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Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association

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Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association

The Association was founded on 8th January 1878 as the sixth of the modern ringing societies known today. Although it was the founding of both the Durham and Norwich Diocesan societies that undoubtedly gave its two founders, George Phillott and Charles Davies, the impetus to establish the Association they may already have been influenced from their time ringing in Oxford. Here they rang with notables such as Charles W A Troyte and Jasper W Snowdon founding presidents of the Devon (1874) and Yorkshire (1875) Associations respectively.
In the autumn of 1877, they arranged two initial meetings at the vicarage in Bisley, near Stroud, to discuss the idea with other interested parties. As a result, in November the two of them sent an invited to the clergy of the Diocese inviting them to a meeting in the Chapter Room at Gloucester Cathedral at noon on 8th January to 'form, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, an Association of Church Change Ringers similar to those already established in Devonshire, Durham and Norfolk'.
The first AGM was held on 1st July 1878 at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. Around 100 people attended and by the end of the year the new Association had 96 ringing and 57 honorary members. A fuller history can be found in Ringing World (6th January 1978, pages 2 to 4). [Research and observations associated with the Council Library Certificates Collection by Chris Ridley.]

founded 1878 [Research and observations associated with the Council Library Badge Collection by Chris Ridley.]

1878https://www.bellsgandb.org.uk/

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Books in the Council Library

TitleAuthorDateNotesAcquisition Number
Form of Service for meetings1922 1044
Service to celebrate the Centenary of the Association7.i.1978 1044
Branch NewsNewsletter Issue 1 (Summer 1997) - Issue 6 (Autumn 1998) Issue 8 (Spring 1999)2555
Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association, Cheltenham BranchNews Sheet Newsletter Issue 1 Spring 1983) - Issue 6 (Summer 1984)1499
News Sheet Newsletter Issue 1 (n.d.) - Issue 7 (Feb 1996) Issue 9 (Apr 1996).2271
Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association, Chippenham BranchNewsletter 'Strike Note!' No 18 (Winter 1978), No 67 (Oct 1988)1261
Gloucester and Bristol D A, Swindon BranchNewsletter No 11 - (Spring 1980) - No 14 (Winter 1980) and Vol 4 Nos 1 - 4 (15 - 18) Comb bound volume1331
Newsletter Vol 13 No 1 (1980) - Vol 17 No 2 (1994) Bound volume Publication ceased1567
Tewkesbury TidingsNewsletter Nos 2, 3, 4, 7 and 9 (n.d. ?1992 - 1994)2220
Annual Reports 1887, 88, 1898-1901, 1903, 1912, 1913, 1916/20-27, 1928-2015/16, 2016/7-2022/23 [1994, 1995, 2002]679
Elementary Change RingingRevd F F Rigby1980Republished without alteration to text Additional foreword 3985
Newsletter No 1 (Oct 1977) - No 10 (Winter 1979) Comb bound volume1085

Accounts of the lives of members (Navigation at foot of page)

