{"id":89564,"date":"2024-12-14T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=89564"},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T18:38:13","slug":"bellringing-in-penarth-the-hidden-british-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2024\/12\/14\/bellringing-in-penarth-the-hidden-british-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the joys of bellringing – a hidden British tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘It’s a hobby you can take anywhere’: ringing at St Augustine\u2019s Church, Penarth<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

TAKING a winter walk along Penarth prom can be wet, windy and chilly but a peal of bells drifting down from the tower of St Augustine\u2019s can still bring cheer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bellringing is a distinctly British soundscape. We associate it with weddings, Sunday morning strolls, and Christmases past. Full-circle towers, in which bells swing in a wide arc rather than hanging still, exist nowhere else in Europe, and in only a handful of Commonwealth countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If being born within earshot of the bells of Bow that makes you a true Cockney perhaps in Penarth to be a true local is to be woken by St Augustine\u2019s bells on a Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what is <\/em>bellringing? What is the music that we hear ringing out across our landscapes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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