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Ypres Bells in Dorset SALISBURY DIOCESAN GUILD OF RINGERS NEWSLETTER Autumn 2017 Number 151 YPRES BELLS IN DORSET In this issue: From the 1 President Great War 1 Guild Striking 4 Competitions Open Day 5 Dean of 5 Salisbury Engagement 6 with Public Young Ringers 8 Education 11 Safeguarding 13 Calne News 15 Devizes News 16 Dorchester 18 News East Dorset Picture: Paul Tyson 19 News Marlborough 21 News Summer fun Mere News 22 Salisbury 22 News for Young West Dorset 23 News Odd bells out 24 Ringers Obituaries 25 Calendar 28 ... a young ringer on his box! Deadline for A Striking the next issue: 1 February success for 2018 Corsley [email protected] (and Wimborne too!) FACE TO FACE NEWSLETTER – AUTUMN 2017 maintenance, but, worse still, what if From the President someone is taken ill, up the tower, requiring specialist evacuation. Narrow As I look into my garden the leaves, spiral stairways make the use of most of which are glorious in their stretchers impossible so the only option autumn colours, I can hardly believe is to take them through the floor. We another year is coming to an end. By the need to engage more with the church by time you receive this edition of the Face having representation on the PCC to put to Face we will be into November and forward our concerns and get the ringers Quarter peal week with Christmas and a voice heard outside the ringing room. New Year hard on its heels. We‟ve been “sitting in our Ivory towers for too long”!! Most members of the I have not been able to attend as many public have no knowledge of what meeting and practices this year as I had happens in the ringing room, in fact hoped to but I have managed to attend many people still believe a recording of several services of rededication within bells is played. I think it is time to the Guild. These were all such happy educate the public and show we are and uplifting occasions and all attended proud of our art, if we want to secure and led by senior members of the clergy. the future of bell ringing for future The bells of Stourton were rededicated generations. Judith Williamson by the Bishop of Salisbury, our Patron and also a ringer, who joined us for a Editorial Note ring before the service. Shroton (Iwerne Courtney) came next where we were It is a great sadness to us all that Jerry graced by the presence of the Bishop of Holmes, our Face to Face Editor, died on Sherborne, not herself a ringer but a 9 October. He had cancer. Jerry was a keen supporter. You may remember that loyal Sunday service ringer at she preached at the Guild Festival earlier Gillingham, Mere Branch Treasurer as this year. Then just a few weeks ago the well as Editor of this newsletter since Guild Master, Robert and I attended the Summer 2016. Our thoughts and rededication of the bells at Savernake, prayers go to Jerry‟s family at this sad another happy day and this one led by time. As Guild Publicity Officer I have the Bishop of Ramsbury. Each of these stepped in as acting Editor. I was not events are a tribute to the locals who able to access Jerry‟s in-box, so some have worked tirelessly to get their bells material sent to him may not appear – improved for ringing. apologies for that. Please continue to send material for publication to But, we do need to remember that the [email protected] and note that the bells we love to ring are Church Deadline for the next issue is 1 property. We come to our churches to February 2018. Robert Wellen ring, often letting ourselves into the building, long before clergy or Guild News congregation arrive and then, in most cases, leave before the service begins. From Robert Wellen, Guild Publicity This all set me thinking what role we Officer: play in the work of our Churches, we call the people to worship, ring for Great War Commemorations celebrations and for remembrance but what contribution do we make to the The fine tower at St George‟s Memorial overall work of our churches. We are Church in Ypres, Belgium was originally quick to criticise when our local PCC intended to house a peal of English decide to put in a kitchen and loo under change ringing bells, although this was the tower blocking the trap door put in never realised. This intention will now be to allow the bells to be lowered for fulfilled by the installation of a new peal of eight bells, which have now been cast - 1 - FACE TO FACE NEWSLETTER – AUTUMN 2017 Surprise Minor Lytchett Rang bells to a Matravers Mexican wave 5040 Surprise 26 Aug Shroton Minor (5 Methods) Blandford 1260 Grandsire Forum Triples Wimborne 1287 Stedman 27 Aug Minster Cinques Ringing at 12 Ypres Bells on display at Taylor’s Bell Bourton Foundry (picture: