Author: Steve Thomason

Branch Practice News – August

‘The Branch Practice for this month (August) was held at Milton Keynes Village and was well attended with 25 members representing 11 Towers.  Ringing ranged from plain doubles and  minor, Stedman Grandsire and a couple of courses of Carlisle Surprise Minor were successfully brought round.

 
Thanks to the local ringers and the incumbent for allowing us to ring, and to all who attended and made this a constructive and beneficial practice. A collection was taken up of £42 which was shared equally between MKV tower and the OD Bell Fund.
 
Next Branch Practice will be in October at Lavendon (6 Bells 10cwt) on Saturday 21st September from 5.00 – 6.30pm

London Mini Roadshow

  FOR ALL RINGERS
SUNDAY 8 TH SEPTEMBER 9.30AM TO 4.30PM

Goldsmiths College, London SE14 6NW

 

21 TALKS–by expert speakers including :

  • Youth Ringing (with a panel of young ringers)
  • Project Pickled Egg (Simon Linford)
  • ART and Teaching Ringing (Lesley Belcher)
  • Building a bell sound (Bill Hibbert)
  • Making Bells (Tom Westley),
  • Bell restoration (Peter Tottmanand Michael Royalton-Kisch)
  • Steve Coleman on “When Ringing Had To Stop”.

17 STANDS

  • See the unique Carter Ringing Machine, take a browse at the Central Council’s library on tour, print a model bell, or try your skills at simple rope making on the Avon Ropes stand.

4 TRAINING BELLS AND 3 MINI RINGS

  • Try out a Training Bell to see what it could do for your tower or try out one of our three mini rings.

Click here to Register

Click here to download poster

Steeple Aston – One Day Training Course

Saturday 26th October 2019 At Steeple Aston
9.15am to 8.00pm
A one-day training course providing tuition and practical experience ringing basic methods from Plain Hunt, Plain Bob and Grandsire to Plain Bob Major

£30 per person
For further details and an application form please email
steepleastoncourse@odg.org.uk
(includes evening meal)
The closing date for applications is Sunday 15th September

Click on the link below to download poster:

Steeple Aston 2019 Poster

Milton Keynes mayor’s bell ringing exploits rings up thousands for charity

Cllr Martin Petchey (Lab, Stantonbury) held the position of MK’s first citizen until last week and marked the end of his year in office by handing over a cheque for £7,455.90 to the Bus Shelter MK.

At the start of his term in office Cllr Petchey set himself the task of completing about 45 minutes of continuous ringing – called a quarter peal – at all 21 available set of church bells in the borough.

And he completed the task without dropping a clanger on his very last day in office, at Old Wolverton. He is pictured at his home tower, Woughton-on-the-Green, where he began the clang-athon.

Cllr Petchey said: “One of the highlights was to ring a new method celebrating the anniversary of the consecration of Christ the Cornerstone Church in Central Milton Keynes – this was at Lavendon, as Cornerstone does not have bells.”

Cllr Petchey, who bell rings in the little spare time he has after carrying out his councillor duties, added that only non-ringers call it campanology.

He said that anyone who wanted to donate to the cause could still do so by making a donation to The Bus Shelter MK via its website.

 

(Reproduced from MK Citizen with permission)