Bellringers’ Quarrel
“Smoking and loose behaviour are still strictly frowned on in sacred buildings,” writes the seccretary of the Christchurch Cathedral Society of Bellringers (Mr G. N. Sloan) in a letter to the editor of “The Press" in which he comments on an attempt to establish a world bellringing record which failed because of an argument arising out of one man’s insistence on “smoking and pulling the rope with only one hand." “Your article on a bellringing record attempt at Loughborough is most interesting to campanologists, but it should be understood that the bells mentioned are not church bells, but a demonstration ring at J. Taylor’s foundry,” Mr Sloan says. “Even as an enthusiast, one cannot see the object of the attempt as the bells are very light, only a 6cwt tenor as against our Christchurch Cathedral’s 32cwt. It is interesting to note that these same changes were rung in the seventeenth century by a relay band,” he concludes.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28513, 17 February 1958, Page 12
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