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 the 13th competition held in London. Based at St Marys Bow (the famous Bow Bells), they had a fabulous day out touring around 6 City […] |
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LEBRF Open Day – Tickets available
Saturday, 17th August 2024 Advance tickets are available online for our annual tower open day in aid of the Guild’s Llewellyn Edwards Bell Restoration Fund. This year the day is centred around the county town of Dorchester and includes 16 towers, some of which have not been available for open days for many years, with […] |
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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 and our schedule looked almost impossible, but we were still up for it! On arriving at our first tower (St Dunstan in the West on […] |
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Thomas Hardy’s mystery bells
In 1925, Thomas Hardy published a poem about the recasting and rehanging of an unnamed ring of eight bells in which he leaves the reader in no doubt about his scathing disapproval of the outcome. Inscriptions For A Peal of Eight Bells After a Restoration I Thomas Tremble new-made me Eighteen hundred and fifty-three Why […] |
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Skills Development
A foundation skill for good ringing is the ability to listen to the bells and identify striking imperfections. At first this seems an absolute impossibility – our brains are so overwhelmed by the need to handle the rope and try to see the other ropes to follow, that we believe we simply can’t hear the […] |
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Interesting Miscellany
Hanging on the wall of the Bradpole ringing chamber in West Dorset is this fascinating notice from bellfounders Llewellins and James of Bristol who appear to have flourished between 1870 and 1940. Presumably it was supplied when the bells were rehung in 1911. It makes fascinating reading, illuminating procedures common in an era of oak […] |
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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 1999 and still pops up from time-to-time. Volumes 1 to 4 are a compilation of the articles from 1999 to 2007, collected together in four […] |
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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 St Mary the Virgin in Charminster. Located amongst stone cottages and nestled by the quaint River Cerne a few miles north of the county town […] |
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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 Hamworthy (182 Freshwater Drive), Dorset 1264 Spliced Plain Major (2m) Sunday, 2 June 2024 Wimborne Minster (St Cuthberga), Dorset 1254 Grandsire Cinques Sunday, 2 June […] |
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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 General Secretary. It is very pleasing to see all the Guild Officer posts now filled. Besides the routine business of accepting the minutes of the […] |
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Laurie’s 90th Birthday
Laurie Turner celebrated his 90th Birthday on June 1st. Laurie moved from Essex where he rang at a six-bell tower to Dorset in 1971 and looked for a new band to ring with. His father’s advice was to avoid a six-bell tower as he would find himself Tower Captain so he joined the band at […] |
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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. Peter attended practice at Westbury as usual on Tuesday and was due to ring this morning, 28 July, for Sunday service, so this has come as a great shock. […] |
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Keeping Tower Information up to date
A note for Tower Correspondents and Tower Captains. If information about your tower changes, please would you use this link to open the form where you can update information which is published on the website. OPEN THE FORM This is particularly important because, now we no longer need to return Form D, the Annual Report […] |
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Face to Face Newsletter Archive
Past copies of Face to Face, which ceased publication at the end of 2022, are now available in the website archive. Visit the Archive So far we have editions back to 2020 and will be uploading earlier ones as time permits. If you’re looking for a particular edition that hasn’t been uploaded yet just drop […] |
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