{"id":32,"date":"2015-09-06T20:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=32"},"modified":"2016-01-31T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T19:57:21","slug":"bellringers-celebrate-diamond-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2015\/09\/06\/bellringers-celebrate-diamond-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellringers Celebrate Diamond Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/gallery\/60th_wedding_couple.jpg?resize=500%2C281\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John and Blanche Stephenson celebrating their Diamond Wedding.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On 27th August 2015, John Stephenson of St Andrew\u2019s bellringers, and his wife Blanche, celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/gallery\/60th_wedding_quarter_band.JPG?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The local band of ringers (including John) who rang the quarter peal on 23rd August.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To mark the occasion, on 23rd August, some of the local ringers, including John and his son Clive, rang a quarter peal of Grandsire Caters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hornchurch<\/strong>, Essex<br \/>\nSt Andrew<br \/>\nSunday, 23 August 2015 (18\u20130\u20130 in E\u266d)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1277<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Grandsire Caters<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Gavin S Carpenter<br \/>\n2. John W Stephenson<br \/>\n3. Paul J Bloomfield<br \/>\n4. Lionel S Woods<br \/>\n5. James Laken<br \/>\n6. Anthony M Faulkner<br \/>\n7. Nicholas M Allen<br \/>\n8. Christopher C M Pain<br \/>\n9. Clive J Stephenson (C)<br \/>\n10. Philip H Denton<\/p>\n<p>For Evensong and to congratulate Blanche and John Stephenson on their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/gallery\/60th_wedding_peal_band.jpg?resize=500%2C281\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band of ringers, mostly from Westminster Abbey, who rang the peal on 29th August.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then on 29th August a team from Westminster Abbey, where John rang for many years, came to ring a full peal of Stedman Caters which was successful and lasted more than 3 hours:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Essex Association<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hornchurch<\/strong>, Essex<br \/>\nSt Andrew<br \/>\nSaturday, 29 August 2015 in 3h 11 (18\u20130\u20130 in E\u266d)<br \/>\n<strong>5060<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Stedman Caters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Michael J Uphill<br \/>\n2. Anne S Pratt<br \/>\n3. David E Rothera<br \/>\n4. Michael J Palmer<br \/>\n5. David P Hilling (C)<br \/>\n6. Christopher H Rogers<br \/>\n7. David J Dearnley<br \/>\n8. Alan J Frost<br \/>\n9. Jeremy R Pratt<br \/>\n10. Clive J Stephenson<\/p>\n<p>Rung in celebration of the Diamond Wedding Anniversary on 27 August of John and Blanche Stephenson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v-S2wnns6qA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Listen to part of the 5060 Stedman Caters on 29th August.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27th August 2015, John Stephenson of St Andrew\u2019s bellringers, and his wife Blanche, celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary.<\/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-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}