Fawley Church bells and service

When I was a child I was a bellringer at All Saints Fawley, Hampshire. In the late 1980s, one of the other ringers lent me a set of six 78rpm discs, and I played them on my record player at home and recorded them onto cassette tape. Now I have digitised that cassette tape for your listening pleasure.

I don’t remember much about the records. They were double sided, I think they were 10”, and I remember them being heavy and metallic. I don't know how old they were - I don't think there was a date written on them at all.

There were two discs of just the bells, and then there was a set of four discs which were all recorded sequentially, starting with the bells and including the service with hymns and liturgy.

The captions are as copied by me in the late ’80s from the record labels.

You can compare these recordings with a recent Youtube video of the bells. There is more information on the church website.

The photo on the left comes from a late 1980s souveneir booklet.

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“GRANDSIRE AND SIX-IN”
RINGERS: G. BUNDAY B. FAULKNER F. ALEXANDER R. FAULKNER J. COLLINS C. FAULKNER

side 1

(mp3, 2.4MB, 3:25)
Plain course of plain bob doubles, followed by plain hunt minor, followed by a plain course of grandsire doubles, and then finally half a lead of plain bob doubles again.

side 2

(mp3, 2.4MB, 3:23)
plain bob doubles - plain hunt minor - grandsire doubles - half lead of plain bob doubles

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“PLAIN COURSE GRANDSIRE”
RINGERS: J. WHEELER, T. WOODS, P. ELKINS, G. BUNDAY, C. FAULKNER, R. FAULKNER

side 1

(mp3, 2.4MB, 3:25)
plain bob doubles - plain hunt minor - grandsire doubles

side 2

(mp3, 2.4MB, 3:24)
plain bob doubles - plain hunt minor - grandsire doubles - plain bob

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A set of four discs from one service

“BELLS”

(mp3, 1.9MB, 2:43)
Plain course of grandsire doubles, then rounds and a jump change to Queens and then a jump back to rounds.

“BELLS”

(mp3, 2.6MB, 3:41)
Plain hunt (last lead of grandsire?) - jump to Queens - rounds - grandsire - rounds - attempted firing? - rounds - queens - rounds

“HYMN”

(mp3, 2.3MB, 3:18)

“RESPONSES AND PSALM”

(mp3, 2.8MB, 3:57)

“MAGNIFICAT”

(mp3, 1.8MB, 2:30)

“NUNC DIMITUS, RESPONSES, PRAYER”

(mp3, 2.3MB, 3:19)

“HYMN”

(mp3, 2.6MB, 3:45)

“HYMN”

(mp3, 2.5MB, 3:35)

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If you have any more information about these recordings or the people in them please do let me know!