On Wednesday 13th April 50 villagers and friends visited Taylor's Bell foundry in Loughborough to witness the casting of our 3 new bells. 25 children from Y5/6 of the Manor School attended. Also there were descendants of 3 of the 6 men from the village who died in WWI to watch the smallest bell being cast. Mr Colin Bryan represented Drayton Manor Theme Park who gave the 2nd bell in memory of his parents, George and Vera Bryan who founded the park. The party was split into 2 groups to tour the museum and foundry workshop before being taken to a balcony overlooking the casting hall. Before the bells were cast the rector, The Reverend Jonathan Iddon, led the party in prayer.
Following watching the casting from the safety of the balcony the group were allowed to come onto the casting hall floor to view the bells close up.
Keven Jackson,a ringer from Tamworth who very kindly drew up the drawings for the faculty application took a large amount of photos. Some of which you can view by pasting the following link into your web browser
.https://www.flickr.com/photos/141395550@N05/
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