Click below for blog and photos of Bells and Bikes action on Stage 2 in Pontefract, Knottingley and Otley. (Most recent stage write up appears first).

https://bellsandbikes.com/tdy/

Click below for Stage 1 Bells & Bikes blog, photos and film. (Scroll through Stage  3 and 2 narrative to get to Stage 1).

https://bellsandbikes.com/tdy/

#TdY #Tdy2016 #TourdeYorkshire #cycling #bellringing #beverley #yorkshire

Tour de Yorkshire Parkin Cake.

This film deserves an Oscar.

https://www.asdagoodliving.co.uk/food/recipes/tour-de-yorkshire-parkin-cake

#cycling #yorkshire #tourdeyorkshire #tdy #parkin #cake #gateaux #patisserie

40 towers with bells. Yes 40 towers on the 2016 race route. How many will ring!

https://bellsandbikes.com/2015-2/

There are exciting plans afoot in places like Knaresborough, Knottingley, Kirk Deighton and Beverley. And much much more. Click the page link above and visit the briefing paper to find out more.

You might be a ringer wanting more information to plan your events. You might be a non ringer who decides to get in touch and have a go. All the towers have bands who would welcome new members. Please do come and have a go!

Peak District bells rang out in Tideswell in 2014 and 2015 for l’Eroica Britannia. Check out the photos on the page link below and get ready for more bells and bikes action in 2016. There’s even a Tour de France stage winner in there….

https://bellsandbikes.com/eroica-2016/

The team’s for the men’s and women’s races have been announced. Check them out via @LeTourYorkshire’s tweets. Links below. Not long now.

The London 2012 Opening Ceremony Bell is set to return to The Olympic Park. The bell was rung by Sir Bradley Wiggins to launch the ceremony.

http://queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/news/news-articles/2015/8/london-2012-opening-ceremony-bell-to-return-to-the-park

The press release, from August 2015, included in the link above says the following:

“In celebration of the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a new landscaped area of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will become a permanent home to the iconic bell rung by Sir Bradley Wiggins to mark the start of the Games.

Commissioned in September 2011 for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, the bell is cast in bronze, is two metres high, has a diameter of over three metres and weighs almost 23 tonnes. It is inscribed with the words ‘London 2012’ and a line from The Tempest spoken by Sir Kenneth Branagh during the ceremony – ‘Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises’.

David Goldstone, Chief Executive of the London Legacy Development Corporation, said:

“It was a momentous occasion when Sir Bradley Wiggins rang the bell to signify the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games and it is only right that such a classic piece of London 2012 history should have pride of place in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.”

Mayor of Newham Sir Robin Wales said:

“Having the bell back in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park so close to the Stadium illustrates our commitment to respecting the legacy of the 2012 Games.”
Visitors will be able to view the bell up close from 2016 as part of a new landscaped area to the north of the Stadium.

Facts about the bell

• The bell’s note is a B which makes it the lowest tone of any bell in the world.
• The bell is 30 centimetres wider than Britain’s previous largest bell, ‘Great Paul’ at St Paul’s Cathedral.
• The Whitechapel Bell Foundry completed the design, profile, lettering and tuning of the bell and Royal Eijsbouts of the Netherlands cast the bell.
• The bell was installed and tested in the Stadium on 1 June 2012.
• Sir Bradley Wiggins had the honour of ringing the bell to signify the start of the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. It also rang out again ahead of Sir Paul McCartney signing Hey Jude.
• The bell stayed in the Stadium during the Opening Ceremony before it was moved to the Park during the Games. “

Big day of ringing tomorrow ahead of the Annual Dinner. Listen out on Friday night for St Marie’s as pictured. 

Great interview by Joe Waters, Vice Ringing Master of Sheffield University of Change Ringers, with Andy Crane on Sunday Breakfast at BBC Radio Sheffield.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hhgwr#playt=21m00s

A great warm up to the SUGCR Annual Dinner. Delighted to have been invited as after dinner speaker 27 February 2016.

Commentary on the day via Twitter feed #SUGCRDinner

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