Answers to the Quiz With Bells

  1. Lord Peter Wimsey
  2. When will you grow rich (bells of Shoreditch) from Oranges and Lemons
  3. Ebenezer Scrooge, waking up on Christmas morning
  4. “High tide on the coast of Lincolnshire” by Jean Ingelow - the Brides of Enderby
  5. The diary of Samuel Pepys
  6. Poem “Curfew must not ring tonight” by Rose Hartwick Thorpe. Bessie stopped the bell from ringing to save her lover from being executed at curfew.
  7. Akenfield: The Ringing Men (by Ronald Blythe)
  8. “In Memoriam” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson which commemorates Arthur Hallam.
  9. Shropshire. From “A Shropshire Lad “by A. E. Housman
  10. The bell is tolling for Young Ben. From the poem “Faithless Sally Brown” by Thomas Hood