East Dorset Practice and Carol Service 2023
Seven out of the eleven ringers at the Church of St Mary, St Cuthberga and All Saints in Witchampton are still novices and, with support from the Wimborne Minster ringers,
13 January 2024
Seven out of the eleven ringers at the Church of St Mary, St Cuthberga and All Saints in Witchampton are still novices and, with support from the Wimborne Minster ringers,
Last January that Master of the RSCY, Jack Page asked if he could bring a group Cumberlands & friends to our northern home in Tulloch at New Year – we
Lyme Regis band rings a quarter peal for paleontologist Mary Anning, (1799-1847) The first complete Plesiosaur known to science was discovered two hunderd years ago by Lyme fossil hunter, Mary
Congratulations are in order to Graeme Byfield (Warminster) for achieving a run of impressive firsts, from his first quarter peal in over two decades in May last year, to his
When Longburton exchanged their old cast iron clapper (weighing one hundredweight) for a new one with a composite shaft which could finally be rung up right, they were loathed to
The following Quarter Peals were rung during the Guild in December 2023. 48 in total. (Information taken from Bellboard – entries marked Salisbury Diocesan Guild and Salisbury Diocesan Guild of
Howard Page-Clark passed away peacefully on Saturday 8th July 2023 aged 70 years. He took up bellringing following a request made in Church for new ringers to come and learn,
Robin Mears, Tower Captain of Puddletown met Robin Smith of Lytchett Minster at the East Dorset Christmas Jumper practice. They hadn’t met before and you have to agree that the
The Marlborough branch continued a tradition started in 2000 to hold a ringers service at Shalbourne on 1st January. It was a good turn out of ringers this year and we
The bellringers of Codford St Peter stayed up late on 31st December and cheerfully rolled up to the church at ten minutes to midnight, ready to greet 2024. On the stroke