Stage 2 of the Tour de Yorkshire (Saturday 2 May 2015) saw a rich variety of churches, bellringing and community decorations.
In the 21 photos below I share images from Bubwith, Holme on Spalding Moor, Norton on Derwent and Wetwang.
You don’t have to be a cyclist to love the Tour de Yorkshire.
Just look at how all these communities have got into the spirit. Brilliant!
Welcome to Yorkshire have released some cracking films on the Yorkshire Festival website. They include great memories of the Festival and of Le Tour de France 2014.
Bells, in particular, feature in “Festival Rising” – excerpts of Sheffield Cathedral and its bells around 1min20s into the film.
http://festival.yorkshire.com/films
Ringing at 8.20pm for the Opening Ceremony.
Thursday 3 July – ring across the county at 8.20pm for the Opening Ceremony. Cawthorne, Masham and Chapel Allerton pre-recorded along with Yorkshire Tykes band at Ossett.
Check the invitation on the Le Tour Yorkshire website below – “..a symbolic bringing together of the entire county to herald the beginning of Yorkshire’s Grand Depart..”
http://letour.yorkshire.com/the-grand-d%C3%A9part-2014/tour-de-france-opening-ceremony
Ring a bell with us at your church, school, shop or on your bike. And if you don’t have a bell you can get an app to shake your phone and ring a bell. eg.
http://www.appszoom.com/android_applications/handbell
So what do the press say? 🙂
Bell Ting Idea says @TheYorksTimes
http://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/BellTing-Idea-For-Yorkshires-Opening-Ceremony
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11287679.
Bells_to_ring_for_start_of_Tour_de_France/
And here they are on ITV!
http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2014-06-18/bell-ringing-to-welcome-tour-de-france/
Please do join us to ring to welcome Le Tour. Please share this exciting news as widely as you can.
This is a huge media event with global TV coverage. We are privileged to have been invited to be part of it.
http://letour.yorkshire.com/the-grand-depart-2014/tour-de-france-opening-ceremony
At 8.20pm the cameras will cut to Yorkshire bellringing. We are invited to ring from all our towers across the whole of Yorkshire.
With 52 practice nights that day anyway, we had a good start. Other bands are now rearranging their diaries to join us.
We will give a short coordinated burst of ringing from all towers at 8.20pm (this final time was confirmed on Monday 30 June).
I will share more info as it evolves here and on Facebook and Twitter @bellsandbikes and via the email group I use for Tower Briefings.
Please could you share this with everyone.
Please reply via Facebook or email rismay@virginmedia.com to confirm your involvement.
This is a wonderful chance to share Yorkshire bellringing with the world.
And it is for ALL towers in Yorkshire. Not just the race route. And for one bell, two bell and campanile towers. [ but if you live elsewhere you’d be welcome to pile in too 🙂 ]
Our invitation is to get the county ringing. (and the world! York in Australia and New York in America will be ringing Yorkshire too!)
Please also visit www.yorkshire.com for more news about Le Tour, the Grand Depart and the Opening Ceremony.
Pop it in your diary now. Maybe a quarter or peal to precede it too? Over to you
Small? Medium? Large? No, it had to be 5 square metres for Skipton Church. Love it. Maillot jaune.
Last year Le Jardin Yorkshire won the people’s vote at RHS Chelsea.
This year, Welcome to Yorkshire are back at Chelsea with a Tour themed garden.
Check it out. Willing them on to win again:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-chelsea-flower-show/exhibitors/gardens/Le-Tour-de-Yorkshire
As all eyes turn to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show here’s a link to a piece in the Telegraph from 2013 where Alan Titchmarsh, gardening hero, explains change ringing and how he first rang at the age of 11.
Alan rang at All Saints Ilkley which is, of course, on the race route of Le Tour de France in Yorkshire on Saturday 5 July.
This week, viewers of BBC TV may well see Alan in the vicinity of the Le Tour de Yorkshire artisan garden at Chelsea, designed by Alistair Baldwin for Welcome to Yorkshire.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/10520214/Alan-Titchmarsh-the-bells-of-waiting-advent-rings.html
http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-chelsea-flower-show/exhibitors/gardens/Le-Tour-de-Yorkshire
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
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