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First peal of Grandsire Caters: 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10

First peal of Grandsire Caters as conductor

All the performers are local and employed by the London and North Western Railway Company.

First peal on the bells since re-casting and augmenting to ten.

Honouring A Benefactor - Bell News page 180

Memorials Unveiled And First Peal Rung

Seldom does it happen that on one day three memorials to one man are unveiled. This was the case, however, on Saturday June 1st, when the late Mr F W Webb, C.E. (a munificent benefactor to the town of Crewe) was so honoured. Beside being a generous supporter of the Cottage Hospital, Mr Webb bequeathed a sum of money sufficient to build and endow an orphanage for the benefit of the orphans of employees at the Crewe Works of the London and North Western Railway Company. He also (when the bells were first hung, 34 years ago) presented the tenor. To mark this munificence Sir Henry B Robertson, of Pale Corwen, has placed a bronze bust of Mr Webb at the Cottage Hospital, while the workmen at the Railway Works and Steam Sheds have subscribed for a similar bust and portrait in oils at the Orphanage. It is the unveiling of these memorials we have the pleasure and satisfaction of recording.

The ceremony at the Hospital was performed by Sir H B Robertson. The bust at the Orphanage was unveiled by Mr Ralph Brocklebank, a director of the L&N-W Railway Company whilst Mr C J Bowen Cooke Chief Mechanical Engineer to the Company, officiated at the unveiling of the portrait.

The local ringers considered the occasion a fitting one to attempt the first peal on the new bells at Christ Church, and a band of railway men brought off a peal of Grandsire Caters, 5003 changes. The record of the peal, with the names of the ringers will be found among other peals in this issue.

Bell News June 8th 1912 No. 1575 Vo. XXXI page 185

Ringing World June 7th 1912 No. 64 Vol. II page 379