[Bell Historians] Ebbw Vale

[Andrew Wilby]

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Having consulted another member of the touring party of 1968 who confirms t=
he story we think it was a quarter peal.
That would fit with APC's habits and inclinations at the time.

Are the QP records available?

I would hate to think that ,not only were we gullible in believing George T=
hoday, but APC was pulling everyones leg as well.

andrew
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From: Andrew Bull=20
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Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Ebbw Vale


Sorry to spoil a good story, but the Llandaff & Monmouth peal database (w=
hich contains details of ALL peals rung at Association towers) shows that P=
at Cannon rang three peals at Ebbw Vale - in 1968, 1970, 1971. He only rang=
the tenor once, to Superlative on 24 October 1970, in 3 hours 22 minutes. =
He never called a peal there.

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While serving in South Wales during and after WW2, he rang peals at Bridg=
end, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Pentre, Llanfrechfa and Llenelly (Gilwern), calli=
ng all but the Cardiff peal. He did call a fast peal of Bob Major on the he=
avy and difficult eight at Pentre.

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Andrew Bull

(Peal Recorder, Llandaff & Monmouth D.A.)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Wilby [mailto:andrew at w...]
Sent: 11 December 2003 22:40
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Bell Historians] Ebbw Vale

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Jim Hedgecock: <I remember there being a device to count the number of ti=
mes that the=20
tenor had struck - but it was 1971 when I rang there.>

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There is a story about the counter.....

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Pat Cannon was serving in S Wales during WW2 when the bann was lifted. =
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He took a band to Ebbw Vale and rang a peal of Plain Bob Major I think, b=
ut in a very quick time... possible less than 3 hours.

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Anyway the local tower captain took the view that Cannon had left a cours=
e or two out of this peal and had the counter made and fixed to the tenor s=
o that he could check in future. He was probably right.

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There is another story about another band that included Cannon ringing a =
peal there in the 60's.=20

A certain Mr Thoday calculated that the peal would include his 1 milliont=
h row in peal ringing and also that it would be a 65 roll-up.

I think we might have been a touch gullible but, never the less, George w=
as a big man with the stats so we worked out what the counter would read at=
the millionth row and set off.=20

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As we struck the landmark, a certain Mr Bonham on the 6th, mouth wide ope=
n, staring at the counter all agog, missed his dodge an consequently wrecke=
d the row.

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Thoday was incandescent. He ranted on about how many peals he had carried=
someone through and how now he had wrecked the highlight of his career... =
or some such rubbish.

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All very funny and did we laugh? You were allowed to enjoy yourself in p=
eals in those days.

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awrw

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