Derbyshire ringer, Simon Melen, took part in the Ringing World centenary celebrations in London last weekend by ringing a touch on 24 handbells. This is thought to be the first time such a touch has been performed in public.
Simon is no stranger to ringing on higher numbers, ringing in many peals in the mid 90's. This culminated in the first ever peal on 18 bells in 1994 and also the first on 20 bells in 1995. Interestingly, adding 2 more bells added 34 minutes to the peal. The former being 4 hours 6 and the later being 4 hours 40.
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Male and female juveniles are now flying well (3rd June)
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*Update 3 June pm. *
The juvenile female has been located on a high roof near the cathedral and
she should be fine now and very unlikely to come to grou...
3 days ago
