And I shall be ringing half-muffled at my local church*. Interestingly I don’t recall ever parading to the War Memorial in Finchingfield as a Cub Scout – IIRC we always marched in Braintree instead.
Yes, it’s a cracking setting for a memorial – and having the service there is great. I think it was two years ago I was last at Finchingfield for Remembrance Sunday and it was standing room only – and it’s no small church! So should be an interesting gathering.
Adrian
* Meaning that the bells have a muffle on one side of the clapper – so they ring out on every other blow rather than on every blow. Creates a very ghostly echo, and commonly used for funerals and commemorative ringing. A way of spreading the message to a whole community, I guess.
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