Tuning the tenor at Taylors of Loughborough. With Andrew Wilby (Taylors) and Jim Wheeler and William Regan (Worcester Cathedral).

A final run through of the frame assembly took place at NDS Engineering in Clifton upon Teme yesterday, 23rd June. Thanks to Jim Wheeler and John Slater who put the frame together and their sterling work can be viewed in the timelapse video below. Thanks also to Neil at NDS for his accommodation and help [...]

The frame which will hold the bells, being constructed at NDS Engineering in Clifton upon Teme, is well under way. The final pieces of the frame are being put together before being sent to be galvanised at Hereford Galvanizers.

We’re grateful to the Worcestershire and Districts Change Ringing Association for their kind increase in their grant for the new tenor bell. This is due to the increase in the cost of copper and tin. Everyone at Old St Martin’s is grateful for their generosity. The frame which will hold the bells is now being [...]

Archaeological work on the Lowesmoor development opposite the church has revealed a defence ditch dated around 1640. The Civil War defensive ditch (up to 15m wide and over 3m in depth) would have been excavated in the 1640s by the people of the city in the event of the royalist city being attacked by Cromwell’s [...]

“After more than a century, bells will ring again” A news video published on the Worcester News website, 28th January 2011 Watch the video on the Worcester News website.

Work by the Cumbria Clock Company has been successfully carried out, fitting clock hammers to the old bells. The clock chimes will strike the Angelus and be used as service bells using a modern chiming apparatus. The bells are now ringing and being heard for the first time in 100 years! James Atkinson’s film of [...]

All the bells are now cast, Ursula Anderson visited the foundry to see her bell and the work in progress.

The second casting day took place on 16th December, attended by a large number of members of the parish plus donors Paul and Gillian Westcott and Elizabeth Prior. The four bells from the first casting could be seen in their raw state awaiting the next stage of the bell founding process.

The first of three casting days took place on 9th December at John Taylor’s Bell Foundry in Loughborough. Viewing the procedings were donors Margaret Goodrich, Brenda Kinnear, Colin Kinnear and, representing the City of Worcester, Alan Stuttard.