A day out in Hereford Town
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Chesterfield St Mary and All Saints
A small video of my short time at the Crooked Spire in Chesterfield.
Collegiate Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Ashford, Kent. Full Quarter Peal of Stedman Triples
The back 8 bells of Ashford Parish Church being rung to a full Quarter Peal of Stedman Triples in May 2010 to honour the memory of Frederick C. Palmer on the first anniversary of his death; a faithful and devoted servant of the church for upward of 80 years and a Server since 1937, instructed at the Forge Lane Mission Church.
The interesting five at Orcop, Herefordshire
St John the Baptist, Orcop. Ringing on the five bells, which are either tuned in the Dorian Mode (as in Sharpe) or simply have a tenor that is out of tune. The tenor is supposedly 10 cwt in G# although the front four are a the front four of a five in key of G. An unusual tower with an impressive wooden structure holding it up.
It's a nice day to go exploring Kilpeck
Kilpeck is a fascinating Herefordshire village with a Norman church famous for its sculpture and the ruins of a castle. Why not pay a visit, starting from Poston Mill Park!
Canon Rosie Harper is Out4Marriage!
Canon Rosie Harper, Chaplain to the Bishop of Buckingham, is Out4Marriage because her religious view informs her opinion - not in spite of it.
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Newland Church Forest of Dean Gloucestershire
A look around the fine church at Newland in the Forest of Dean. This massive church is known as 'The Cathedral of the Forest' and has many fine monuments including effigies and brasses.
Alan Wilson Historian - The Hidden History of Britain
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Alan Wilson is a British historian specialising in the origins and ancient history of the British and the history of the ancient British kings including two real King Arthurs.
Arthurian research:
In 1976, after a chance meeting with historical researcher, Anthony Thomas 'Baram' Blackett, at the public library in Newcastle upon Tyne, the two men decided to put up many thousands of pounds of their own money to fund full-time research into the origins of King Arthur. The Arthurian stories, so popular today, came out of South-Eastern Wales into France, via the Normans, in the 12th century and this encouraged them to start their search in the same place. The search soon moved beyond Wales to include the English Midlands which had been dominated by the old Welsh Kingdoms for centuries.
To date, Wilson and Blackett have published seven books that provide information based upon Old Welsh records that date to the 12th Century. They believe that these provide a final solution to the King Arthur story and have clearly identified the true sites of the battles of Badon (Mynydd Baedan) and Camlann.
In 1983, Wilson and Blackett discovered what they believe to be King Arthur's memorial stone at the small ruined church of St Peter-super-Montem on Mynydd-y-Gaer in Mid-Glamorgan, which they subsequently purchased. The stone was offered to the National Museum of Wales (Amguedda Werin Cymru) for analysis, but the offer was not taken up. Subsequently it went on public display in various venues for some time. Following this, they employed the services of two archaeologists, (Professor Eric Talbot and Alan Wishart) in 1990, to lead a dig at the same place. During the excavations, which were authorised by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, several artefacts were discovered including an ancient axe, a knife and a small cross weighing two and a half pounds, that reads Pro Anima Artorius (For The Soul Of Arthur). The cross was subsequently tested by an independent metallurgical house, Bodycote PLC, and found to be made of electrum, and so certified. The cross was offered up to the National Museum of Wales for public testing, but this also was declined.Wilson and Blackett had already identified the church as an ancient historical site possibly originally dating from the first century A.D. Other major Welsh kings are buried locally.
More recently, Wilson and Blackett began a search for what was known as 'The Greatest Work of the Cymru' - Cyfrangon. This is allegedly a massive, hollow, man-made hill concealed somewhere in Wales (similar to Silbury Hill). Treasure hunters in Wales have long sought this fabled hill in which, it is believed, lie several objects of tremendous historical and archaeological value, many of which may be covered in gold or copper.
The use of deep ground probing metal detection and analysis equipment revealed non ferrous metal artefacts some fifteen feet below the surface of the hill at Twyn y Glog, near Ynysybwl in mid Glamorgan. Further investigation by collaborators proved that the original height of the hill lies some 30 or more metres below the Ordnance Survey height, and that the hill is therefore an artificial construct. (Berkly, G., 2007).
No further tests have been made to date (10 September 2007).
