The City of Lincoln Company of Civic Bell Ringers
Parish and Civic Church of St Mary-le-Wigford
Tuesday, 3 April 2018 in 42m (6–1–17)
1272 Single Court Place Minimus
(being 53 extents)
1 Robert H Harvey
2 Yvonne A Woodcock
3 Michael Christie
4 Christopher C P Woodcock (C)
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 overlooking the City which commemorates Bomber Command, this being ‘Bomber County’.
Lincoln has strong links with the RAF, having RAF Waddington based just south of the City and RAF Scampton based just north of the City, both bases being granted the honour of the Freedom of the City. Also the sight of Lincoln Cathedral for returning pilots and crews has always been a welcome sight symbolising they had returned safe and were back home!
Lincolnshire still plays an important part in the RAF with front-line bases at RAF Waddington & RAF Coningsby, and training at RAF College Cranwell.
(Rung also for the Lincoln Diocesan Guild)

This performance is linked to the event Centenary of the RAF

Church Bellhangers of Distinction