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E B S B N E W S www.ebsb.org.uk July 2008 6 BELL COMPETITION AT CHENIES The High Wycombe Band John Simmons receiving the plate from John Davidge

EBSB NEWS

www.ebsb.org.uk July 2008

6 BELL COMPETITION AT
CHENIES

The High Wycombe Band John Simmons receiving the plate from John Davidge

This year the 6-Bell Striking Competition was held in the beautiful setting of Chenies with the church adjacent
to the Manor House and its grounds. There was a wedding reception taking place in the grounds of the Manor
House – I hope they appreciated all the ringing! Six bands took part in the competition which was judged by
Roy Woodruff of Aston Clinton with High Wycombe once again very worthy winners. Highlights of a very
enjoyable afternoon and evening were the almost faultless ringing by High Wycombe (only 15 faults!), the
delicious cream tea to which we were treated by the Chenies ringers and a very pleasant branch practice
afterwards. Our thanks to Sandy and Andy Homewood and to Anne Sippitt for their hospitality. (More Photos p2)

DIARY DATES

26 July Beaconsfield (8) Surprise Practice 7 – 9pm
9 August Bray (8)* Special Method: Lincolnshire S.M. 7 – 9pm
Branch Practice

16 August NOVICES’ OUTING – PLEASE SEE BACK PAGE FOR MORE DETAILS

23 August Cookham (10)* Surprise Practice (Major & Royal) 7 – 9pm
7 – 9pm
13 September Slough (10) Branch Practice 7 – 9pm

27 September West Wycombe (8) Surprise Practice from 5pm
Special Method: Bristol S.M.
7 – 9pm
11 October Penn (6) Lorna Newton Final & Half Yearly Meeting 7 – 9pm
followed by Branch Practice until 9pm

25 October Hambleden (8) Branch Practice

8 November Wraysbury (8)* Branch Practice

* Change to venue published in the diary card.

6-Bell Competition Continued…..

Amersham started off the day’s ringing with a very nice touch of Plain Bob Doubles and were placed 2nd with
46 faults, Beaconsfield were 3rd with 51 faults.

Chalfont St Giles 4th (75 faults) Chesham 5th (85 faults)

Wooburn rang last but did not complete the required number of changes and were unmarked.
Thank you to all these bands for taking part.
John Davidge thanked Roy Woodruff, pictured with his wife Judy, for judging our competition and for his
thoughtful and helpful comments on the ringing.

USED ROPES AVAILABLE

Cookham has ten used and two new ropes with red, green and white salleys that they no longer
require. If anyone is interested in acquiring these please contact Mandy Salter on 01628 530241

NEW BRANCH RINGING MASTER FOR EBSB

At our AGM held this year at Cookham on 26th April
Katharine Firman was elected as our new Ringing
Master, David McKenzie standing down from this role
after three years in office. All other officers were re-
elected unopposed

Katharine is pictured here with Deputy Ringing Master
Fred Reynolds and has written the following message to
accompany it.

‘My potted ringing history is that I learnt at Winchester
when about 11, spent short periods in Bristol and London as a student, and came to this area in 1976.
Since then I have been a member of the Bray band.

In recent Branch practices we have rung all sorts of things from rounds to Surprise Major and Royal.
It has been good to see a number of people trying something new, whether it be gaining experience
with ‘strange’ bells, ringing a different method or extending to higher numbers. I should love to think
that Branch ringing events can offer something worthwhile for everyone, and I should be pleased to
hear any suggestions you might have for helping to achieve this.

Thank you very much for electing me to be your Branch Ringing Master. I have thoroughly enjoyed
the practices that I have run so far and I very much hope to ring with more of you in the year ahead.’

Katharine Firman

Tewkesbury Shield May 2008

One of the consequences of the branch’s success in winning the Guild ten-bell competition is that we get a
chance to represent the Guild in the Tewkesbury Shield Contest.

Since not all the branch band from November was available for the Tewkesbury contest on 3rd May, the band
was extended to include a couple of ODG members from outside of the branch with recent experience of
contest ringing at Tewkesbury. However there were still eight EBSB Branch members in the band with a full
course of Cambridge S. Royal as the test piece. We were drawn to ring 4th out of the 8 teams which gave us
time for a teetotal lunch beforehand. It is one of those awe-inspiring towers in which to ring, yet during the
test-piece I found myself getting great pleasure from the sound of our ringing, albeit towards the end the
standard of our striking dropped slightly. Afterwards we were able to relax in our separate ways: in the pub,
socialising, exploring the Tewkesbury Food and Drink Fair, viewing the town’s heritage or for George
Whiteside getting his motorbike repaired. The results were:

1st - Gloucester and Bristol (27.5 faults)
2nd - Oxford Diocesan Guild (28.5 faults)
3rd - Derby DA. (34.5 faults)
4th - The Oxford Society (38.5 faults)
5th - University of London Society (46.5 faults)
6th - Worcestershire and Districts Assn. (50.25 faults)
7th - Coventry Cathedral Society (87 faults)
8th - Hereford Diocesan Guild (121 faults).

