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All Saints Church
Monday, 2 April 2018 in 42m (9–3–23)
1260 April Day / Plain Bob Doubles
(being: 480 APRIL DAY – 4 extents, 780 PLAIN BOB – 6 extents & 60.)
1 Paul Sharp
2 Janet M Risdale
3 Tess Rowland
4 Yvonne A Woodcock
5 Christopher C P Woodcock (C)
6 Bob Hardwick
Specially arranged and rung to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force on 1st April 1918.
Here in Lincolnshire, the home of the RAF, we are privileged to regularly hear the distinctive roar of the Merlin engines from the Avro Lancaster Bomber based with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby and to see the awesome sight of the Red Arrows acrobatic team practicing over their base at RAF Scampton, the home of the famous Dambusters. We are also honoured to have the new International Bomber Command Memorial & Centre which commemorates Bomber Command, this being ‘Bomber County’. Lincolnshire still plays an important part in the RAF with front-line bases at RAF Waddington & RAF Coningsby, and training at RAF College Cranwell.
Also remembering Ted Woodcock, Uncle of the conductor & brother-in-law to the fourth, who passed away a year ago (1st April 2017). Ted lived all his life in Branston and was married in this Church.
(No. 2 of 4)
(Rung also for the Lincoln Diocesan Guild)
This performance is linked to the event Centenary of the RAF
RAF100 (Image: Christopher C P Woodcock)
Lancaster from BBMF over Lincoln Cathedral (Image: Christopher C P Woodcock)
Red Arrows over RAF College Cranwell (Image: Christopher C P Woodcock)
RAF Waddington (local base) (Image: Christopher C P Woodcock)