By Ruth Suggett on 20-Nov-2019 - I was recently asked to be a ‘helper’ on a ringing course and I felt it was a great honour to be asked and to be able to pay back in some small way the countless hours experienced ringers (‘helpers’) have given me in my first year of ringing under the ‘Ringing Remembers’ scheme. I […] Read more
By Niels Benatar on 09-Sep-2019 - In the previous edition of Tower Talk, I described my long-distance relationship with English bell ringing from my home in Braunschweig, Germany. I have now developed an affinity for the Tysoes and the Cotswolds which makes me feel giddy. It’s not just the addictive (six times this year alone!) elopement-like jaunts from Thursday to Saturday, […] Read more
By Mary Brice on 30-Aug-2019 - Every year, on Remembrance Day, we gather round the Memorial Cross in front of All Saints’ Church in Hilton, Dorset, and read the names of the men who left the Hilton & Ansty Parish Community and did not return. As the centenary of the end of the ‘war to end all wars’ approached, it felt […] 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 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 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 Don McLean on 26-Nov-2018 - St Mary’s Kilmood. 6bells, Tenor 2cwt. I coordinated teaching of 17 new ringers using Art Teaching methods by other Art teachers and two highly experienced other teachers ( soon to start on the Art Teacher Training Programme). Kilmood is a light 6 installed by Martin Hough, very like installation at Dunmanway in Co Cork . […] Read more