Stephen Turpin) noon Burton Ringing at 11 28 Aug by Taylors and hung in the tower and Bradstock a.m. will be dedicated in October. Between David Close has written concerning a Friday 25 August and Monday 28 local family connection to the new Ypres August, en route to Belgium, these bells 5th bell: “Michael Fowle is the great were on display at The Great Dorset grandson of Thomas who was Steam Fair on the Thornycroft and responsible for the repairs to St Nicolas Dennis Lorries that delivered them to Chute, and the building of St Mary’s, Ypres. Chute Forest together with the ring of six cast in 1871. Michael contributed towards the cost of the ring for Ypres, and the dedications on this bell includes Michael Randolph Fowle who died 24th October 1914 near Ypres, and is remembered on the Menin Gate. He was a son of William Fowle to whom the third at Chute is dedicated, and therefore would have been Michael’s uncle, but died 34 years previous. We rang a half muffled quarter on 24th Oct 2014 at Chute in memory, with many of the Ypres Bells leaving the Foundry (picture: Fowle family attending the short prayer Alan Regin) service”. To mark the presence of these special Gillian Richards wrote regarding the bells in our Guild, the following ringing ringing on Brownsea Island: “our ringing took place: also commemorated two young men 240 Grandsire who had connections with the island and Mere Doubles who were killed at Ypres. Baden-Powell Call changes ran his 'experimental camp' in 1907 on Brownsea. The two young men killed at 24 Aug (Kings, Brownsea Queens, Ypres took part in the camp and went on Island Backwards to join the army as officers”. rounds and Titums) The following ringers who died in the Great War have been commemorated: 5058 Yorkshire Bryanston Surprise Major Private William Frank Ford 1296 Plain Bob 25 Aug Kingston (Sturminster Marshall) Died: 11 July Caters 1917. Sturminster Marshall, Dorset. 11 South 5040 July 2017. Quarter Peal of 1260 St Newton Cambridge Simon's Bob Doubles. Rung half - 2 - FACE TO FACE NEWSLETTER – AUTUMN 2017 muffled to mark 100 years since the The picture of Private Mitchell hanging in death of William Frank Ford, a loyal the Swanage ringing chamber (picture: Sturminster Marshall ringer who died in Sally Jenkins) action in WW1 exactly 100 years ago today, aged 21. Private Joseph Harper Thorne (Amesbury) Died: 19 August 1917. Private Fred Forsyth (Bournemouth St Albert Spreadbury writes: “Private John) Died: 24 July 1917. Maiden Joseph Harper-Thorne was born in Great Bradley, Wiltshire. 24 July 2017. Durnford in 1888. Joseph was a member Quarter Peal of 1260 Plain Bob of the church choir and ringer at Doubles. Dedicated to the memory of Amesbury. Joseph initially enlisted with Private Fred Forsyth, a ringer at the 6th Battalion Duke of Cornwall Bournemouth (St John the Evangelist) Regiment in Salisbury but then and a member of the Salisbury DG who transferred to the 2nd Battalion died on 24/07/1917 age 35. He was Hampshire Regiment. The Hampshire born and baptised in Maiden Bradley, the Regiment had been involved in Gallipoli son of Albert Forsyth and Elizabeth but after being withdrawn was sent to Forsyth of Maiden Bradley. France in March 1916. On 19th August 1917 Joseph suffered a severe gunshot Private Harry Mitchell (Swanage) wound to the neck from which he died Died: 31 July 1917. Swanage, Dorset. quickly. He was buried in the Etaples 31 July 2017. A Quarter Peal of 1260 Military Cemetery at Pas de Calais. On Grandsire Triples. Rung half muffled in Sunday 20th August 2017 six Amesbury memory of Private Harry Mitchell, ringers rang 30 minutes of rounds and Service No 29947, Somerset Light call changes to commemorate Joseph’s Infantry "A" Coy, 8th Bn, who was killed death.” on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele, 31st July 1917, aged 27. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (panel 21). Harry Mitchell was a Swanage bell ringer, the son of Clifford and Maria Mitchell of Cornwall Villa, Queen's Road East, Swanage. According to a contemporary account (also displayed in the ringing room) “a deeply impressive as well as interesting ceremony took place in the belfry ... when a large framed photograph of Harry Mitchell was dedicated.” LtoR: Barbara Maddocks, Peter Banting, Karen Johnson, Brian Johnson, Colin Maddocks and behind the camera Albert Spreadbury. Private William Read (Preston) Died: 31 August 1917. Preston, Dorset. 31 August 2017. A Quarter Peal of 1376 Bristol Surprise Major. Rung to mark the death, 100 years ago today in World War 1, of local soldier Private William Read, Dorsetshire Regiment 2nd Battalion.
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