We are excited to organise visits as a team to other practices. During the summer we ventured along the A14 west of Huntingdon to ring at Great Catworth on their practice night. We arranged this with tower captain Geoff Burn and were warmly welcomed and had a lovely evening. We invited them to visit us and this was arranged for Thursday the 23rd of November.
Nine of their ringers were able to come along which meant that we had eighteen in the ringing room, but we managed to organise ourselves and take it in turns to sit down! Catworth ringers are at a similar stage to us, ringing Plain Hunt, Plain Bob, a little bit of Grandsire and call changes and we were able to help each other out.
During the evening we rang all these methods several times with mixed bands, and call changes were conducted by the two young ringers present.
At half time we handed out the sweets, and notices were given for each tower about forthcoming events. Sheila George kept us all busy throughout the evening and we finished the practice with a lovely ring down in peal.
Everyone enjoyed the practice and Geoff said afterwards, “I think it’s useful to visit other towers’ practice nights as I find it opens my eyes to other ways of approaching ringing!”. We all feel the benefits of these visits and will arrange some more in 2024.
Great Gransden Bell Ringers 