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
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Fastest peal
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Longest peal(s)
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Branch events here:
October 3, 2014 | Call Changes & Plain Hunt | |
February 15, 2014 | Branch Practice | |
December 8, 2012 | Christmas Celebration | |
March 2, 2012 | Rounds and Call Change Practice | |
February 15, 2012 | Branch Practice | |
October 17, 2009 | Newport Deanery - Learners Practice | |
February 13, 2009 | Branch Practice | Note change from usual date |
June 15, 2007 | 6-bell striking competition | |
April 8, 2005 | Beginners Striking Competition | |
August 20, 2004 | Branch Practice | |
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Description | Removal of the bells |
Approx Date | 1901 |
Full report | ..new bell presented in 1899 by Campbell G Hulton Esq. of Birkdale, Southport. (Sams there since 1878) |
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Who has circled the tower to peals:
Frederick J Mynard |
Frederick W Booth |
Who has rung the most peals here:
Frederick J Mynard | 32 | June 23, 1923 |
William Freeman | 25 | June 5, 1922 |
John Lovell | 24 | December 6, 1919 |
Edwin S Mynard | 18 | October 10, 1922 |
Charles W Clarke | 17 | April 9, 1928 |
Frederick W Booth | 15 | January 28, 1922 |
Ernest G Mynard | 12 | October 10, 1922 |
William Sharp | 9 | February 25, 1928 |
William Mynard | 7 | November 15, 1906 |
Henry W Gayton | 5 | April 9, 1928 |
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1 | E | | Flat of E by 15 cents | - - | 26 | Taylor Loughborough in 1901 |
2 | D | | Flat of D by 13 cents | - - | 27¾ | Taylor Oxford in 1839 |
3 | C | | Flat of C by 8 cents | - - | 29½ | Taylor Oxford in 1839 |
4 | B | | Flat of B by 12 cents | - - | 30½ | Taylor Oxford in 1839 |
5 | A | | Flat of A by 2 cents | - - | 35¼ | Taylor Oxford in 1839 |
6 | G | Dove | Flat of G by 4 cents | 9 - 0 - 18 | 39 | Taylor Oxford in 1839 |
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 6, John Taylor & Co, 1899 | 1 of 6, John Taylor & Co, 1901 |
1 of 5, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 2 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 2 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 |
2 of 5, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 3 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 3 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 |
3 of 5, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 4 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 4 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 |
4 of 5, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 5 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 5 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 |
5 of 5, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 6 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 | 6 of 6, W & J Taylor, 1839 |
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Bellframes Type 8.3.C - e |
Cast iron "H" castings mounted on beams and braced at the top |
Taylor of Loughborough 1889-1893 (wooden beams with wooden top bracing), 1893 (fabricated beams), 1894 (cast iron beams), and 1892 to date (girders) Gillett & Johnston of Croydon 1907-1955 James Barwell of Birmingham 1910-1915 Mears & Stainbank (Whitechapel) c1920-1935 James Grove of Birmingham 1923 |
Classification from "Bellframes - A Practical Guide to Inspection and Recording - C J Pickford 1993"
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