Welcome to the updated web-site of the Guildford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers. If you have any comments, suggestions, alterations or potential additions to the website (content/design) please contact the webmaster.
Guildford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers was founded in 1927 and is dedicated to supporting and encouraging traditional bell ringing in the churches of the Guildford Diocese. We have 64 ringing towers divided amongst four Districts and it currently has over 600 members.
The Guild's Bell Restoration Fund is a registered charity and has raised many thousands of pounds for work on maintaining, repairing, restoring and augmenting rings of bells around the Diocese.
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Hi All, THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER! The link below contains the latest edition of Soundbow! This Christmas edition includes a special “Puzzle Corner” – answers in the next issue (deadline: 14th February) – and the all important Guild Dinner poster (please print off and encourage people to buy tickets). Tower Secretaries: can you please [...]
The bells at Capel church will be out of action from Monday 19th September whilst they are being refurbished. After the practice at Capel tomorrow (Wednesday 14th) all practices will be held at Ockley until further notice. Margaret Bale
Dear All, Here is the provisional outing for October – Malcolm is awaiting confirmation from Dorking – otherwise all appears to be ok with the rest. Hope to see as many of you as possible then Jen Attachments http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/13971376/1985180708/name/Outing%202011.pdf
I am delighted to announce that our Guild band have won the Essex Trophy, held at St Peters, St Albans, this afternoon. The band formed from all 4 Districts was conducted by Quentin Armitage, with Linda Armitage, Ruth Blackwell, Anne Anthony, Jackie Roberts, Glenn Poyntz, John Couperthwaite, Martin Turner , Richard Pearce and Chris Rodgers [...]
Guildford District ¼ peal festival is on the weekend of 15th/16th October. We hope to ring ¼ peals in all the towers in the district over that weekend and to give people the chance to ring quarter peals in methods and in towers of their choice. Most of the quarter peals will be rung on [...]
Please find attached the latest version of the Tower list for the Outing on 8th October 2011. The only tower waiting to be confirmed by the church authorities is Dorking (the ringer’s say it should be OK). Please note: I was unable to get Ewell or Epsom Common so I have inserted Epsom ( St Martin of Tours) [...]
My wife Alison and I are planning to cycle to Paris over September 15th-19th, to raise money for the “Helen & Douglas House”, the world’s first children’s hospice. There’s a website at http://my.helenanddouglas.org.uk/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=361247 for those who would generously like to make a donation. (The page is in the name of Mel McSweeney, leader of our [...]
Five bands entered the District 6-bell competition held at Newdigate on 3rd September. Richard Wallis, former Master of the Surrey Association Southern District, a Director of the Ringing World and a ringer at Godstone, agreed at short notice to act as our judge. For the first time this year we operated a handicap system to [...]
Mike Bale