On Monday evening May 12th His Excellency The Lt Governor joined the bellringers for their weekly practice. He came up the belfry specifically to award those of us who had rung for the Coronation of King Charles III on May 6th 2023 with their Coronation medals.
His Excellency explained that the medals were being awarded in recognition of the enormous effort various folk had made in volunteering on the day & whose combined contribution had done so much to make the event so very special. The casting of the medals had been done in secret, it being very much the case that the medals were in recognition of effort undertaken when there had been no expectation of reward
Medal recipients absent from the photo: Jane Trought, Logan Lord, Martin Jacques & Pam Sargent
Photo, left to right: Nor James, Gail Norwood, June Banister, His Excellency The Lt Governor, Jeremy Penrose-Stupart, Heather Winder, Aileen Wilson, Sally Vos, Donald Hughes, Helen McGregor, Peter Bevis