Our feeling about our ringing was borne out by the judges, who said of it that the middle of our course was the
best ringing of the day. Our thanks go to John Davidge for organising the band and to the towers of Cookham,
St Lawrence Reading and Cirencester for letting us use their bells for practising.

Ken Darvill

TOWER NEWS

BRAY CLEWER

St. Michael’s, Bray, currently has an Emergency Action to commence work on the restoration of our
Appeal for £300,000 for urgent repairs. As a means bells at St Andrew’s is progressing steadily. Apart
of making a contribution, Bray ringers are offering to from the (inevitable!) delay in obtaining the faculty, it
ring quarter-peals to celebrate baptisms, birthdays, has at times proved difficult for so many different
anniversaries, etc. in return for a donation to the parties to co-ordinate. However, I met with the
Emergency Appeal. ‘Sponsors’ and recipients of the architect and structural engineer last week and we
honour are invited to visit the tower, and receive a hope to begin building work very shortly prior to the
certificate of the quarter-peal. So far we have rung removal of the bells. Whitechapel have advised that
one such quarter and a large party visited the tower they are able to start dismantling the bells week
beforehand; the sponsor also gave a larger donation commencing 15th July, providing the screen has been
to the Appeal than we requested. We have two removed and the hatch widened before then.
more quarters booked, and a lot of interest has been
shown in the idea. All being well, therefore, things should start moving
(literally!) next month. Jane Cockman and I have been
As our Gold Tower Maintenance Award has expired, busy making several applications for grants to help
efforts are being made to make a few improvements with the cost, and we intend to launch our other fund-
and clean up the belfry before we request an raising activities with an article in the local paper and
inspection with a view to obtaining a further door-to-door circulars as soon as we have a fixed
Certificate. date with Whitechapel.

Wenda Fowles And 'may the bells ring out for Christmas'!

DORNEY Linda Jones
Tower Captain

On Sunday 8 June Dorney held their annual barbecue HIGH WYCOMBE
at Peter and Elizabeth Legge’s garden in Eton Wick.
The delicious food and drink were complemented by Following the discovery of structural problems in the
absolutely perfect weather which together with the tower at the beginning of the year, we are still
idyllic setting made for a really lovely day. restricted to ringing on the front 8 bells but our
thoughts are now able to turn to the future.

Following visits by the Diocesan Bells Advisor, a
structural engineer and Whitechapel Bell Foundry, we
held a meeting of the ringers on 23rd June to discuss
our options. At a minimum, we are going to have to
have a concrete ring beam put in place to strengthen
the tower and also a new frame for the bell
installation. There are various ways we could then go
forward with the bells, either using the old bells or
going for a whole new ring.

On 2 June we rang a quarter peal of 1260 Plain Bob After discussion, we decided that we would like to ‘go
Doubles and Grandsire Doubles to celebrate the the whole hog’ and try to raise the funds needed for a
Golden Wedding Anniversary of Brian and Irene whole new installation with a tenor rather lighter than
Turnbull. Following the successful quarter Brian and the current one at just over 26cwt. This is now being
Irene had laid on very welcome refreshments in the put to the PCC for their approval.
vestry to toast their 50 years together in style.
Once this has been obtained, the hard work starts in
earnest as we are looking to raise up to a quarter of a
million pounds for the work. While we are all
enthusiastic about the ultimate benefits, we are also
naturally a little daunted by the scale of the job and
the funding required. If we go ahead, the project
could take up to 2 or 3 years to complete.

However, for the time being at least, we are managing
to hone our 8 bell skills and are continuing to try to
score a quarter peal of Surprise Major on Sunday
evenings with methods beginning with each letter of
the alphabet.

l- r :Claire Fisher, Janet Gillard, Mandy Salter, Brian & More next time, we hope!
Irene, Leslie Hart, Marcia Dieppe, Roger Webb
Sheila Bruce

CHENIES

Here are some pictures showing the restoration of
Chenies Tower which was completed in the Autumn
of 2007. All is now working and we have returned to
ringing for Sunday Services, Weddings, Practices (we
alternate tower practice every other Wednesday with
Sarratt) and for visiting ringers.

