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
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By Grace Wilson on 14-Aug-2019 - A special day out was arranged in the Cotswolds for ringers Graham Nabb (who loves steam railways) and his wife Sue Marshall (who loves to walk), with bell ringing friends and family being invited along to ring with them and enjoy the day together.We met on a beautiful April day at the gorgeous gate to […] Read more
By Susan Read on 12-Aug-2019 - The city of Oxford was an ideal choice for our Big Day Out as it not only offers a variety of historic and memorable towers but is relatively easy for 19 young ringers and their parents to get around.Our first two towers were the light tens at St Thomas and St Mary Magdalen. Ringing was […] Read more