2022 is the 70^th anniversary of The Queen’s accession to the throne in 1952.

For the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, as many St Andrew’s bell ringers as possible chose to ring on Coronation Day which was Thursday 2^nd June 2022.

Starting in rounds (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), bells were quickly swapped over to produce a change known as ‘Queen’s’.

This change was repeated exactly 70 times to mark each year of The Queen’s long reign.

The ‘Queen’s’ change is the odd bells followed by the even bells (1,3,5,7,2,4,6,8). It is a musical change said to have been given it’s name after Queen Elizabeth I overheard this series of changes and commented how much she liked it.

The bell ringers who took part were:

Tony Ammerlaan	Jane Harper	Clive Stephenson
Adam Carpenter	Angela Harvey	John Stephenson
Gavin Carpenter	Mark Lendon	Margaret Waller
Eileen Drew	Chris Pain	Lisa Wilson
Tina Gornall	Pauline Murray	Lionel Woods

A video recording of some of the ringing can be found on YouTube: 

On the following day, Friday 3^rd June, a full peal was organised on the ten bells of St Andrew’s.

We started at 10am and rang for 3 hours and 16 minutes to coincide with the Service of Thanksgiving held at St Paul’s at 11.30am.

Congratulations to Hayden Musham one of our young bell ringers who rang the tenor to his first peal for this occasion.

Full details of the peal are as follows:

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Our thanks go to Derek Stanbridge who sponsored our peal to the tune of £110, donated to St Andrew’s.

A recording of the last few minutes of the peal can be found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jYAh358BgWw  

Finally, as part of our church’s Jubilee celebrations, on Sunday 5^th June, a quarter peal was rung prior to Choral Evensong:

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