Our Village – the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee remembered.
It seems like an age ago that we celebrated the Platinum Jubilee. Our thanks to Tim Cotton and his team for organising the celebrations and for producing a video of the celebrations
Village News
Child Okeford Jubilee Celebrations in Pictures
A selection of photos from the recent celebrations.
If you have any pictures of the celebrations that you would like to see included here please send them to [email protected]
Celebratory Bell Ringing
Our bell ringers opened the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations with a successful peal.
Leaper Land: Planning Application appeal dismissed
In June 2020 Leaper Land Promotions applied for planning permission to build 65 houses at a site at Gold Hill. This promotion was widely opposed throughout
Bell Ringers ; A commemorative tribute.
A terrible milestone was passed this week when the death toll of our fellow countrymen from Covid-19 passed one hundred thousand.
In commemoration a bell in St Nicholas church will be rung one hundred times, half muffled, on Sunday 31st January at noon.
In commemoration a bell in St Nicholas church will be rung one hundred times, half muffled, on Sunday 31st January at noon.
Ringers world- VJ Commemoration.
Salisbury Diocesan Guild
On Saturday, 15 August 2020 at Child Okeford, Dorset St Nicholas the following was rung.
Tenor: 10–2–27 in G
72 Stedman Singles
1 Gaynor Cox
2 J Lynne Crighton
3 Robert D Crighton (C)
Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day
Virtual Bell Ringing- VE Day Commemoration
On 8 May, Bob Crighton rang and conducted a Quarter Peal of Plain Bob Doubles on his I-Pad in 42 minutes, using the Mobel App to ring all the other bells. It was rung to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day, and to remember Gunner Douglas Percy Arnold, a Child Okeford bellringer killed in action in WWII. Rung during the Covid 19 lockdown when the Church was closed.
Keeping our village roads safe – can you help ?
After 5 years of service a number of volunteers are standing down at the end of October, which leaves just 6 volunteers
Our new old website !
As many potential visitors to the website in recent months will have discovered we had a problem with our new security certificate which meant that you had a scary warning each time you visited the website, saying it was hacked. Of course it wasn’t it was just one of those technoglitches which our service provider was unable to resolve. As a result hosting of the village website has been moved to a new provider and we are pleased to say they have resolved the problems. What’s more they are a local company [Parrot Creative] in Sturminster Newton. https://www.parrotcreative.co.uk/
The result has been an immediate improvement to the site as the speed has increased dramatically. We hope you enjoy the website.
The result has been an immediate improvement to the site as the speed has increased dramatically. We hope you enjoy the website.
Commemorative Peal
On Sunday 11th November , Armistice day was marked by the countries church bells being rung. Child Okeford did its bit with the bellringers scoring the peal, thereby bringing the Bell project to a successful conclusion. Bob and his team rang 5040 changes of London and Cambridge Surprise Minor in 2 hrs 48 mins.
The band was drawn from East Dorset, and if you want names they are L-R in the photo: Trish Hitchins, Bob Crighton, David Warwick, Tim Collins, Flick Warwick and Philip Rioch
The band was drawn from East Dorset, and if you want names they are L-R in the photo: Trish Hitchins, Bob Crighton, David Warwick, Tim Collins, Flick Warwick and Philip Rioch