The peal of Bob Major at Leatherhead on Saturday shows that the Pandemic caused no more than a temporary interruption of progress, in one tower at least. Jemima Bleackley and Lizzie Watts scored their first peal in three hours and…
Yorktown – Combine your practice with those of other towers
In the autumn of 2019 we at Yorktown organised a ‘home and away’ combined practice with the band at Epsom Common. It gave both bands the chance to ring somewhere different on a practice and get out of the routine…
Guild towers open for Heritage Open Days 2021
Each year people are encouraged to experience local history, architecture and culture for free. This is an ideal opportunity to showcase bells and bell ringing and do a sly bit of recruitment along the way. Well done to the following…
Epsom, St Martin’s
The Epsom band continued to enjoy chatting in the (virtual) pub as soon as the lockdowns came into force, and we also managed to ring five bells (1 – 3 – 5 – 7 – 9) in the tower whenever…
Crondall – Every tower should have a simulator
Prior to restarting general practices we held some targeted teaching sessions in the tower using the simulator. We have one total newbie who started with us during lockdown using RingingRoom and is now ringing Plain Bob Triples and touches of…
Recruitment advice from Shalford
When I retired/was made redundant, I really thought I ought to recruit a new band, something I had been putting off. Five regulars (and visitors on Mondays) really isn’t good, so I… a. borrowed the Guild’s “Learn the ropes” recruitment…
Gloucester & Bristol Ringing Summer School, 23 – 29 August 2021
During lockdown last year, the Gloucester & Bristol Diocesan Association held a very successful on-line Summer School comprising a wide variety of seminars aimed at ringers hoping to improve their ringing skills, develop their band or just for general interest.…
Service Ringing Restarts at Egham
We have started ringing for services again. The service times have changed and the new ringing times are: 08.30 – 09.00 10.00 – 10.30 Practices are still on Thursdays 19.45-21.15. The first Thursday in the month is set aside for…
Ringing recovery at Banstead
Online ringing did not take off at Banstead, but our small band held together via a weekly Zoom chat instead of a practice night and we were pleased to keep in touch this way with a couple of ringers who…
Recovery at Leatherhead
Where to start? Soon after the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020 our members were asked whether they might like to start a RingingRoom/Zoom group. Uptake was discouraging. Well, zero. Fortunately, there was a great deal more enthusiasm…