They are commonly called " Christmas Bells ", because of the shape of their flowers and their flowering time, which coincides with Christmas in Australia.

Some popular Christmas carols are " We Wish You a Merry Christmas ", " Deck the Halls ", " The Twelve Days of Christmas ", " Frosty the Snowman ", " Jingle Bells ", " Silver Bells ", " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ", and " O Holy Night ".

As of 2005, some of the Baby Bells are beginning to merge with long distance phone companies.

* Most local loop service to homes is provided through old-fashioned copper wire, although many of the Baby Bells are beginning to upgrade the so-called " last mile " to fiber optic.

Traveller and writer Fynes Moryson stated in his work An Itinerary that " Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bells, are in reproach called Cockneys.

The use of such a literal definition produces other problems, since the area around the church is no longer residential and the noise of the area makes it unlikely that many people would be born within earshot of the bells anymore, although The Royal London Hospital, Guy's Hospital and St Thomas ' hospital are both within the defined area covered by the sound of the Bow Bells.

The association with Cockney and the East End in the public imagination may be due to many people assuming that Bow Bells are to be found in the district of Bow, rather than the lesser known St Mary-le-Bow church.

The vast majority of the United States are served by LECs called Baby Bells, or RBOCs ( Regional Bell Operating Companies ).

All the Baby Bells, as well as other LECs, typically operate businesses in more than one LATA yet their services of local telephone calls are still defined by LATA boundaries, not their business areas.

However, on his way out of the city, whilst climbing Highgate Hill from modern-day Archway, he hears the Bow Bells of London ringing, and believes they are sending him a message.

The Old Clock Bells are the old 6th ( Abraham Rudhall II, 1725 ), the old 7th ( Abraham Rudhall I, 1696 ), the old 8th ( Abraham Rudhall I, 1696 ) and the old 11th ( Abraham Rudhall I, 1717 ).

There are many small islands in this area, and it is permeated by the Bells River and Jolly River, which empty into the Cumberland Sound to the north, just below Cumberland Island.

The seven episodes featured are Camping In, Up Captain Peacock, Wedding Bells, His and Hers, Coffee Morning, The Hand of Fate and The Clock.

As Dick and cat are making for home, discouraged, by way of Highgate Hill, they hear the Bow Bells from distant London ; Dick believes they are sending him a message to " turn again "-and that he will become Lord Mayor of London.

Some of the early settlers to the area were the Collins family of Chestnut Ridge Farm, for whom Chestnut Ridge Middle School is named after ; the Turner family, for whom Turnersville was named ; the Hurff family, for whom the census designation Hurffville and Hurffville Elementary School are named ; the Heritage family, whose family began the Heritage's Dairy Farm Stores, and for whom the community Heritage Valley is named ; the Morgan family, who were the first residents of the Olde Stone House, a landmark for residents of the Township ; and the Bell Family, who arrived in 1899, turning the 139-year-old grist mill into General Mills, and for whom Bells Lake Park and Bells Elementary School are named.

The village has a United Reformed Church, where Catholic services are also held, and three pubs-the Five Bells, the George and the Bull.

There are five elementary schools in Walterboro: Bells Elementary, Cottageville Elementary, Hendersonville Elementary, Forest Hills Elementary, and Northside Elementary.

Many internationally known carols, e. g. " Silent Night ", " O Tannenbaum " or " Jingle Bells ", are also sung in Greek translation.

Bells and their attendant ropes are so mounted that the ropes will be pulled in a circular sequence, usually clockwise, starting with the lightest ( treble ) bell and descending to the heaviest ( tenor ).

Diving Bells in offshore construction are mainly used in water depths greater than 120 ft, less than that, the divers use a metal basket driven from an " A " frame from the deck.

Bells are usually made of cast metal, but small bells can also be made from ceramic or glass.

This area is normally served by the customer's local telephone provider, which is usually one of the Baby Bells, despite attempts by some CLECs to compete in the local telephone market.

Lithgow is on the Great Western Highway, about or two hours drive west of Sydney, or via the old mountain route, Bells Line of Road, from Windsor.

* Diving Bells in which passengers were submerged into a large tank via hydraulic pistons.

With the breakup of the Bell system in 1984, the U. S. Government imposed rules to allow the Baby Bells and other long-distance providers to compete via " Equal Access.

