{"id":158,"date":"2014-05-20T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=158"},"modified":"2016-01-30T22:30:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:30:33","slug":"first-peal-on-new-ninth-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2014\/05\/20\/first-peal-on-new-ninth-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"First Peal on New Ninth Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 17<sup>th<\/sup> May 2014 starting at 1pm, the first peal on\u00a0the new ninth bell was successfully completed in 3 hours\u00a0and 12 minutes. The method was Grandsire Caters and the\u00a0new bell was rung by Clive Stephenson who also conducted\u00a0the peal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new bell was cast in memory of Frank Gant and Colin\u00a0Wright and many of the band can remember ringing with\u00a0Frank and Colin even though it was a long time ago. Indeed\u00a0Frank Gant taught Clive to ring in 1974 when he was 14 and\u00a0also taught Peter Sippitt to ring in 1962 when he was just 12.<\/p>\n<p>After ringing the tenor to the peal, Peter recalled how, having\u00a0lost his father at the age of 11, Frank became a welcome mentor\u00a0and companion who took him out regularly to ring at other local\u00a0practices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><b>The Essex Association<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><b>HORNCHURCH<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><b>St Andrew<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sat May 17, 3h12 (18cwt)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><b><i>5039 Grandsire Caters<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comp. J. Carter<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>David L Sparling<\/li>\n<li>Paul J Bloomfield<\/li>\n<li>Jillian Laken<\/li>\n<li>Owen C R Webster<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Ellisdon<\/li>\n<li>David E Rothera<\/li>\n<li>Simon J O Head<\/li>\n<li>William J Stungo<\/li>\n<li>Clive J Stephenson (c)<\/li>\n<li>Peter J Sippitt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>First peal since the installation of the new ninth bell in January<\/p>\n<p>Rung as a tribute to Frank Gant and Colin Wright by some\u00a0of their ringing friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 17th May 2014 starting at 1pm, the first peal on\u00a0the new ninth bell was successfully completed in 3 hours\u00a0and 12 minutes. The method was Grandsire Caters and the\u00a0new bell was rung by Clive Stephenson who also conducted\u00a0the peal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-2y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}