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St Padarn’s bell ringers

ARMISTICE Day is rapidly approaching and this year it will be particularly special as it commemorates the 100th anniversary of the end of the catastrophic First World War.

The day will be marked at both national and local levels in countries throughout the world, and the St Padarn’s bell ringers are now actively planning their contribution to the local commemorations.

Although it has not been ascertained whether any Llanbadarn ringers fell in the conflict, nationally some 1,400 bell ringers died during the course of the war.

Ringing Remembers is the way that the Central Council for Church Bell Ringers will be honouring their memory 100 years after the conflict ended.

Bell ringing is something woven into the fabric of British society and marks and forms part of important local occasions and national celebrations and many people in 1918 first learnt about the cessation of hostilities through the bells in their local churches being rung there are some 5,500 change ringing towers across the length and breadth of the British Isles.

Bell ringing is an acquired skill that is also an art and a mental exercise.

It is good for both fitness and focus and it enables people and older children from all walks of life to be part of a friendly and sociable community.

At St Padarn’s, practice nights are Wednesday evenings from 7.30pm to 9pm and service ringing is on Sunday mornings from 9.30am to 10am.

Anyone who is interested in learning to ring or merely to see the bells being rung, is welcome to pop up into the tower to meet ringers and see ringing taking place.

They can be assured of a warm welcome.

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