Acknowledgements

The information for many parts of the History section on this website was compiled and by Kate and David Crennell.

The Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers (ODG) Publicity Officer at the time was Bobbie May. Bobbie has driven hundreds of miles photographing churches and has persuaded many ODG members to send us photographs and details of their towers.

The referees nominated by the ODG to oversee the creation of the original CD project from which a lot of the information has been taken to create these web pages were:

Tony Crabtree, Alan Griffin, Bobbie May, Lorna Smale and Tim Pett.

We greatly appreciated their various skills in correcting the information,especially Alan Griffin, who has taken on the enormous task of proof reading the almost one thousand files.

Many other members of the ODG have contributed to this work. We are particularly grateful to Branch Secretaries, Ringing Masters and tower captains who have helped us with local information on tower facilities.

Tower correspondents help is acknowledged on the pages describing their tower. We wish to thank the following individuals who have made contributions to many towers:

• The Guild Librarian, Doug Beaumont, for his patience and the loan of reference works about bells.
• Reverend David Birt for his list of churches which he has visited in his capacity as clocks advisor to the Oxford Diocesan Advisory Committee.
• Andrew Bull for details of bell weights, gear etc, in Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
• Christopher J N Dalton for bell data of Waddesdon, Bucks.
• George A. Dawson for the list of 'Listed bells' and some weights of bells in Bucks.
• Chris McKay of the Antiquarian Horological Society for information about turret clocks
• Chis Pickford for details of bell weights, gear etc, particularly in Buckinghamshire
• Tony Wood of the British Sundial Society provided us detailed information on the mass dials in the Diocese.
• Rachael Sherlaw-Johnson for her design of the background picture for the Front Cover of the insert for the CD case. She holds the copyright for this picture.

We also also grateful to the following organisations who have generously given us permission to reproduce parts of their publications in this work.

• The Sharpe Trustees.
• The Ringing World

The Sharpe Trustees

The Sharpe Trustees website

These manage two charitable trusts set up following the death of Frederick Sharpe who wrote many books about bells. We are grateful to them for giving us permission to use information taken from his books for this work.

These are mainly the inscriptions on older bells. We also give page numbers in the books for particularly interesting bells of historical interest.

The Sharpe Trusts were described in 'The Ringing World' June 11, 2004 page 559 where contact details can be found for those who want further information about the Trusts.

Copies of some of the books are still available, contact John Baldwin via the Sharpe Trustees website for ordering details.

To view the Sharpe Collection in Oxford contact Tim Pett, 20 St. Amand Drive, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 5RQ.