We would like to encourage ringers new and old to take up the challenge to ring a quarter (or maybe more!) for the Guild Quarter Peal Festival.
Maybe you would like to have a shot at your first quarter or try out that method you’ve been learning.
A whole fortnight of Quarter Peal ringing will be taking place …
For more information or to get involved email Nicky Aubrey at peo@hdgb.org
We are very pleased to announce that we have a new trophy for the Guild Call Change Competition. At the request of the Striking Competition Committee the new trophy has been designed and made by Lynn Scales and we are very happy with the result.
Lynn made the very fitting suggestion that the trophy be named the Osbaldiston Shield in recognition of the many years of the service that Alec Osbaldiston gave as a member of the Thomas Cooper Striking Competition Committee. Alec joined the committee in the mid-seventies, becoming Secretary in 1985, and served in this role until 2018. The Striking Competitions held during Alec’s tenure were always meticulously organised and ran without (any noticeable) hitch.
Alec’s family have been approached and they are delighted and touched that the shield will be dedicated to his memory.
We would love there to be a good number of challengers for this new trophy, so please consider entering a band.
The Call Change competition will be held at Kington on Saturday 9th March. All district secretaries have details and details can also be found here.
Entries should be submitted by 2nd March.
Everyone is most welcome to come along to Kington on Saturday 9th March to enjoy listening to the ringing, to meet friends old and new, and to take part in the other activities in the church during the afternoon.
The 2024 Thomas Cooper Striking Competition is taking place as part of the Guild Competition Day on Saturday 9th March at Kington. We are hoping, after the cancellation of last year’s event, that the new date in the spring will prove more popular and we are trying to do something new with the event.
You can download the rules for the event which I hope will be self-explanatory. There are some changes to the requirements for the competition, following your feedback. Firstly, the test piece for the method ringing section will now be 120 changes of any doubles method. For the call change section, the ‘two year rule’ has been relaxed to three years.
As in 2019, the last time the competition was held, there will be a method ringing and a call change section to the competition. This year, we are going to add a third element to the event, which will be a Novice Rounds Challenge. This will be open to individual towers or cluster bands to enter, and constructive feedback will be given positively and in an encouraging manner! Please see the rules for further information.
The aim of the Novice Rounds Challenge is to encourage new ringers to develop their engagement with the Guild and to aspire to good striking. It is hoped that the Challenge will encourage networking and sharing good practice amongst developing bands, learners and teachers of ringing.
Throughout the afternoon, tea, coffee and cake/biscuits will be available in the church and we are arranging various stalls and activities to be available while ringing takes place. There are toilet facilities in the church. Access to the tower is via an external stone staircase and the bells are an easy-going, clear ring of six with little odd-struckness.
I look forward to receiving entries by Saturday 2nd March 2024 please.
If you have any questions, please do get in touch.
Best wishes,
Tim Hollinghurst (email timhollinghurst@hotmail.com)
On behalf of the Committee (Fran Watkins, Nicky Aubrey and Tim Hollinghurst)
Update from Adrian Moreton on 3rd February …
Hi!
We’ve just finished processing the student applications for this year’s course, and with their acceptances we’ve included a clothing order form. We have a special 60th logo – similar to the 50th for those who remember it!
If you want to order anything, the price list and form can be downloaded here: Ringing Course clothing order form 24
Looking forward to seeing you in April.
Best wishes,
Adrian
A three day course: Thursday 4th – Sunday 7th April, 2024
Royal National College, Venns Lane, Hereford
For more information, a full programme and application form visit
www.herefordringingcourse.org.uk
Or contact the course secretary enclosing a self addressed stamped envelope:
Alison Moreton
1 Silcoates Drive
Wrenthorpe
Wakefield
WF2 0UR
Closing date for applications is 31st January, 2024
Prices: Resident: with all meals: £505
Basic (non-resident, no meals) : £150 (£100 for under 18’s) Individual
meals may be ordered as required.
Guild towers rang out across the Hereford area during the Coronation celebrations.
Belboard created an event for the Coronation where all performances can be linked – See here for all Hereford Diocesan Guild performances.
Congratulations to all ringers!
God save the King!
The Guild AGM will be held on Saturday 13th May 2023 in Leominster.
The Ringing Festival takes two alternate routes on the way to Leominster; join us to ring at the towers on Route A or Route B below, finally meeting up at Eye and then Leominster Priory church.
Route A
10:00-10:30 Wigmore
10:45-11:45 Aymestrey
12:00-12:30 Monkland
Route B
10:30 – 11:30 Stoke Prior
11:50-12:20 Leysters
12:30-13:00 Middleton
13:00 – 13:45 Eye
Leominster Priory
14:00 – 15:30
Guild Office
15:30
AGM 16:45 in the Forbury Chapel
followed by Ringers Tea.
Note: toilet facilities are very limited (Stoke & Leominster only).
Download the HDGB AGM Agenda 2023
A three day course: Thursday 13th – Sunday 16th April, 2023
Royal National College, Venns Lane, Hereford
Prices: Resident: £265 plus meals —meal prices unavailable until February
Basic (non-resident, no meals) : £100 Individual meals may be ordered as required.
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For more information, a full programme and application form visit www.herefordringingcourse.org.uk
Or contact the course secretary enclosing a self addressed stamped envelope:
Alison Moreton
1 Silcoates Drive
Wrenthorpe
Wakefield
WF2 0UR
Closing date for applications is 31st January, 2023
Please join the Hereford Course Facebook group if you would like to keep in touch with our activities.
HM Queen Elizabeth II
2 June 1953 – 8 September 2022
Listen to the bells of Leominster Priory ringing fully muffled in memoriam …
Broseley has an enthusiastic team of 15 ringers, 5 of whom started to learn since the Covid lockdowns.
However, we have some issues with our bells. The ropes are pulled at strange angles from the bells to the ringers, the pulleys are worn, the sliders have been repaired with metal patches and bells 3 to 8 have the remnants of the original crown staples which could cause the bells to crack in the future. The bells were originally a peal of 6 hung in a wooden frame, but 2 extra bells were added at a later date in a metal frame. The flexing of the bell frame causes issues with pinching of the bell fittings.These problems combine to make the bells quite difficult to ring.
We’re therefore raising money to send the bells away for preventative maintenance and retuning, and to have them reinstalled in a new 10 bell frame. If we can raise enough money we’ll be able to install an additional 2 bells.
We’ve currently raised £17,000 and are busy fundraising to obtain the rest of the money needed to start the project.
For more information, please download our PDF Broseley Bells Project Leaflet.
If anyone would like to donate, we have a JustGiving page: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/broseley-bells
Thank You!
We are sorry to report the recent death of Gerald Mason who was a long time ringer at both Madley and Eaton Bishop towers. Our condolences to his family and friends.
The funeral will be held at Eaton Bishop on Monday 25th October at 2pm.