NamePlace(s)Other societiesDate of death
Sapper Albert Edward Abrahams Location mentioned in obituary: Bristol
Roll of Honour tower: Bristol
06/03/1916
Raymond Alfred Adams Location mentioned in obituary: Bristol
Roll of Honour tower: Bristol (St Ambrose)
01/03/1942
R Allen Roll of Honour tower: Westbury on Severn 
Private Frank James Allen Roll of Honour tower: Westbury on Severn15/05/1915
Patrick Henry Allen Place of Birth: Upton St Leonards
Began ringing at: Upton St Leonards
First peal tower: Haresfield
Location mentioned in obituary: Upton St Leonards
15/06/2002
James Kenneth Armstrong Place of Birth: Scotland
Began ringing at: Bodenham, Herefordshire
01/01/1964
John Austin Place of Birth: Burton on Trent
Began ringing at: Winshill, St Mark
First peal tower: Burton-on-Trent
Towers: St Michael's, Gloucester
Location mentioned in obituary: Gloucester
28/08/1944
Private Frederick Awford Roll of Honour tower: Newent22/10/1914
Peter Edgar Baker Place of Birth: Willesden area
Began ringing at: Kingsbury, London
First peal tower: Bishops Cleeve
Location mentioned in obituary: Bishop’s Cleeve
Ancient Society of College Youths15/07/2011
Private Christopher George Ball Roll of Honour tower: Dyrham03/09/1916
Albert Leslie Barry Place of Birth: Stroud, Glos
Began ringing at: Stroud
First peal tower: Stroud
Towers: Painswick 1922; Gloucester (Cathedral & St. Mary de Crypt) 1938; Cheltenham 1954.
Location mentioned in obituary: Gloucester
28/04/1984
Robert Edgar Batten Roll of Honour tower: Yate27/02/1941
Private Edward Betteridge Roll of Honour tower: Bourton on the Water28/08/1918
Private Henry Hodson Birch Roll of Honour tower: Bristol
Roll of Honour tower: Stapleton
27/08/1917
Ernest Bishop Place of Birth: Horton, Ilminster
First peal tower: All Saints, Great Marlow, Bucks
Towers: St Lawrence, Reading, Christ Church, Swindon.
Location mentioned in obituary: Swindon
04/06/1935
Thomas Robert Boreham Began ringing at: Leckhampton, Glos
Towers: St Mary's Cheltenham
Location mentioned in obituary: Cheltenham
05/08/1978
Sapper Ernest Rice Boulton Roll of Honour tower: Swindon28/06/1916
William Stanley Brimble Roll of Honour tower: Bristol (St Werburgh)20/12/1942
Pte Bernard Robert Hadow Carter Roll of Honour tower: Slimbridge07/11/1917
Pte William John Carter Roll of Honour tower: Thornbury10/11/1918

Peal Statistics

Statistics sourced from the annual reports of the Council Peal Analysis Committee will be shown here

The tables will need to be digitised first. A job for 2024.

Peal Boards

Abergavenny, Wales 23/03/1901

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Abergavenny, Wales 24/03/1901

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Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 19/12/1918

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Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 02/10/1920

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Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 24/12/1921

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Bristol (St Stephen) 09/05/1922

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Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 20/08/1925

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Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 08/05/1948

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Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association

Society NameDescriptionsFrom (year)To (year)Web site
Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association

The Association was founded on 8th January 1878 as the sixth of the modern ringing societies known today. Although it was the founding of both the Durham and Norwich Diocesan societies that undoubtedly gave its two founders, George Phillott and Charles Davies, the impetus to establish the Association they may already have been influenced from their time ringing in Oxford. Here they rang with notables such as Charles W A Troyte and Jasper W Snowdon founding presidents of the Devon (1874) and Yorkshire (1875) Associations respectively.
In the autumn of 1877, they arranged two initial meetings at the vicarage in Bisley, near Stroud, to discuss the idea with other interested parties. As a result, in November the two of them sent an invited to the clergy of the Diocese inviting them to a meeting in the Chapter Room at Gloucester Cathedral at noon on 8th January to 'form, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, an Association of Church Change Ringers similar to those already established in Devonshire, Durham and Norfolk'.
The first AGM was held on 1st July 1878 at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. Around 100 people attended and by the end of the year the new Association had 96 ringing and 57 honorary members. A fuller history can be found in Ringing World (6th January 1978, pages 2 to 4). [Research and observations associated with the Council Library Certificates Collection by Chris Ridley.]

founded 1878 [Research and observations associated with the Council Library Badge Collection by Chris Ridley.]

