Ring Out Those Bells!

Here is another bell I have in my collection. This Angel is holding a bell. Not a tuned handbell but a bell nonetheless. We think of Angels announcing good news! Bells are rung to announce good news too.

Bells are rung to announce the end of a year and the beginning of a New Year. People often ring bells on New Year’s Eve. The expression ‘Ringing in the New Year’ refers to an old tradition of celebrating beginnings and endings with bells. In Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Poem called ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells’, the second stanza is this…

           Ring out the old, ring in the new,

                 Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

                 The year is going, let him go;

           Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Cancer patients will celebrate the end of their cancer treatment by ringing a bell three times.

           Ring this bell,

           Three times well,

           Its toll to clearly say,

           My treatment is done,

           This course is run,

           And I am on my way!

During the height of the pandemic people in many cities applauded frontline workers by clanging pots and pans each day and in many places bells rang out from churches and school buildings every evening as well.

Church bells rang out in many cities in the UK on the eve of the COP26 Conference to welcome world leaders and to remind them of the climate emergency facing the future of our planet.

In England, the church bells at Westminster Abbey would ring out to announce the Birthday of the 12 Senior Royals but due to the financial restraints caused by the pandemic it was decided to only announce the birthdays of the Queen and Prince Charles starting in January 2022.

Wow! When I started writing today's blog I didn't know what interesting facts I would discover. Hope you enjoyed this too.

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