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4 members of the Dove Team attended the 2025 DAC Bell Advisors' Conference in Leeds. It included a presentation concerning Dove and proposals for a review of bells listed for preservation. @ccringing
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29 Dec 2024
We have improved the way we display the date of a bell. Where undated, we display the founder's period of activity. When submitting an estimated date for a bell please don't provide anything outside the given period or alert us if you believe the period needs correcting.
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We are pleased to announce the inclusion from today of LIGHTWEIGHT RINGS in Dove, which includes the portable rings. @ccringing
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Pleased to welcome Ryan Faulkner-Hatt to the Dove Team. Ryan is a young ringer from Prittlewell in Essex has a particular interest in engineering and bell history. He has joined the team to work on a new project, more of which will be announced in due course.
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Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Great news about the £4.68m Lottery grant to the @churchofengland Conservation Grants Scheme supporting bell conservation & other projects! Looking forward to seeing how the CBC works with this (I am on its Bells Committee). churchofengland.org/media/pr… @ccringing
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4 members of the Dove Team at today's annual meeting of the Central Council of Change Ringers in Exeter. @ccringing @DodgeNeal @dickonlove
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The Great Bells of the British Isles have now been incorporated into the Dove Database! Seen here: dove.cccbr.org.uk/bells?geo_… @ccringing
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12 May 2024
New mapping functionality announced! Map towers by tenor weight or by numbers of ringing reports in BellBoard! dove.cccbr.org.uk/news/339 @ccringing @theringingworld
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Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers retweeted
2 May 2024
Excited to launch my redesigned website on the Church Bells of Kent. Seeks to be a useful antiquarian resource in this field. kent.lovesguide.com
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DOVE FOUNDRY FOCUS for Nov 2023
Projects marked as complete in the month, including Tedburn St Mary here. dove.cccbr.org.uk/projects?r…
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26 Nov 2023
We are pleased to welcome Kye Leaver to the team as our newest Dove Clerk! @KyeRinger
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We've announced a major update in the way frames are recorded. dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?a… @ccringing
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26 Aug 2022
We are pleased to welcome Neal Dodge to the Dove Team. He has already started processing updates, specialising in particular on the queue of frame updates. @DodgeNeal @ccringing
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Bellframe information can now be interrogated on Dove's Guide dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?a… @ccringing
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24 Mar 2022
We are sorry to hear of the death of Dove Master, the Rev'd John Baldwin. dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?a…
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30 Jan 2022
Very pleased to welcome our newest member of the Dove Team. Lewis Benfield from Leics, has joined as a Dove Clerk to help analyse and update Dove with some of the many updates we are gratefully receiving.
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10 Jan 2022
Over 400 edits to Dove this weekend.
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A new Dove feature to customise tower selections has been launched. Instructions on the home page. @ccringing
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Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers retweeted
12 Jul 2021
Two new ways of viewing the results of a tower search are now available: by region (pictured here), by the number of bells and presence of semitone bells. @ccringing #bellringing
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