Bands from the Guild’s four Districts gathered at St Peter’s, Old Woking, on Saturday 11 May to take part in the 8-bell striking competition, ringing a touch of three courses of Middlesex Bob Triples. In his summing up, the judge,…
Contacting towers and Guild officers by email
All Tower Contacts and Guild Officers have ‘anonymised’ email addresses. We don’t put the names, postal addresses or email addresses of tower contacts under the details for each tower, to help to protect privacy. Instead, each tower contact’s email address…
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…
A successful year – informal summary of Feb 2019 Exec Meeting
The big event of 2018 had been the ‘Ringing Remembers’ commemorations for the centenary of the armistice ending the Great War. Along with this had been the recruitment of many new ringers – the most successful national recruitment campaign since…
Guild Report Now Available
You can now download a copy of the Guild Report for 2018 (i.e. activities for 2018 and officers for 2019). Please note, for data security you will need the password each time you open the report. Please contact your District…
Guild 6-Bell Contest 2019
The Guild’s annual 6-Bell striking contest was won by Epsom St Martin’s at Albury on Saturday 9th March. The results, along with a summary of the judge’s comments, are as follows. First: 15 faults, Band 7. Epsom St Martin’s. Plain…
Holy Week Training 10th & 16th April 2019
Please see the attached poster for details of 10th April – Raising and Lowering at Stoke next Guildford 16th April – Belfry Maintenance at Ockham 16th April – Basic Bob Calling – St John’s Church Hall, Merrow 16th April –…
Guild AGM on Saturday 9th March 2019
Please see the attached formal Notice and arrangements, plus the Agenda for the Guild AGM. The Guild’s 6-bell striking competition will be held at Albury at 2 pm. Names for tea should be provided as shown in the Notice by Wednesday…
Ringing Remembers at Leatherhead
On Sunday, November 11th for the first time in many years the baffles in the bell chamber that are normally closed to limit the sound of Leatherhead’s bells were opened on all four sides of the tower so that the…
GDPR – Blog of October 2018 Exec Committee
Members will have noticed that the Guild’s website was down for a couple of weeks in October/November, as a result of discussions on the GDPR at the last Exec meeting. The GDPR is a very broad legal framework intended to…