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
By Corinne Rule on 26-Apr-2016 - Read more
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
By Nicki Lang on 04-Apr-2016 - My mentor, Rob Perry and I had rung for some years at Marksbury, near Bath, but out of the blue one day all ringing was stopped there due to frame movement causing cracking of the tower. To suddenly have our bells pronounced ‘unringable’ and to have no ‘home’ tower is a really strange feeling. We […] Read more
By Gaye Soule on 22-Mar-2016 - For the past three years I have participated in our annual, district striking competition – the first time being six months after commencing to learn to ring. Each time our tower, comprised of relatively new ringers, has entered the rounds/call changes category. I am reminded each year what a great learning activity this proves to […] Read more
By Alan Burlison on 20-Mar-2016 - One of the things Chris, my ringing teacher, has encouraged us to do is to visit other towers. So far I’ve rung at eight different towers, and although at times it’s been quite daunting I have found it helpful. The bells in each tower all have their own ‘personality’, both individually and as a group […] Read more
By Christine Purnell on 18-Mar-2016 - After an extensive three page recruitment cover in The Western Daily Press and advertising in our local Towers, we were delighted to enrol several young ringers (10 and 12 yrs old). They all bonded well and our Young ringers group (calling themselves The Edingers), started at Edington Ringing Centre in Wiltshire during the Easter Holidays […] Read more
By Alan Burlison on 06-Mar-2016 - I’ve recently begun ringing Plain Hunt Doubles and when I did it was suggested I started on the third bell. The reasoning behind that was that when ringing on third the order that you ring over the other bells is 4,5,1,2,4,5,Lead,Lead,1,2 which means that you are simply ringing over the bells in order. That means […] Read more