The following is a list of people who are known to have been part of the band of bell ringers at Poynton. The dates given are those when there is documentary evidence that the person was a member of the band, but it does not necessarily indicate the full period of service to the church.
The current members of the band have not been included.
Name | Date from | Date to | Notes |
John Mansbridge | 1887 | ||
Henry Gleave | 1887 | 1888 | Leader 1888 |
Ralph Clayton | 1887 | 1890 | |
William Broadhurst | 1887 | 1890 | |
Arthur Woolrich | 1887 | 1889 | |
William Atkinson | 1887 | 1896 | |
Charles Astle | 1887 | 1890 | |
George Potts | 1887 | 1889 | |
Richard Shatwell | 1888 | 1889 | |
Joseph Snape | 1889 | 1898 | Secretary 1898 |
Ernest Taylor | 1889 | ||
James R. Potts | 1889 | 1905 | |
Jabez Butterworth | 1889 | ||
Timothy Cooper | 1889 | Junior member | |
Wm Fidler | 1889 | Junior member | |
Geo Potts | 1889 | Junior member | |
Robert Isherwood | 1889 | ||
William Bowden | 1894 | 1917 | |
James Wood | 1896 | 1930 | Conductor 1905, died 1931 |
T Potts | 1905 | ||
Samuel Smith | 1905 | 1939 | Died 1956 |
Joseph Armstrong | 1905 | 1914 | |
W Isherwood | 1905 | ||
Daniel McAll | 1905 | 1939 | Died 1943 |
W Armstrong | 1905 | ||
James Armstrong | 1905 | ||
E Clayton | 1905 | ||
M Worsencroft | 1905 | ||
W Lees | 1905 | ||
J A Floyd | 1905 | ||
E Wood | 1905 | 1914 | |
J Clarke | 1905 | ||
John Thomas Lloyd | 1914 | 1917 | |
Thomas Downes | 1914 | 1937 | Secretary 1917 – 1918 |
William Bailey | 1917 | 1930 | |
George Turner | 1917 | 1946 | Secretary 1925 – 1945 |
Harry Henshall | 1918 | 1919 | |
Arthur Snape | 1918 | 1973 | Died 1973 |
John Griffies | 1919 | 1949 | Secretary 1946 – 1948 |
T Hodgkinson | 1919 | 1920 | |
Harry Bailey | 1932 | 1950 | |
John Clough | 1932 | 1939 | |
John Clough | 1932 | 1934 | |
Samuel Mottershead | ? | Died 1944 | |
Harry Jackson | 1926 | 1939 | |
Mrs Carter | 1943 | 1955 | |
Roger Griffies | 1943 | 1948 | |
Alec Brown | 1943 | ||
Kenneth Yearsley | 1943 | 1946 | |
Leara William Lane | 1944 | 1946 | |
Eddie Houldsworth | 1944 | 1954 | |
Raymond Souster | 1944 | ||
Ronald Burton | 1946 | ||
Idris Massey | 1947 | 1949 | |
Brian Hallworth | 1947 | 1952 | Secretary 1949 – 1951 |
Joan Howard | 1948 | ||
Roy Boardinan | 1949 | 1958 | |
Albert Foden | 1949 | ||
Brian Oliver | 1949 | ||
Lesley Gosling | 1949 | 1954 | |
Walter Shaw | 1951 | ||
Margaret Hall | 1952 | 1957 | |
Ivor Jenkins | 1952 | 1978 | Secretary 1952 – 1975, died 2019 |
Sidney Hough | 1953 | 1993 | Died 1993 |
Miss E Green | 1954 | ||
Miss K Green | 1954 | ||
Miss S Bannister | 1954 | ||
Brian Schofield | 1955 | 1983 | Died 2008 |
Timothy Allen | 1958 | 1961 | |
Michael Gardner | 1958 | ||
Roger Steer | 1958 | 1966 | |
Graham Stott | 1958 | 1959 | |
Douglas Welch | 1961 | 1963 | |
Rosemary Eccleston | 1962 | 1965 | |
Christopher Jenkins | 1962 | 1976 | |
Robert Jackson | 1962 | ||
Barry Smith | 1962 | ||
Thomas Vernon | 1962 | 1963 | |
Lawrence Young | 1962 | 1963 | |
Jean Dale | 1964 | ||
Ruth Lewis | 1969 | 1973 | |
Barbara Massey | 1969 | 1970 | |
Anne Whetton | 1969 | 1970 | |
Roland Jenkins | 1969 | 1981 | Secretary 1976 – 1980, died 1995 |
Steven Blackburn | 1971 | 1973 | |
Anne Butler | 1971 | 1978 | |
David Butler | 1971 | 1994 | |
Geoffrey Dyson | 1971 | 2007 | Died 2007 |
Paul Flitcroft | 1972 | 1977 | |
Ian Powell | 1972 | 1975 | |
Paul Clayton | 1974 | ||
Patricia Jenkins | 1974 | 1976 | |
Ruth Shrigley | 1974 | 1979 | |
Louis Marsh | 1975 | 1980 | |
Michael Groves | 1977 | 1979 | |
Anna Stock | 1979 | 1982 | |
Nigel Stock | 1979 | 1980 | |
Michael Davies | 1980 | 1982 | |
Nicholas Andrews | 1980 | ||
Elspeth Friend | 1980 | 1991 | |
Leslie Watkins | 1981 | Died 1981 | |
Wilfred Scarrott | 1981 | 1997 | |
Peter Spencer | 1981 | 2006 | Secretary 1981 – 1987, died 2006 |
Heather Scarrott | 1982 | 1984 | |
Deborah Spencer | 1982 | 1989 | |
Sarah Spencer | 1982 | 1987 | |
Claire Battle | 1983 | 1989 | |
Anne Agnew | 1984 | 1988 | |
Christopher Armes | 1984 | 1993 | |
Kirsty Friend | 1984 | 1988 | |
Zoe Friend | 1984 | 1992 | |
Frank Johnson | 1984 | 2004 | Died 2004 |
Janine Mitchell | 1986 | 1988 | |
William Hibbert | 1986 | 1994 | |
Stuart Armes | 1988 | 1994 | |
Audrey Leech | 1988 | 1997 | Died 1997 |
David Brooke | 1994 | 2003 | |
Freda Cleaver | 1994 | 1995 | |
David Gaskell | 1997 | 2008 | |
Quilly Masters | 1997 | 2000 | |
Brian Moore | 1997 | 2002 | |
Bill Hall | 1998 | 2006 | Died 2006 |
Chris Evans | 1999 | 2000 | |
Jo Evans | 1999 | 2000 | |
Peter Pugh | 1999 | 2008 | |
Matt Dyson | 2001 | 2015 | |
Anne Mitchell | 2002 | 2010 | formerly Allwright |
Stefan Hafner | 2002 | ||
Nick Kirwin | 2002 | 2006 | |
Rachael Myers | 2002 | ||
Rebecca Dyson | 2003 | 2018 | |
Ben Huggett | 2010 | 2015 | |
Christopher Johnson | 2012 | 2015 |