Lecture tours:
Alan Wilson and his colleague lectured extensively in the United Kingdom, including Manchester and Jesus College at the University of Oxford, and Alan Wilson gave the prestigious Bemis Lecture in Boston in 1993. Research into claims that the Welsh settled in mid-western America in antiquity led to Wilson and his colleague, Baram Blackett, accepting invitations from American supporters to visit US sites of historical significance in 1994. The visit led to several television appearances and the deciphering of alphabetic inscriptions claimed to be in the old 'Coelbren' alphabet. Wilson also concluded that the many snake mounds in the American Mid-west were of ancient Khumric-British construction. Whilst in America, the two men were also commissioned to produce a detailed genealogy for the Bush family (friends and supporters of President George H. W. Bush).
Published works:
Arthur, King of Glamorgan and Gwent (with Baram Blackett, MT Byrd Partnership, 1980)
Arthur and Charter of the Kings (with Baram Blackett, MT Byrd Partnership, 1981)
Arthur The War King (with Baram Blackett, MT Byrd Partnership, 1982-3)
Artorius Rex Discovered (with Baram Blackett, MT Byrd Partnership, 1986)
The Holy Kingdom (with Adrian Gilbert and Baram Blackett, Bantam, 1998)
King Arthur Conspiracy (with Grant Berkley and Baram Blackett, Trafford, 2005)
Moses in the Hieroglyphs (with Grant Berkley and Baram Blackett, Trafford, 2006)
The Discovery of the Ark of the Covenant (with Grant Berkley and Baram Blackett, Trafford, 2007)
Bellringing at St Mary, Sprotbrough, South Yorkshire
Treble 2-0-12 1963 John Taylor & Co
2 2-1-20 1963 John Taylor & Co
3 2-3-10 1963 John Taylor & Co
4 3-0-16 1963 John Taylor & Co
5 3-3-10 1963 John Taylor & Co
6 4-1-26 1963 John Taylor & Co
7 6-0-2 1963 John Taylor & Co
8 8-1-26 Bb 35.00 1963 John Taylor & Co
2017.06.24 Choir singing in St Andrews church in Halstead, Essex, uk
Irene and Dave Hurr enjoy the singing of a choir in St Andrews church in Halstead, Essex, uk
High Town Hereford
Just before the demolition ahead of the construction of Maylord Orchards .
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Chesterfields famous church spire viewed from passing train
The Bells of the Basilica of St. Mary in lovely Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Bells of the Basilica rang for the funeral of John Olson. His funeral date September 10, 2013. I was there to sing with the Basilica Choir. The bells are so lovely! It is not so much for the visual, as I am no videographer. It is for the sound of the bells. They are amazing! The Basilica is a wonderful place to worship. I personally recommend attending if given the opportunity.
Lowering the bells of Claybrooke.
With apologies as the lower we got the more disasterous things became! The flaming ladder behind the tenor is right in the way.
1. 1929 John Taylor & Co
2. 1929 John Taylor & Co
3. 1929 John Taylor & Co
4. 1929 John Taylor & Co
5. 1929 John Taylor & Co
6. 1626 Hugh Watts II of Leicester
7. 1672 George Oldfield I of Nottingham
8. Circa 1500 Seliok (who knows who cast this beauty!)
The tenor is in the note Eb and weighs 13-3-10 (703 kg)
They were, as you might have guessed, a ring of 3 until 1929 when Taylors added 5 trebles and rehung them.
Bells at St Mary, Bathwick
Some ringing on the ten at Bathwick. We were unfortunately rather short on ten-bell ringers on the trip. These are a tricky ring to get right as the bells are very indistinct in the ringing chamber and some of the back bells are quite lumpy. They are mostly Thomas Mears bells with Whitechapel trebles, and are fitted with very good sound control.
Tewkesbury Abbey School Choir: Choir of Tewkesbury Abbey School 1980 (Michael Peterson)
The first recording by the Choir of the Abbey School under the direction of Michael Peterson, July 1980. Originally released on Abbey Records [APS 314].
This choir school was opened in 1973 and closed in July 2006. The choristers are now educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and are known as the Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum.
Ascendit Deus (Peter Philips)
Aeterne Rex altissime (Plainsong office hymn)
Non vos relinquam orphanos (William Byrd)
Hymn: Hail the day that sees him rise (tune: “Chislehurst”)
Gaudent in coelis (Richard Dering)
O quam gloriosum (Victoria)
This is the record of John (Orlando Gibbons)
O sing joyfully (Grayston Ives)
O how glorious is the kingdom (Basil Harwood)
Duo seraphim (Richard Dering)
Hymn: Jesus the very thought of thee
O Lord the maker of all things (Mundy)
In Pace (Blitheman)
And I saw a new heaven (Edgar Bainton)
To thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul (Sergei Rachmaninov)
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