Ringing for Gold Handbell Ringing the Living Tradition - The Book That Had To Be Published!
This fascinating book is the culmination of 35 years painstaking research by the author, Peter Fawcett, in which he chronicles the rise in popularity of the art of hand-bell ringing from it’s beginnings in the 16th century. It is as much an account of life in the industrial villages, mainly in the north of England, such as Holmfirth and Ripponden in Yorkshire, Glossop in Derbyshire and Oldham in Lancashire, during the last 400 years, as it is the history of hand-bell tune ringing. During his research, Peter “was amazed to discover that nobody had written anything on a subject which has so much popularity”.