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
By Elaine Cheeseman on 08-Aug-2019 - I’m a student at the Birmingham School of Bell Ringing – BSoBR for short. Recently a fantastic Away Day was organised to Warwick, and with the sun shining, I set off, feeling much like one of my favourite Enid Blyton characters starting an adventure. I just hoped that Warwick was ready for us! Our first […] Read more
By Jane Robinson on 06-Aug-2019 - I started learning to ring in March 2018, in Nassington, Northamptonshire. I’ll always be grateful that they took me under their wings to help me learn to competently handle a bell. We have two ART teachers at our tower and both have been extremely supportive and encouraging. They’ve never let us stand still with our […] Read more
By Brian Giles on 01-Aug-2019 - In Tower Talk number 10, Brian Giles described how a new band got off the ground at Weekley, Northants. Here he gives us an update – not without its dramas! Having found Elaine Greatrex, our ART teacher, four new ringers at Weekley were making progress with their ringing. However, eventually the inevitable happened: we broke […] Read more