By ART Safeguarding Administrator on 03-Apr-2020 - As part of becoming a member of ART you are asked for a Disclosure and Baring Service Certificate (DBS). As sadly no ringing is taking place at the current time, it has been decided not to suspend the membership of anyone who has failed to obtain a current (less than five year old) DBS certificate […] Read more
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News from the Association of Ringing Teachers - Read more
News from the Association of Ringing Teachers - Read more
By ART Administrator on 25-Mar-2020 - Back in the year 2000, many people took up bell ringing as part of a national campaign to get bells around the country ringing for the Millennium. One of these new recruits was Sarah Hughes of Layer de la Haye in Essex, a tower whose bells were restored in 2000, after many years of silence […] Read more
By ART Administrator on 20-Mar-2020 - We are extremely fortunate to have a ring of 12 at Truro Cathedral, which is the only ring of 12 in Cornwall. They are probably one of the most difficult rings of 12 in the country due to their excessive draught and audibility issues. We are also limited by the extremely busy Cathedral diary to […] Read more
By Ruth Suggett on 18-Mar-2020 - Here are a some phrases you’re likely to hear in the tower. We’ve taken out the vowels and put in some misleading gaps! Have fun! 1.KPYRB CKST RKSN! 2.WHC NRN GNSNDY? 3.STRTCHP HGHTHND STRKE 4.BNDTLWR5.GPLNB BDBLS This little quiz first appeared in the January edition of Tower Talk Read more
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By Annie Longstaff on 15-Mar-2020 - Over the last three years, I have been circumnavigating the globe with my husband in an Oyster 45 Sailing Yacht, and since June this year returned back to England; not only to regain my land-legs, but to catch up with family and friends and to renew my love of singing. Even in retirement I still […] Read more
By Mike Rigby on 12-Mar-2020 - The photo shows two ringers from my tower who both damaged their right foot within a few days of each other,thus forming what they chose to call ‘Club Foot’. They found that they could still enjoy ringing, even wearing a surgical boot, provided they added a little extra height to their other foot. But it […] Read more