Today, the fast, repetitive chime of a single bell was heard again, though the campanologists who revived it were afraid it would fall on deaf ears.
“No-one notices church bells any more,” lamented Derrick McRobert, who performed the five-minute ritual single-handed.
The Shrovetide bell was once part of the soundtrack of life across England, but it continues in only a few Yorkshire parishes, Bingley and Scarborough among them. It used to sound at 4am, in order to wake the congregation, but as the centuries went on it got later and later.
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— The Yorkshire Post (@yorkshirepost) February 25, 2020