SDGR Ringing Update - March 2024

Welcome to the latest ringing update for the Guild

Below you'll find links to items that have been posted on the Guild website since the last edition including a report on the recent Executive Committee meeting, Steeplekeeping tips, a featured Tower of the Month article and plenty more.

There's also a Book of the Month recommendation which I'd strongly encourage you to take advantage of - once our current stock is gone, it's gone.

You'll find links to your branch section down at the bottom of this email where you'll find even more stories of interest.

I do hope you are finding the new website and this regular update of value - do please let me have your items and photos for publication. The more content we can publish the more interesting it will make it.

Happy ringing!

Andy Waring
Acting Guild Publicity Officer
news@sdgr.org.uk

Latest from around the Guild...

Time to plan for Firsts Week

It’s time to start making plans for the Guild’s Firsts Week which takes place in April between Saturday 6th and the Sunday of the following weekend; the 14th. We know this is more than a week but it’s so that we can squeeze two weekends in to give as many people as possible a chance to participate. […]

Tower of the Month – Cranborne & Wimborne St Giles

For this Guild Newsletter, a double-feature for the Tower of the Month segment: the towers of Cranborne and Wimborne St Giles, both in the East Dorset Branch. The towers share a combined ministry and band, as well as being notable for being the shortest distance between two true-harmonic rings in the Diocese

January Quarter Peals

The following 39 Quarter Peals were rung in the Guild during January 2024. (Information taken from Bellboard – entries marked Salisbury Diocesan Guild and Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers) Wednesday, 3 January 2024 Merriott (All Saints), Somerset 1296 Cambridge Surprise Minor Friday, 5 January 2024 Manston (St Nicholas), Dorset 1260 Doubles (4m,8v) Friday, 5 January 2024 Compton Abbas […]

Belfry Upkeep – Stays and Sliders

The stay and slider form a mechanism which enables the bell to be ‘set’ in the up position by holding it just past the balance. The stay and slider are usually made out of Ash, although alternative designs are seen on some older rings. The stay also acts as a ‘safety valve’ and will break […]

Book of the Month

Doubles and minor for beginners – William Butler This book takes the learner through various doubles and minor methods, not only from the point of view of the blue line as originally set out in Jasper Snowden’s “Diagrams” book, but also using the concept of, the circle of work. This visual diagram is used to show the work that each bell […]

Young Ringers Update

Following a very well attended practice at Preston and Upwey at the end of January, the young ringers group met again on Saturday 24th February where fourteen young ringers enjoyed ringing at two 6-bell towers in the East Dorset branch – Stourpaine and Shroton. Thank you to Sue Bosworth and Malcolm Trowbridge for welcoming us. […]

Please Gift Aid your LEBRF donations

If you have donated to the LEBRF in the last four years may we ask you to complete a Gift Aid declaration if you haven’t already done so, using our new quick and easy online form which you will find here Online Gift Aid Form Donating through Gift Aid means the LEBRF can claim an […]

Teaching the Teachers of the Future

ART Training Module 1, Bell Handling – a review The damp, dark February morning immediately felt warmer and brighter as we were welcomed into the Bradpole Ringing Centre at Holy Trinity Church by Sue Carter, SDGR West Dorset Branch Training Officer who had arranged our full day of ART Training Module 1, Bell Handling. […]

Bellringing as a Cultural Asset?

I recently attended a very interesting and informative Central Council Zoom meeting on the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage in relation to bellringing. A consultation on the initial implementation stage of the Convention closes at 23:59 on the 29th February 2024. The link to the consultation document is below and I would encourage everyone to […]

Guild Executive Meeting Report

Saturday 17th February, by Zoom We had a full agenda for our most recent Guild Executive meeting with much to discuss and I’m pleased to be able to share with you a summary of our proceedings. It is planned for this to become a regular feature following all our meetings so that the whole membership […]

Peal ringing on handbells

There has been a long-established tradition of handbell ringing in the Salisbury Diocesan Guild. In 1887 the 10th peal for the Guild was a peal of Grandsire Triples rung in Salisbury by William Tydeman, Thomas Blackbourn, James Washbrook and Henry Adams. By 1895 a total of 37 handbell peals had been scored (out of a […]

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