By Niels Benatar on 14-Jan-2020 - Take a lot of Tysoe, namely David Bell and David Rake as my mentors, an idealistic and ideal band in Lighthorne and one crazy 63 year-old-American hand surgeon, bent on at least trying to learn the ropes, handstroking and backstroking his way between Braunschweig via Hanover to London-Heathrow and Tysoe six times a year and […] 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 Trisha Hawkins on 15-May-2019 - It is devastating to see your local church being ravaged by flames, as I did in 1978 when St Mary’s Barnes was burned to a shell. It was never established whether this was from an arson attack or an electrical fault, but St Mary’s Putney had suffered a similar fate a few years earlier, from […] Read more
By Ginette Pardoe on 05-Oct-2018 - I am the Tower Captain at Broseley in Shropshire, where we have a band of ringers I’ve recruited and taught over the last 6 years. One of our ringers, Jan, recently told me about the plight of a local four year old boy from Broseley, Zac Oliver, who has a rare form of leukaemia. Zac’s […] Read more
By Rosemary Pegrum on 17-Jun-2018 - In September 2015 after gaining my LtR Level 1, I wrote a piece for the magazine entitled “Why I nearly sacrificed bell ringing for the sake of my teacher”. So long did it take me to put the hand and back strokes together and have some kind of a control over the bell, I decided […] Read more
By Sue Marshall on 09-Feb-2016 - It all began with an email from Lucy to Graham stating her enthusiasm to do more ringing and in particular ring some spliced surprise major. So, on 28th August 2008, John Gwynne, Lucy Gwynne, Sue Marshall and Graham Nabb rang their first quarter peal together. It was Cambridge, Beverley and Surfleet at Keresley. Since then, […] Read more
By Kevin Musty on 24-Oct-2015 - Emma started her ringing journey back in 2010, her teacher was Darran Ricks. She should admired by all, because during her learning to ring and other activities, she had many trips to hospital to have surgery on her back. Obviously this involved long periods of being absent from ringing, but her determination has paid off […] Read more
By Phillip George on 21-Sep-2015 - We have two ringers coming to the end of their D of E bronze award, and within the last week another young ringer has asked us to support him in this scheme. Our first ringer is Jonathan who will this week be successfully completed his bronze level. He started to learn bell handling in March […] Read more
By Barbara Le Gallez on 11-Aug-2015 - David Waterhouse started learning to ring in August 2014 and recently rang his first quarter peal (tenor behind), after just less than a year. David had to work very hard at bell handling at first, but his persistence has been well rewarded and he is making great strides in his bell ringing. Shortly after the […] Read more
By Simon Head on 31-Jul-2015 - I thought that people may be interested in the story behind the silent and unconducted quarter of Bob Doubles rung at Woughton on the Green (Bucks) on Sunday 31st August. A few months previously we discussed the idea of ringing a silent and unconducted quarter peal. One ringer had always wanted to have a go […] Read more