| Title | St. Oswald’s Bells |
| Date | 1946 |
| Location | Guiseley |
| Photo ID | P963 |
| Comment | See below … |
The bells of St. Oswald’s were to be recast and rehung with new fittings in a new cast iron frame by Gillet & Johnston. They were re-dedicated on August 3rd 1946 by the Right Honourable Bishop Stanton Jones DD.
Clergy and church officers, from the left:
William Brooke, (Church Warden) James Downs, (Bell fund committee)
Archdeacon Sydney Arthur Lowe, Rector of Guiseley.
Right Honourable Stanton Jones, Bishop of Sodar & Man, former Archdeacon of Bradford DD, Arthur Cyril Walsh, (Bell fund committee)
Reginald Rawnsley, Rector’s Church Warden.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P964A – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
From the left, William Brooke, Rector Of Guiseley Archdeacon S A Lowe, Right Honourable Stanton Jones, Bishop of Sodar & Man DD,
Reginald Rawnsley.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P964B – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
From left to right: James Downs, Rector of Guiseley Archdeacon S A Lowe
Right Honourable Stanton Jones, Bishop of Sodar & Man DD,
Arthur Cyril Walsh.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P965 – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
Scaffolding on top of the church tower, erected to enable the church bells to be safely lowered to the ground.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P966A – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
Gillet & Johnston Ltd, Bell Founders & Clockmakers of Croyden, the lorry holds nine bells from the church, eight old bells from St. Oswald’s and in the top right hand side of the lorry is the bell from the old Orchard Street School.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P966B – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
The donor of the photo, Brian Haigh says the building in the background is Mrs Kellet’s sweet shop, the choirboys would buy sweets there on Sundays and eat them during the sermon, this was before 1939.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P967 – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
In this view men from the foundry are moving a bell down the church path towards the Lychgate on the right.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P968 – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
Gillet & Johnstone foundry men handling a bell.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P969 – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
Foundry men with Thomas Myers Thompson, Sexton and retired church verger of St. Oswald’s, he was also a bell ringer, so interested to watch the removal of the bells.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P970A – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
The Rector of Guiseley Archdeacon S A Lowe with the eight bells before they went to the foundry to be recast.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P970B – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
From the left, Roland Thompson chairman of the bell committee,
Archdeacon Lowe, Arthur Cyril Walsh Bell committee and bell ringer.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P971 – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
3rd August 1946 – Photo taken on St, Oswald’s Festival Day, after a ceremony to re-dedicate the newly recast church bells, the bells were placed across the chancel from pulpit to lectern. With the Rector of Guiseley Archdeacon Lowe is the Right Honourable Bishop Stanton Jones DD.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P972 – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
3rd August 1946 – The re-dedication of the church bells which took place during St. Oswald’s Festival.
From left to right are:
Right Honourable Bishop Stanton Jones DD, Arthur Cyril Walsh, James Downs, Archdeacon Lowe, Rector of Guiseley. Mr Walsh is standing behind the tenor bell (weight 16 & 3/4 CWT, 7lbs), this bell was dedicated to Charles Philip Walsh, killed in 1944 in Burma. He was the eldest son of Arthur C Walsh.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P973 – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
3rd August 1946 – Interior of the church on the day the church bells were re-dedicated, from the left are:
Reginald Rawnsley, Rector’s Warden, William Brooke, Archdeacon Lowe Rector of Guiseley, Right Honourable Bishop Stanton Jones DD.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
P974 – St. Oswald’s Bells, 1946.
St. Oswald’s Bells – 1946
A bell being lowered from the church tower watched by foundry workers from Gillet & Johnston.
Donated by Brian Haigh.
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Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 02 November 2023.
Last updated: 03 November 2023.
