[Bell Historians] Upper Beeding

Mon Mar 3 11:08:41 GMT 2008

I rang at Upper Beeding in October last year, and was surprised to discover that they have been an eight since 1897. At the time of my visit, something was said by a local about a possible reversion to six.

  The project sounds like a good idea to me! I thought the ringing chamber was one of the most uncomfortably cramped that I've encountered, and that the bells didn't go particularly well either. The front four of the future six would certainly benefit from a good tuning. The two tenors are medieval. I look forward to ringing them in their restored state.

Alan Buswell <aaj.buswell at a9JaxxGx31iCI3-05J_pEcyTDD_dKXpg47kQbBP7BhfwrPOhlCdPUKTlrkhoKLRJU2R9lLLOs7MuuwmSlHhbj1M.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
            Doesn't anyone read the RW these days?! The tower is Upper Beeding in West Sussex. It's interesting to note that few quarter peals are rung here. Rehung in 1980 after a 10 year silence.

  AAJB
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                And a footnote to a peal (p242) "This was the last peal on the eight bells. The peal is being reverted back to a ring of six, the front four of which are to be retuned." Any connection?

  Which tower are we talking here?

  David 

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