Long-term plans had included lines on Carling Avenue from the existing Carling station westward to Bayshore and Bells Corners, and from the Rideau Centre south-east to the area of Innes Road and Blair Road via Rideau Street, Montreal Road, and Blair Road.

** Others: Bells are stationary, and only the clappers move via mechanical linkage

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

Bells were not integral to the devices as with the Magnetic Flagmen.

Regional tarot decks commonly feature culture-specific suits ; the German suits of Hearts, Bells, Acorns and Leaves are used through most of Germanic Europe ( Switzerland substitutes Hearts for Roses and Shields for Leaves ), the Latin suits of Cups, Coins, Staves and Swords are common in Italy and Spain, and the French suits familiar to most English speakers are seen in France, Quebec, West Germany and most of the English-speaking world.

" Jingle Bells " is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world.

They are commonly known as Mountain Bells or simply Bells.

The Swan Bells () are a set of 18 bells hanging in a specially built-high copper and glass campanile, commonly known as The Bell Tower or the Swan Bell Tower, in Perth, Western Australia.

Bells Depot, then in an area called Haywood County, was founded in 1855 and was named in honor of William Bell who built the first dwelling in town.

There is a pub across the river in Old Windsor, called the Bells of Ouseley and it has been suggested that this is another archaic spelling of Wraysbury.

* Famed French organist and composer Louis Vierne stayed briefly in Hinckley while on a tour of England, and later wrote a carillon piece for organ called " The Bells of Hinckley ", inspired by a carillon of bells he heard there.

Marie formed her sisters into a singing group called the Fairy Bells Minstrels, singing temperance songs in local missions and church halls, costumed by their mother Matilda Mary Caroline Wood.

Holy Trinity features a tower with six Bells, a cemetery, and a community centre called " The Trinity Centre ".

In 1988 a group of local surfers who were concerned about the human impact that tourism was having on the Bells Beach Surfing Reserve started a group called Surfers Appreciating the Natural Environment.

A public house, the Ring of Bells ( now called the Old Bells ) was opened near the church and this pub is believed to be one of the oldest in Yorkshire.

Apart from the standard adult voices ' Ralph ', ' Fred ' and ' Kathy ', and children's voices like ' Princess ' and ' Junior ', various novelty voices were included, like ' Whisper ', ' Zarvox ' ( a robot voice with melodic background sounds, with a similar voice called ' Trinoids ' also included ), ' Cellos ' ( a voice that sung its text to an Edvard Grieg tune, with similarly-singing voices like ' Good News ', ' Bad News ', ' Pipe Organ '), ' Albert ' ( a hoarse-sounding voice ), ' Bells ', ' Boing ', ' Bubbles ' etc.

Ben Curtis went on to join brother Brandon Curtis in the progressive space rock trio called The Secret Machines and later, the dream pop trio School of Seven Bells.

In the series ' first episode, " Bells ", Blackadder almost marries his manservant Kate, but the wedding is called off when Kate runs off with the best man, Lord Flashheart.

Bella ( or Bells ) is when a player has a king and queen of the trump suit in the same hand and is worth an additional 20 points when called.

Together with Strom, Ahmad leads the multi-faith ensemble Common Chords, whose members include Chatterjee, dhol player Sunny Jain, bassist Mark Dresser, vocalist Elizabeth Schwartz and others He also performed with Oscar and multi Grammy award winner Melissa Etheridge, with whom he recorded a duet called " Ring the Bells ".

The church has a ring of six bells and the local public house is called The Six Bells.

The Originals often called " Motown's best-kept secret ", were a successful Motown R & B and soul group during the late 1960s and the 1970s, most notable for the hits " Baby I'm for Real ", " The Bells " and the disco classic, " Down to Love Town ".

However, the southernmost end of the road is called Church Street Extension, despite being a turn off of Church Street, and being a straight continuation of Bells Ferry Road.

John Cassell was born on 23 January 1817 in Manchester, then in Lancashire ; the son of Mark Cassell, landlord of a public house called " The Ring O ' Bells " at 8 The Old Churchyard, Hunt's Bank, Manchester.

It has two pubs-the Waverley and the Eight Bells, an Italian restaurant called Valentino's and a motorcycle dealership called Dave Death Motorcycles.

An 1897 play based on the book was called, " Ramona, or the Bells of Camulos ".