After weeks away being refurbished by bellfounders Taylors, Eayre and Smith of Loughborough, the six bells of St Giles' Church Goodrich are back in the tower where they belong.

They will now be re-hung and tuned up ready for a service on the 19th October at 10.30 am when Bishop Michael of Ludlow will preside over their re-dedication. All are welcome at the service.

A lot of hard work from a dedicated group of volunteers moved the bells back into the tower on a windswept day. Miraculously, the rain y held off until all six bells were back safely in the base of the tower.

Once in the tower work began to hoist and re-hang the bells, fitting the ropes down to a correct level and getting it all ready for the bell ringers to get to work.

The bells all have new headstocks, new bearings, new pulleys, wheels and clappers, and some of the bells have been retuned as well to improve the sound.

This is all in a days work for Bellhanger Andrew Ogden of Taylors who spent the first day setting up the pulleys needed to hoist the bells 60 feet to raise them up to their usual home.

Each bell took between 15 to 30 minutes to hoist but the Tenor bell, which weighs half a ton, took 45 minutes since it needed slightly more persuasion to go through the holes in the floorboards. "The guys did a really great job helping to get the bells back in the tower" said Andrew "and they had made a lovely job of cleaning up and painting the works in the tower ready for me to put everything back."

For Eileen Lyon, Secretary of the Parochial Church Council (pictured with the bells on the lorry) this is the culmination of four years hard work applying for grants and co-ordinating the whole process.

"I am so relieved and excited to see them back where they belong," she said, "I can't wait for them to ring out again, the re-dedication service will be, for me, quite a moving experience."

Thanks to all those who worked so hard on the day to move the bells back to where they belong Ben Stephens, Martin Rowberry, Alex Hough, and Norman Morris and of course Andrew Ogden from Taylors.