1878https://www.bellsgandb.org.uk/

Photo

Books in the Council Library

TitleAuthorDateNotesAcquisition Number
Form of Service for meetings1922 1044
Service to celebrate the Centenary of the Association7.i.1978 1044
Branch NewsNewsletter Issue 1 (Summer 1997) - Issue 6 (Autumn 1998) Issue 8 (Spring 1999)2555
Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association, Cheltenham BranchNews Sheet Newsletter Issue 1 Spring 1983) - Issue 6 (Summer 1984)1499
News Sheet Newsletter Issue 1 (n.d.) - Issue 7 (Feb 1996) Issue 9 (Apr 1996).2271
Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association, Chippenham BranchNewsletter 'Strike Note!' No 18 (Winter 1978), No 67 (Oct 1988)1261
Gloucester and Bristol D A, Swindon BranchNewsletter No 11 - (Spring 1980) - No 14 (Winter 1980) and Vol 4 Nos 1 - 4 (15 - 18) Comb bound volume1331
Newsletter Vol 13 No 1 (1980) - Vol 17 No 2 (1994) Bound volume Publication ceased1567
Tewkesbury TidingsNewsletter Nos 2, 3, 4, 7 and 9 (n.d. ?1992 - 1994)2220
Annual Reports 1887, 88, 1898-1901, 1903, 1912, 1913, 1916/20-27, 1928-2015/16, 2016/7-2022/23 [1994, 1995, 2002]679
Elementary Change RingingRevd F F Rigby1980Republished without alteration to text Additional foreword 3985
Newsletter No 1 (Oct 1977) - No 10 (Winter 1979) Comb bound volume1085

Accounts of the lives of members (Navigation at foot of page)

NamePlace(s)Other societiesDate of death
Sapper Albert Edward Abrahams Location mentioned in obituary: Bristol
Roll of Honour tower: Bristol
06/03/1916
Raymond Alfred Adams Location mentioned in obituary: Bristol
Roll of Honour tower: Bristol (St Ambrose)
01/03/1942
R Allen Roll of Honour tower: Westbury on Severn 
Private Frank James Allen Roll of Honour tower: Westbury on Severn15/05/1915
Patrick Henry Allen Place of Birth: Upton St Leonards
Began ringing at: Upton St Leonards
First peal tower: Haresfield
Location mentioned in obituary: Upton St Leonards
15/06/2002
James Kenneth Armstrong Place of Birth: Scotland
Began ringing at: Bodenham, Herefordshire
01/01/1964
John Austin Place of Birth: Burton on Trent
Began ringing at: Winshill, St Mark
First peal tower: Burton-on-Trent
Towers: St Michael's, Gloucester
Location mentioned in obituary: Gloucester
28/08/1944
Private Frederick Awford Roll of Honour tower: Newent22/10/1914
Peter Edgar Baker Place of Birth: Willesden area
Began ringing at: Kingsbury, London
First peal tower: Bishops Cleeve
Location mentioned in obituary: Bishop’s Cleeve
Ancient Society of College Youths15/07/2011
Private Christopher George Ball Roll of Honour tower: Dyrham03/09/1916
Albert Leslie Barry Place of Birth: Stroud, Glos
Began ringing at: Stroud
First peal tower: Stroud
Towers: Painswick 1922; Gloucester (Cathedral & St. Mary de Crypt) 1938; Cheltenham 1954.
Location mentioned in obituary: Gloucester
28/04/1984
Robert Edgar Batten Roll of Honour tower: Yate27/02/1941
Private Edward Betteridge Roll of Honour tower: Bourton on the Water28/08/1918
Private Henry Hodson Birch Roll of Honour tower: Bristol
Roll of Honour tower: Stapleton
27/08/1917
Ernest Bishop Place of Birth: Horton, Ilminster
First peal tower: All Saints, Great Marlow, Bucks
Towers: St Lawrence, Reading, Christ Church, Swindon.
Location mentioned in obituary: Swindon
04/06/1935
Thomas Robert Boreham Began ringing at: Leckhampton, Glos
Towers: St Mary's Cheltenham
Location mentioned in obituary: Cheltenham
05/08/1978
Sapper Ernest Rice Boulton Roll of Honour tower: Swindon28/06/1916
William Stanley Brimble Roll of Honour tower: Bristol (St Werburgh)20/12/1942
Pte Bernard Robert Hadow Carter Roll of Honour tower: Slimbridge07/11/1917
Pte William John Carter Roll of Honour tower: Thornbury10/11/1918

Peal Statistics

Statistics sourced from the annual reports of the Council Peal Analysis Committee will be shown here

The tables will need to be digitised first. A job for 2024.

Peal Boards

Abergavenny, Wales 23/03/1901

Details

Abergavenny, Wales 24/03/1901

Details

Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 19/12/1918

Details

Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 02/10/1920

Details

Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 24/12/1921

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Bristol (St Stephen) 09/05/1922

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Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 20/08/1925

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Bristol (St Philip and St Jacob) 08/05/1948

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