By Ruth Suggett on 18-May-2016 - I just happened to be staying down near High Wycombe for a few days and got in touch with Rose (admin) to see if we could get together, as I always have loads of questions for her! Rose kindly organised a quarter at a very unusual tower, Mentmore, which may well have the most oddstruck bells […] Read more
By Mark Heritage on 17-May-2016 - Organising a tower outing is not as daunting as it first appears and is something I would encourage all ringers to do at some stage. Historically, our tower has only ever organised half day tours and given the other ringing commitments the Branch and indeed the Tower had that morning with a ringing course at […] Read more
By ART Administrator on 12-May-2016 - This was a great course which helped answer the questions I had about coursing order. It started with the different notations for a touch and where to make the calls. It moved on to explain what the coursing order is and showed how different calls effect the coursing order for Bob Minor, including calling from a […] Read more
By Gaye Soule on 11-May-2016 - I recently attended this 3-hour course which was hosted by All Saints’ Church in Marsworth, Bucks and taught by Graham Nabb from A.R.T. I was one of the seven participants, all of whom had varying ringing ability. Some did have limited conducting experience, but no formal training. The course was divided into both theory and […] Read more
By Lesley Belcher on 09-May-2016 - Saturday 7th May saw a celebration of ringing, food and drink at Maids Moreton Church, bringing together the local band, its new ringers and various trainers. What were we celebrating? Well, in mid-January Maids Moreton had hosted a very successful Open Day which elicited a lot of interest in ringing. Advertising was key to getting […] Read more
By Vinni Sullivan on 04-May-2016 - For the last two Sundays the local Wargrave village band has rung rounds on eight for Sunday service; this time last year it was the front 5! Since then we have used the Art Training Scheme, I am a full member of ART and we have four level 2, and four level 1 passes. After […] Read more
By Jane Mellor on 28-Apr-2016 - I attended Module 1 at Marsworth in June 2015 as my start to teaching ringing. Oh Graham, you make it look so easy! Eventually I got started with some learners and realised very quickly that adding about 15 foot extra rope to the exercises shown was not always going to work. Despite this Angela Lazda (pictured […] Read more
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By Louise Dobson on 19-Apr-2016 - If you have a moment I would be grateful if you could go to the following ‘Just Giving’ website page and read my request to help get Cherry Hinton Tower, Cambridge, hand bells restored. You will find the page at: https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/louise-dobson I have only until 22nd March to accept donations to this site. A few pounds […] Read more
By Susan Read on 18-Apr-2016 - I am very proud of our achievements with young ringers. Yesterday we rang a peal with five of them including three first peals at the first attempt. And we are thrilled to be the current Ringing World Bellboard Featured Performance! http://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1002402 We run a very lively practice for young ringers each week in addition to […] Read more