Suckley church bells

Hear the bells of Suckley Church in downloadable mp3 format (64kbps mono) :

Extract 1 (starting the St Simon's Doubles method)

Extract 2 (ending the Grandsire Doubles method)

Each file is about 750kB in size and plays for about 90 seconds. They were recorded at the weekly Wednesday practice at about 9pm on 7 February 2001, from the middle of the churchyard, by the light of a full moon!

Suckley Churchyard on the evening of 7 February 2001. Digital photo, processed in two different ways to bring out detail. The bright light is not the full moon but an electric lamp lighting the gate into the churchyard. The small white patch half way up the church tower is the light shining from the ringing chamber window.

We made the recording for possible use in a production of Twelfth Night by Tagora, an amateur theatre group in Strasbourg, France, who contacted us via this site.

Suckley Tower bellringers on 7 February 2001:

from left to right: Christine Hayes, Jim Colley, Linda Taylor,
Ivor Bramich, Walter Huband, Janet Craddock and Terry Ellard.

You can hear more bell ringing, in Real Audio, recorded in 1997, on the Music in Suckley page.