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Holmbridge – bring a bell 3 July

July 1, 2014

Holmbridge Welcomes Le Tour!

Holmbridge festivities for Le Tour start with bell ringing at 8.20pm as part of the county wide “big ring” for Le Tour – a welcome from all across the county.

All are welcome – bring a bell and a bike!

St David’s Church Holmbridge

We invite everyone to come in and find some sacred space and a moment of quiet from the chaos outside.

Visit the labyrinth in the church – a spiritual journey, and representing the circle (or even cycle!) of life. Explore the stations around the church – gaze on the images, read, touch, smell, sit and reflect, seek God. Christians have been using the labyrinth since the 4^th century, most notably in the great mediaeval churches of Europe, the last remaining one is at Chartres, France.

You are welcome to just sit and relax, to pray, to light a candle for a loved one

Le Tour comes to the Artistic Holme Valley Competition – we had over 500 entries from Upper Holme Valley schoolchildren on a Tour de France theme – paintings, pastels, colouring and even some with ‘pyramid’ poems. Prizewinning bicycles will also be displayed on the Le Tour Bend Mural on the stage in the Parish Hall.

The Prize Winning Bicycles will be displayed on the St David’s Le Tour Bend Mural in the Parish Hall

Tea, coffee and biscuits and cakes from the café in the West End Room, with toilet and baby changing facilities

Opening Hours : Friday 6-9pm

Saturday 10-9pm

Sunday 8-6pm

Holmbridge Cricket Club

Holmbridge C is open from early Friday morning till 10pm every evening over the TDF weekend.

Food festival and beer Marquee open for breakfasts and food. Big screen TVs in the Marquee to watch the race, tennis, F1, and the World Cup. You don’t have to miss anything all weekend. Plenty of flat open space right beside the road to have picnics and enjoy the atmosphere of the 3 days.

The Bridge Pub

At the Bridge, a 3 day tour outdoor festival starts Friday and is open all weekend,.

There is live music, great beer, great food and big screen showing race Saturday and Sunday.

Holmbridge is the place to be !! .

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Towers on Tour

July 1, 2014

And here are our churches featuring in the Opening Ceremony.

Cawthorne, South Yorkshire. Near Barnsley

Ossett, West Yorkshire. Near Wakefield.

Chapel Allerton, in north Leeds, 200m from Stage 1 race route

And Masham in the Dales. Big parties planned here for Stage 1 🙂

There will also be ringing from towers all over Yorkshire. And you are welcome to join us from wherever you are with a bike bell or handbell or even an app (google it and you’ll soon find a bell app for your phone).

Here’s just a few other great Tour towers…

Ideas for Ringers – Cycling TV Guide

May 8, 2014

Still working up your plans for bellringing for Le Tour de France in Yorkshire? Want to see what a major cycle race looks like? Check out the Radio Times guide to cycling via the link below and check out the listings for ITV4 and Eurosport.

Its the Grande Partenza of the Giro d’Italia in Belfast on 9 May. That is the start of the second biggest cycle race in the world. 3 days in Ireland. 3 whole days in Ireland. And a few churches en route…

And its the Women’s Tour in Britain and the mens Tour of Azerbaijan.

See the crowds. See the arena that your bells could ring out to…. And the audience who might want to come and have a go… And see who might sign up to learn at your tower. #bepartofit

http://www.radiotimes.com/programme/y6w/cycling

Other exhibitions featuring bellringing

April 19, 2014

Bells can be stunning for their sound and for their imagery. Brazilian artist Laura Belém took this to new levels with her dramatic work “1000 Bells” which was exhibited in York St Mary’s in 2012 as part of her work for the Liverpool Biennial. Find out more on this great art work via the YouTube clip and weblinks below this photo from 2012.

The temple of 1,000 bells.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/temple-of-1000-bells_n_687895.html#128651