Author Archives: Phillip George

The first tied bell session of the year was held at Nutbells on the 10th of January. This year we held a simple quiz on Call Changes and Plain Hunt on 5 taken from the Learning the Ropes training scheme. Most questions were answered correctly and there was some useful discussion around some of theContinue reading “Coffee and Biscuits at First Tied Bell Practice and Handbells are Rung on Practice Night!”

Great Gransden ringers and friends held their Christmas party on Saturday 30th December at Nutbells. Everyone brought food and we enjoyed a starter, main and sweet course. Fifteen of us shared two rooms with instructions from tower captain, Sheila, to swop places after the main course. The handbells came out with several having a goContinue reading “Christmas Party 2023”

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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 usContinue reading “Catworth Ringers Visit Gransden”

Always looking for opportunities, a gap in the diary when key ringers were available allowed us to organise a Grandsire Doubles workshop on Saturday 11th November 2023. It had been on the cards for a while and we were pleased to be able to ‘tick this one off’. We ring Grandsire on practice nights butContinue reading “Grandsire Doubles Workshop”

Josh has been ringing for 10 months and making good progress, moving on to ringing Plain Hunt on the treble. He is ready to go on to ring the treble to Plain Bob Doubles and to ring the tenor behind but needs a very steady band to help with this, and a lighter tenor bell.Continue reading “Master Class for Josh”

We were lucky with the weather having avoided two days of heavy rain and wind. Saturday the 14th of October 2023 was cool but sunny as we set off on our forty minute drive to north Bedfordshire. We arrived at Bletsoe in good time and were met by the tower captain. The bells wre re-hungContinue reading “Autumn Outing to Bedfordshire and The Story of Bletsoe Tenor Bell”

We usually take for granted our safety in the tower. Although incidents are extremely rare it is important to know what we should do in case of an emergency. We periodically hold a refresher awarness session during one of our practices and this year it was scheduled for Thursday 21st September 2023. The Steeple KeeperContinue reading “Emergency Procedures”

Every quarter peal is special. They require a lot of mental and physical effort. They are usually successful but never guaranteed. On Friday 15th September we met with friends to ring St Clements Bob Minor. It was very warm in the ringing room even with the window open and the fan blowing. The ringing wasContinue reading “The Next Quarter Peal”

As president of the Huntingdon District Ringers, Phillip had been chatting with Geoff Burn in his capacity of District Bell Advisor. They had met at Waresley to carry out a bell inspection, and the converstaion turned to ringing at Catworth, where Geoff is tower captain. Always on the look out for new ringing experiences PhillipContinue reading “Let’s Take a Trip to Catworth”