{"id":22483,"date":"2026-08-02T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=22483"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:27:14","slug":"bell-ringers-birthday-peal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2026\/08\/02\/bell-ringers-birthday-peal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Ringers Birthday Peal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of our bell ringers, Michelle Stephenson, recently celebrated her 50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday on 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this time we also realised that she was just about ready to attempt her first peal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although apprehensive about ringing continuously for three hours, Michelle agreed to give it a go as it was an opportunity not to be missed. So, on 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February 2026, a full peal on the ten bells of St Andrew\u2019s was successfully completed to celebrate Michelle\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very well done Michelle and thanks to all who took part in this occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full details are shown below with a photograph of the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Essex Association<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hornchurch, Essex<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>St Andrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sunday, 8 February 2026 in 3h 20min<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5039 Grandsire Caters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Composed by George F Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 Michelle A Stephenson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2 Helen J Carter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3 Clara M Waller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4 Marianne R Hayward<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5 Lucas J Owen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6 John M Church<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7 William J Stungo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8 Roderic K Bickerton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9 Clive J Stephenson (C)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10 James P Riley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rung to celebrate the recent 50th birthday of Michelle Stephenson and 70th birthday of Andrew Barham.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>First peal &#8211; 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>First Grandsire &#8211; 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260208-WA0005.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260208-WA0005.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260208-WA0005.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260208-WA0005.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260208-WA0005.jpg?resize=380%2C285&amp;ssl=1 380w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260208-WA0005.jpg?resize=285%2C214&amp;ssl=1 285w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260208-WA0005.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our bell ringers, Michelle Stephenson, recently celebrated her 50th\u00a0birthday on 9th\u00a0January 2026. At this time we also realised that she was just about ready to attempt her first peal. Although apprehensive about ringing continuously for three hours, Michelle agreed to give it a go as it was an opportunity not to be missed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2026\/08\/02\/bell-ringers-birthday-peal\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-22483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peals","category-uncategorized","tag-peals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260208-WA0005.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-5QD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22485,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483\/revisions\/22485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}