?) 8-bell ringing was objectionable. There was a preponderance of mediocre compositi
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