By Mike Rigby on 10-Mar-2020 - One of the things I do for my (ringing) sins is to organise the Thursday morning training sessions at the Edgehill Ringing Centre in Kineton, Warwickshire. We run two sessions of about 75mins each, each with two trainees who take it in turn to ring with a ‘good’ band around them. Of course, this means […] Read more
By Phil Ramsbottom on 08-Mar-2020 - Phil is a teacher at the Birmingham School of Bell Ringing and is passionate about getting the basics right for every new ringer, especially bell handling and ropesight. Here he shares some thoughts on moving onto Plain Bob Doubles. Plain Bob Doubles has become the “go to” method for beginners to take their first steps […] Read more
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By Mary Jones on 06-Mar-2020 - Re-reading something I wrote a while ago on Plain Hunting, I realise what a remarkably long way I have come in the past six months. What seemed tremendously difficult then, strikes me as trivial now. I only hope that the same alchemy will occur now I’m embarking on Plain Bob Doubles. Einstein once said that […] Read more
By Judy Farrimond on 03-Mar-2020 - If you are relatively new to ringing and are lucky enough to have found an ART-accredited teacher to take you through Learning the Ropes (LtR) Levels 1 to 5, then achieving Level 5 should be your target. When you achieve Level 5, you will be invited to attend the ART Masterclass in Birmingham. This is […] Read more
By Mike Keeble on 28-Feb-2020 - As a group of former students of Birmingham School of Bell Ringing, we began to realise that even though we had rung a good number of quarter peals between us, we were still struggling. In many of the quarter peals we had each rung, our mistakes were corrected by the experts around us. So when […] Read more
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By Margaret Burling on 24-Feb-2020 - At St Giles, Sheldon in Birmingham we have been organizing special monthly practices for some time. The main aim of these is to improve our Sunday Service ringing. In August we concentrated on St Simon’s Doubles and are now able to ring a reasonably well-struck plain course. Our recent September practice helped one of our […] Read more
By Debbie Phipps on 23-Feb-2020 - Viv started to ring as a school girl and had gaps of not ringing. When she heard we were following a recognised scheme – the ART scheme she returned to help with our new learners. She always said she would help as others had helped her but she would not be going beyond Plain Hunt….until […] Read more