President’s Piece
September – a time of change. At the end of summer but before autumn has taken a hold, we witness the seasonal changes all around us as the leaves begin to change colour, the hedgerows are abundant with berries and the days are getting shorter. Yes, it’s now dark as we make our way home […] |
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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 £1,374.40. Organised by Dorchester Branch Ringing Master and Secretary, Paul and Jayne Cottingham, with help from their enthusiastic team of volunteers, the day featured ringing […] |
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Guild Striking Competitions 2024
The Guild will hold its six and eight bell striking competitions on Saturday, 14th September. There will be six-bell and Novice competitions which are both to be held at All Cannings in the Devizes Branch and the eight-bell will run at the same time at near-by Bishops Cannings. The Ringing Masters and Secretaries of each […] |
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July Quarter Peals
Forty two Quarter Peals were rung in the Guild during July 2024. (Information taken from Bellboard – entries marked Salisbury Diocesan Guild and Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers) Monday, 1 July 2024 Stalbridge (St Mary), Dorset 1260 Plain Bob Doubles Monday, 1 July 2024 Collingbourne Ducis (St Andrew), Wiltshire 1260 Plain Bob Doubles Tuesday, 2 July 2024 […] |
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Book of the Month
Teaching Tips by Pip Penney – Central Council of Church Bell Ringers Education Committee. The introduction to this book states “Teaching tips is designed for any ringer starting to teach for the first time”. This book is well laid out with a mixture of text, diagrams, tables, and explanatory photo montages to illustrate bell handling exercises. The sections […] |
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New World Record
Huge congratulations to these members of the Channel Islands Branch of the SDGR who achieved the longest length of singles ever rung with 10080 Stedman Singles in 4 hours and 37 minutes on 24th July 2024 at St Peter Port, Guernsey. bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view For those unfamiliar with the delights of Stedman Singles, it is rung on […] |
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Useful Advice About Noise Complaints
There was a very interesting article in the Telegraph’s “Ask a Lawyer” feature recently (31st July) which was a lawyer’s response to a letter which began… My wife and I and our toddler recently moved from London to a lovely village in Suffolk. It’s great, apart from the fact that we live next to the […] |
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Tower of the month: St Peter Port, Town Church
For September’s tower, we leave the mainland and travel nearly 200 miles south to Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands. Very recently all of the Church of England churches on the Channel Islands, and consequently the rings of bells within them, transferred to the Salisbury Diocese. The Guild has therefore had an injection […] |
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Peter Baker HLM RIP
1941 – 2024. Peter Baker was a much respected ringer who served his tower for almost sixty years as a ringer and forty as Tower Captain. He was one of the original Trustees of the SDGR Bell Restoration Fund (LEBRF) who were appointed in 1998, serving as Chair […] |
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Who’s who? Guild Treasurer
Who’s who in the Guild? And what do they do? Tim Phillips - Guild Treasurer & Membership Secretary. The first in an occasional series which intends to shine some light onto the inner workings of our Guild by explaining the various roles and responsibilities of the elected officers and introducing the member who currently holds the office. […] |
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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. St Mary the Virgin, Westwood, in the Devizes branch is the second lightest six-bell tower in the Salisbury Diocesan Guild, the tenor weighing 4.2.12. It […] |
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