By Ruth Suggett on 01-Sep-2019 - Laura E. Goodin has been ringing for just over a year at St. James Old Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia.You can find out more about her writing at www.lauraegoodin.com I travel a lot. It’s why I’ll never be rich. And now that I’m a bell ringer, travel has taken on a new allure: grabbing towers. It’s […] Read more
By Malcolm Creese on 30-Aug-2019 - For their annual outing, the ringers at Swaffham Bulbeck and Bottisham in Cambridgeshire traditionally drive around villages in rural areas, but this year was different. We decided to ring in some of the historic churches in the City of London, and I was ‘volunteered’ to do the organising. To make the day interesting, I wanted […] Read more
By Mary Brice on 30-Aug-2019 - Every year, on Remembrance Day, we gather round the Memorial Cross in front of All Saints’ Church in Hilton, Dorset, and read the names of the men who left the Hilton & Ansty Parish Community and did not return. As the centenary of the end of the ‘war to end all wars’ approached, it felt […] Read more
By Ruth Suggett on 28-Aug-2019 - If as well as reading Tower Talk magazine, you enjoy surfing the web for all things ringing, check out a great blog by Mary Jones, a new ringer from Norfolk. Not only will you be entertained by her fluent and witty observations but you will realise that you’re not alone on your ringing journey. The […] Read more
By Molly Holmes on 26-Aug-2019 - I started bell ringing on 6 August as part of the Armistice centenary and in that time I have: •Rung for 95 hours, over a 100-day period; •Rung a bell the same weight as a Mini (1252 kg); •Rung a bell which is 361 years old; •Rung with 20 ringers in my band with a […] Read more
By Beth Johnson on 24-Aug-2019 - There’s lots happening at the Essex tower of Shenfield St Mary’s. The band is thriving with a good mix of young and old, and teaching and learning are very much on the agenda, as well as having lots of fun. In September they enjoyed a great day out in London, described by 13 year old […] Read more
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By Mike Rigby on 22-Aug-2019 - My wife isn’t a ringer, but a classically trained mezzo-soprano who teaches singing and gives the occasional recital; usually it’s just her on stage with a piano accompanist. Bell ringers give performances too, and everything that my wife teaches singers about preparing to perform is analogous to what we ringers need to do – apart […] Read more
By Len Hand on 20-Aug-2019 - “Grab Hold!” That’s what they say at the start of ringing, but I had no idea that church bell ringing was going to grab hold of me the way it has. Just over a year ago, here’s how it started for me. A leaflet in the village shop explained that the “Ringing Remembers” campaign wanted […] Read more
By Pauline Fox on 18-Aug-2019 - Pauline Fox is a learner at All Saints Church,Northallerton, North Yorkshire. She briefly rang as a teenager at her village church and began working towards her ART Learning the Ropesc ertificates in October 2017, when she moved from Northumberland back to North Yorkshire and re-engaged with bell ringing. Her teacher is Jennie Town 5 February […] Read more