Leaf 204 – Remembrance
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| Pinner War Memorial (David Ayling-IWM) |
In the early 1990s, when I was a
teenager, I was a bell ringer at my local Parish Church. As the youngest of the
ringers (most of whom were several decades senior to me), I was usually sent up
into the bell chamber to fix the muffles on the bells for Remembrance Sunday. It
was always so cold, even in the ringing chamber, during the winter months.
Sometimes frost would form on the sallies of the bell ropes. But somehow, to my
mind at least, the weather at that time of year seemed appropriate for such a
solemn ceremony of commemoration.
Numbed fingers
ringing the bells
– Remembrance Sunday.
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| Pinner War Memorial (Brian Chapman-IWM) |
