A Guild band competed for the Essex Trophy on 14th September. This is a 10-bell contest between Guilds and Associations representing the home counties. The test piece was a touch of 327 Stedman Caters. The results were: 1 Kent County…
GDG 10-bell Striking Competition, St Andrew’s, Farnham, 8 June 2019
Guildford District were the overall winners of the inter-district 10-bell competition which took place at St Andrew’s, Farnham, on 8 June 2019 between teams from Guildford, Farnham and Leatherhead. The test piece was 306 St Clement’s College Bob Caters and…
Westley Award for Church Bell Maintenance
The Chairman of Westley Group, Tom Westley, kindly offers to sponsor an award in connection with bell ringing. The Group started casting tower bells following the closure of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Tom is a metallurgist and engineer, but not…
Holy Trinity’s Peal Of Bells Will Commemorate Great War Soldier And A Former Bellringer
(…taken from: http://www.guildford-dragon.com/2017/11/28/holy-trinitys-peal-bells-will-commemorate-great-war-soldier-rang-church/) By David Rose If you are in Guildford High Street this Saturday morning (December 2, 2017) and hear the bells ringing out from Holy Trinity Church, there will be a good reason why. They will be ringing…
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Holy Week Training Plus – 2017
Hi All, This year we have 3 courses running, the first is practical so is being run the week before Holy Week:- Wednesday 5 April – Stoke-Next-Guildford GU1 1HB – 7.45 – 9.15 pm Advanced Bell Handling for Method Ringing…
GDGYR Practices 2017
Hi everyone, and Happy New Year First of all, the first YR practice for the year will be at Albury on the 14th January at 16:30pm. Postcode for Albury is GU15 9AJ. I have pencilled in the following dates for…
October Guildford District Events
Dear all A reminder that there will be a Surprise practice on the lovely bells at HASLEMERE tomorrow evening (Friday 7th). Thank you to you all for making your towers available for the Quarter Peal event taking place over the…
District Surprise Practice Friday, 7th October – cancelled
Dear All The Farnham District Master has reluctantly decided to cancel the Surprise practice which was to be held on Friday, 7th October at Crondall as there will not be enough ringers to make it viable. Regards Helen Prescott Farnham…
Train the Trainer Training Course – 26th / 27th August
Hi All, I’m arranging another Train the Trainer course for the evening of Friday 26th and all day Saturday 27th August, and it will be run at St Martins of Tours, Epsom. The course consists of 3 sessions. From experience…