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Striking Competition Winners table
Winners of the branch striking competition and in brackets the position in the Croome
trophy, if the year is underlined their are pictures.
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An update was published in the Branch April 2019 Newsletter about the
Almondsbury bells with a couple of pictures
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There is an article in the November 2018 Branch Newsletter about the
Almondsbury
bells, click
October 5th 2018.
Almondsbury bells were rung for the last time
yesterday, 1 October. The ropes come off today and the bells go away next
Monday, 8 October. We expect them back sometime in mid-January but don't yet
have an exact date.
Adam Mead
The pictures below are from the BBC
coverage of the removal of the bells for which we ar indebted.
Information
sent by Adam Mead.
Eight bells, weighing a total of nearly five tonnes and dating back to the
1600s, have been removed from a church tower.
Its the first time since 1903
that the bells at St Mary's Church in Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire, have
been serviced.
No hydraulics or machinery were used during the operation,
just chains and pulleys.
Local fundraising has topped up a Heritage Lottery
Fund grant of £65,000.
Steeple-keeper Gerry Anniss said the removal marked a
milestone
in a two-and-a-half year project which has cost nearly £100,000.
"In 2005
we had all the [bell] clappers exchanged for new ones and we realised we needed
more work done so set a target of 2020," he said.
"We were told bits of metal
from the original casting were still in the bells and rusting away which made
them liable to crack... leading to a recast which would have been a lot more
expensive."
Almondsbury
have been conducting a local recruitment campaign
the press came along and put an article in the local papers.
The picture
accompanied the article.
For a report on this see the
April 2011 newsletter.
The Striking Competition Team 2009 at
Kelston.
Almondsbury represented Rural Branch in the
Croome trophy after winning the 2008 Branch striking
competition at Marshfield. Whilst not winning the Croome trophy they were
awarded one of the
G & B ringing masters trophies a 'Ring Masters Clapper ' for an extremely good
performance.
Below are three of the team members holding the branch trophy and the ringing
master's clapper.
Below is a picture of the team on the day. Below is a picture of the team on the
day.
To see a report of the G & B AGM in the May 2008 newsletter
click here
Rural Branch Striking Competition Marshfield 2008.
Tim Jefferis of Almondsbury collects the winners trophy from the judge Ian Hill
of City Branch,
the winning Almondsbury team who will represent Rural
Branch in the Croome trophy.
November 2006
Don Haskins presentation for 70 years dedication to
ringing, most of them in Almondsbury tower.
To see an article sent in by
Clare Jefferis of Almondsbury on the presentation ceremony in November 2006 see the February 2007
Rural Branch Newsletter
Click here
I hope to add a picture of the plaque at a later time, I have
one but cannot make the print sufficiently clear
January 1st 2000 12.00 ringers
The day the BBC came to Almondsbury
Striking Competition Band 2000
Placed second out of eight teams
Striking Competition Winners table
Winners of the branch striking competition and in brackets the position in the Croome
trophy, if the year is underlined their are pictures.
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