Main Branch site:
The Branch web site contains up to date information about ringing in North Bucks. Much of the information formerly in this site can now be found there.
Latest on this site:
Correction of Old Bradwell harmonics and trapezoid measurements and addition of inscriptions and photos of bells - April 2025
Adjustment of trapezoid image scaling to show top of long waisted bells - April 2025
New photos of Emberton's bells, treble inscription and 1899-1901 timeline adjusted - May 2025
|
| |
Fastest peal
|
Longest peal(s)
|
Branch events here:
| September 26, 2015 | Half Yearly Meeting | |
| May 1, 2015 | Call Changes & Plain Hunt | |
| June 8, 2013 | Summer Social and Striking Competition | |
| May 22, 2010 | Branch Practice | Note 4th Saturday |
| December 15, 2007 | Christmas Celebration | Bring your own drinks - no alcohol! |
| March 4, 2006 | AGM | |
| December 6, 2003 | Quarterly Meeting | |
| April 20, 2001 | Branch Practice | Special Method: London Surprise Minor |
|
 |
| Description | The new 4th is hung |
| Approx Date | 1981 |
| Full report | |
|
|
|
Who has circled the tower to peals:
Who has rung the most peals here:
| William J French | 8 | October 21, 1949 |
| Alexander Coley | 8 | February 6, 1932 |
| Thomas C Walters | 8 | August 10, 1948 |
| Edward Whitlock | 7 | February 14, 1931 |
| Archie J Lathall | 6 | October 21, 1949 |
| Charles G Alderman | 5 | February 1, 1936 |
| J Edward Whitlock | 4 | August 10, 1948 |
| David C Ockwell | 3 | January 25, 1987 |
| Martin R Petchey | 3 | January 25, 1987 |
| David J Maybrey | 3 | January 25, 1987 |
|
| 1 | F# | Dove | Flat of F#/Gb by 20 cents | 2 - 2 - 24 | 24 | Michael de Wymbis in 1310 |
| 2 | E | Dove | Flat of E by 21 cents | 3 - 0 - 25 | 25⅛ | Michael de Wymbis in 1310 |
| 3 | D | Dove | Sharp of D by 12 cents | 4 - 1 - 22 | 27⅝ | Alfred Bowell in 1909 |
| 4 | C# | Dove | Sharp of C#/Db by 15 cents | 4 - 2 - 20 | 29¼ | M & S in 1981 |
| 5 | B | Dove | Sharp of B by 23 cents | 6 - 1 - 22 | 32 9/16 | Alfred Bowell in 1909 |
| 6 | A | Dove | Sharp of A by 14 cents | 7 - 1 - 16 | 24½ | Alfred Bowell in 1909 |
The figures below show the difference, in cents, between each bell and what it should be to be in tune with the tenor.
A positive figure shows that the bell is sharp, a negative figure shows that it is flat. There are 100 cents between notes on the scale.
History of bells in this tower:
| 1 of 4, Michael de Wymbish, 1300 | 1 of 6, Michael de Wymbish, 1300 | 1 of 6, Michael de Wymbish, 1300 |
| 2 of 4, Michael de Wymbish, 1300 | 2 of 6, Michael de Wymbish, 1300 | 2 of 6, Michael de Wymbish, 1300 |
| 3 of 4, Richard III Chandler, 1700 | 3 of 6, Alfred Bowell, 1909 | 3 of 6, Alfred Bowell, 1909 |
| 4 of 4, London ('Balcombe shield'), 1500 | 4 of 6, London ('Balcombe shield'), 1500 | 4 of 6, Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd, 1981 |
| | 5 of 6, Alfred Bowell, 1909 | 5 of 6, Alfred Bowell, 1909 |
| | 6 of 6, Alfred Bowell, 1909 | 6 of 6, Alfred Bowell, 1909 |
|
 |
| Bellframes Type 8.1.C - a |
| Double "X" braced frame |
Day of Eye 1886
James Shaw of Bradford 1892
Whites of Appleton 1900-1910 (?)
Mears & Stainbank 1906-1910
Bowell of Ipswich 1908-1939 |
Classification from "Bellframes - A Practical Guide to Inspection and Recording - C J Pickford 1993"
|
|