By Barbara Le Gallez on 06-Jul-2016 - … were my thoughts as a keen novice ringer. I had been observing older ringers, once very competent, who had been stuck teaching beginners for so long that they had forgotten how to ring anything remotely complicated. “I won’t let that happen to me”, I determined. Ten years on, trailing a long string of support […] 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 Julie Doman on 14-Oct-2015 - I started to learn bell-ringing 2 years ago, not all that far off my 60th birthday – and as weeks went by, I was hearing people talk about ‘peals’, where they rang non-stop for 3 hours or so. To me, it seemed an impossible task – like flying to the moon! For me, progress seemed […] Read more