All Saints Church
Monday, 2 April 2018 in 42m (8–1–11)
1260 April Day / Plain Bob Doubles
(being: 480 APRIL DAY – 4 extents, 780 PLAIN BOB – 6 extents & 60.)
1 Anne Hardwick
2 Paul Sharp
3 Janet M Risdale
4 Bob Hardwick
5 Christopher C P Woodcock (C)
6 Michael Christie
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.
Nocton has close former links with the RAF, with RAF Hospital Nocton Hall being based here in Nocton at the old Hall from 1947 to 1983.
Specially dedicated to the memory of Corporal Jonathan Bayliss aged 41, a Red Arrows engineer at RAF Scampton, who was tragically killed 20th March 2018.
(No. 3 of 4)
(Rung also for the Lincoln Diocesan Guild)

This performance is linked to the event Centenary of the RAF