Category: News

2024 LEBRF Open Day Sherborne
LEBRF Open Tower Day Report

The 2024 Guild Open Tower Day held on Saturday, 17th August in support of the Guild’s Llewellyn Edwards Bell Restoration Fund was a great success and raised a total of

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Old Lad of Westwood
Westwood Bells

Inspired by Jack Pease’s Tower of the Month articles, Anne Willis shares with us the interesting history of the bells at Westwood, Wiltshire in the Devizes Branch, where she is Tower Captain.

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Who’s who? Guild Treasurer

Who’s who in the Guild? And what do they do? Tim PhillipsGuild Treasurer & Membership Secretary The first in an occasional series which intends to shine some light onto the

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Lily
Peter Baker HLM RIP

It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that Peter Baker HLM has died at Salisbury District Hospital following a fall on Friday 26 July.  Peter attended

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Vicki Rowse
Master’s Message

I must start by congratulating Go Bellistic for their fantastic achievement in the Ringing World National Youth Competition. Ten of our young ringers from across the Guild took part in

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Group photo at St Olave
SDGR Go Bellistic! in London

On Saturday 6th July, ten young ringers plus family members and supporters travelled up to London for the 2024 RWNYC (Ringing World National Youth Contest). The morning was quite rainy

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Book of the Month
Book of the Month

The Learning Curve – volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4 Edited by John Harrison. “The Learning Curve” was first launched as a regular monthly Ringing World feature back in June

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Charminster, St Mary the Virgin
Tower of the Month: Charminster

Charminster, St Mary the Virgin (Photo: Philip Ledwith, via Historic England Missing Places Project) This month’s featured tower comes from the heart of the Dorchester Branch, the idyllically-sited Church of

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Bradford on Avon
June Quarter Peals

The following 42 Quarter Peals were rung in the Guild during June 2024. (Information taken from Bellboard – entries marked Salisbury Diocesan Guild and Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers) Saturday, 1 June 2024

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Guild Executive Meeting Report

Report on the Executive Committee meeting at Tisbury on Saturday 20th July 2024. We agreed the appointment of Martin Ostler from Sturminster Newton in the Mere Branch as acting Assistant

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Guild Festival & AGM 9th May 2026 at Calne