Change ringing in eastern Breconshire before the First World War, with especial reference to peal ringing at Glasbury

Lewis, Colin A

Title: Change ringing in eastern Breconshire before the First World War, with especial reference to peal ringing at Glasbury
Creator: Lewis, Colin A
Date Issued: 2010
Date: 2010
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6191
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012397
Identifier: http://www.brecknocksociety.co.uk/society.htm
Description: This paper discusses the development of change ringing in eastern Breconshire before the start of the First World War in 19 14, with special reference to peal ringing at Glasbury. Since the men who rang peals there, prior to that war, came from other towers as well as from Glasbury, brief mention is made of ringing at those towers and of members of those towers who rang peals at Glasbury. The towers discussed include Talgarth, Bronllys, Brecon, Llanelli (named Llanelly on Ordnance Survey maps) and Builth Wells, which were in the Diocese of St David's at that time, and centres in Herefordshire which were in the Diocese of Hereford. Attention is also paid to the role of the Hereford Diocesan Guild of Bellringers and of the peripatetic instructors employed by that Guild. An excellent introduction toringing is provided by R. J. Johnston's Bell-Ringing; the English Art of Change-Ringing (Viking, 1986), while the web-site of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (www.cccbr.org.uk) is also informative.
Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He was the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa for 20 years.
Format: 22 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Brecknock Society and Museum Friends
Language: English
Relation: Lewis, C.A. (2010) Change ringing in eastern Breconshire before the First World War, with especial reference to peal ringing at Glasbury. Brycheiniog, 41 . pp. 31-50. ISSN 0407-5307. Available: : http://www.brecknocksociety.co.uk/society.htm
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