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Towers and Spires – Robert Walker

Online via Zoom

Cambridgeshire has a great variety of building materials and building traditions from the cobbles of the south to the fine limestone of the north. Robert will look at the way the pattern of building has interacted with the progress of style and wealth through time, leading to a delightful variety of towers in scale, form and local […]

Free

Turret Clocks – Chris McKay

The Willows, Low Bank, Mepal, Ely

Horologist, author of books on clock care, repair and maintenance and clocks consultant to Salisbury Diocesan Advisory Committee Chris has a passion for the preservation of mechanical church clocks.  He will explain what can be found in a typical clock installation in a church, then a history of clock development and types will be presented.  […]

Free

Change Ringing Explained – Gareth Davies

Online via Zoom

This talk will provide an illustrated introduction to the very English art of change-ringing: what it is, when it originated, how it works, and how it has developed over four hundred years. In addition, it will canter through the parts that change-ringing and change-ringers have played in British culture, looking at some of its contributions […]

Free