Volunteers start petition to allow well-known bells to be rung over festive period after cathedral informs them their services are not required
The bells at York Minster are to fall silent for the festive period after the cathedral’s management sacked all of its voluntary bellringers without warning. The well-known bells will not be heard again until the new year,meaning a rupture with the tradition of ringing them on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve as well as on Remembrance Sunday.
At a special meeting on Tuesday night, all 30 volunteers were told that bellringing activity at the minster would cease with “instant effect” while the management recruited a paid head bellringer, and who would select new volunteers in 2017. Related: I was a bellringer at York Minster. We want to know why we were sacked | James Sanderson Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com