An exciting Mini-Roadshow will be held at Goldsmiths College, east London, as part of the Central Council Meeting taking place that weekend. This includes a talk on ‘Building a bell sound’ by our very own Bill Hibbert. Also, I believe…
An unusual invitation
I have done some fairly unusual things as a ringer, but undoubtedly the most unlikely ever took place in May when I represented the Guild at a reception at the residence of the American Ambassador in Regent’s Park. So unexpected…
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…
Bell Restoration Predominates – an informal blog of the April 2019 Exec Committee
This meeting was fairly short, with Bell Restoration projects predominating, as at other recent Executive Committee meetings. Lynn Boniface was welcomed as the newly-elected Guild Secretary. Holy Trinity, Guildford, is a historic tower with historic bells – four being 1769…
Guild 8-Bell Striking Competition, 11th May 2019
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…