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St Mary, Egremont: bell ringing
locality type:-   ring of bells

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BWK63.jpg  Bell ropes.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK57.jpg  Access.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
Dove data:-  
 scale:-
F sharp, G sharp, A sharp, B, C sharp, D sharp, E sharp, F sharp
Complete octave; intervals TTSTTTS; F sharp major.
Bells cast by John Taylor and Co, 1902. There is an unused bell, cast about 1400.

Dove 2009
www.dove.cccbr.org.uk

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BWK56.jpg  Old bell:-
"STEPHANUS IHONSON ET IHOHNE~ES PRESTE ET ALII PEROCHIANI ME FIERI FECURUNT" Cast about 1380-1420.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
MN photo:-  
 Peal boards

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BWK61.jpg  Peal of 5040 changes of Plain Bob Minor, 6 January 1916.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK40.jpg  Peal of 5008 changes of Bob Major, 7 May 1921.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK60.jpg  Peal of 5040 changes of Grandsire Triples 26 November 1928; and 5040 changes of Cambridge Surprise Minor, 19 November 1929; in memory of World War I.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK58.jpg  Peal of 5040 changes of Steadman Triples, 30 October 1935; and 5040 muffled changes of Grandsire Triples, for the death of George V, rung 3 February 1936.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK62.jpg  Peal of 5056 changes of Plain Bob Major, 18 July 1953.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK42.jpg  Peal of 5040 changes of Plain Bob Minor, celebrating the investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1 July 1969.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK41.jpg  Ring in 2000, for the millennium, 1 January 2000.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK43.jpg  Quarter peal, 1260 changes of Bob Triples, to commemorate PC Bill Barker, drowned in the floods, Workington, 9 December 2009
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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