We have two new 'trainee' ringers - Emma Walker
and Tom Homewood as a part of their Bronze Duke of
Edinburgh Award qualification.

Andy Homewood

OBITUARIES

Bernard Collins
1936 – 2008

Bernard was born in 1936 in Aylesbury and lived all his single life
in Stoke Mandeville. He went to the local school and then
attended Aylesbury Technical College at the age of thirteen.

After leaving school he served an apprenticeship as a carpenter
and joiner as well as night classes for a City and Guild certificate
in the building trade. He continued to study and his final
examination was to become a Fellow of the Royal Institute of
Building.

He took up bellringing and would cycle to all the churches in the area – attending the various
practice nights. Eventually he became the Ringing Master for what later was called “The Chiltern
Branch” of the Oxford Diocesan Guild of Bellringers. He became friendly with George Swift – a well
known ringer from Chalfont St Peter and Harry Baldwin a ringer from Little Missenden where
Bernard would attend church and ring for the services. Once he learned to drive a car – these three
would ring further afield and they told Bernard of a very good peal of eight bells in a place called
Denham. Monday night practices took on a new meaning when these three attempted to teach
‘method’ ringing to a band of people whose tower had only rung ‘call changes’ for many many years.
Denham ringers joined Little Missenden on Bellringers Outings and subsequently organized an
outing every year as well. These were happy days when members of the congregation would help to
fill the coach and enjoy visiting different churches – stopping for about an hour in each one and
enjoying a pre-booked lunch. One outing was a weekend in Yarmouth and even the Isle of Wight
where the coach got stuck trying to get up the narrow streets in Godshill!

By this time, Bernard and Ann were an ‘item’ and their courting days were spent touring the North
Bucks countryside – most of which Ann had never visited before and ringing at the various churches.
They were married on a glorious day in June 1962 when the churchyard was full of roses and they
were the last couple to be married by the Rev. John Simpson before he retired to Tingewick. By this
time, her grandfather’s farm and the famous ‘murder’ cottage had been sold, but Ann and her brother
Derek were each left a plot of ground. Bernard’s lifetime ambition was about to be fulfilled in the
building of his own house which he did – literally brick by brick. The only work he subcontracted out
was the plastering and electrical work.

Bernard went to work for Try Construction in Uxbridge as a Clerk of Works. Their daughter Teresa
Mary was born in March 1965 delighting both Ann and Bernard and their family. The magnolia tree
on the front lawn of Mandeville was given to her by the church choir and is a constant joy. Sadly her
congenital heart disease took its toll and she died in August 1966.

Paul and Kathryn were specially chosen by Ann and Bernard in 1966 and 1968 and together with the
two grandchildren Hannah and Rachael they have been a wonderful source of comfort and joy.

Bernard took on the role of Tower Captain here in Denham – and has lost count of the number of
people he has taught to ring over the years.

Bernard worked his way up to Contracts Director with Try Construction but when the recession
struck in 1992 he, along with others, was made redundant. Not wishing to put his feet up he joined
forces with Kathryn in running a restaurant in Gloucester before an opportunity came up with the
National Trust at Hughenden. Always having a love of old buildings he took up this challenge with
gusto and became the Area Manager for the Thames and Chiltern Branch. However the Trust’s
ruling of compulsory retirement for all at the age of 65 was sad for Bernard, but not to be resting for
long – he took up the challenge of Denham Village Memorial Hall – applying for lottery and other
grants. He became a trustee along with Frank Cakebread and Barbara Greenfield and in later years
has served as Chairman. He was constantly looking at ways to raise money in order to keep the
Hall as a fitting memorial to those who had died in the First World War.

Also involved and interested in St Mary’s he has been advising on all aspects concerning the fabric
of the church. He did this with great joy and was proud to be asked for his advice and guidance.
Bernard was a committed Christian in every way.

Bernard died suddenly on Friday 7th March whilst in the gymnasium at Denham. Over 250 friends,
colleagues and ringers overflowed the memorial service at St Mary’s Church and afterwards at the
Memorial Hall. Ann has received to date 220 cards and letters for which she thanks everyone – and
will treasure always,

The Denham Ringers

Elizabeth Nalder-Williams
1923 - 2008

Elizabeth was born in January 1923, the daughter of a Cambridge Don. She followed a career as a
probation officer and pursued her many interests – sailing, reading, gardening, woodwork and music
to name but a few. She was a member of the local historical society and National Trust.

When practice nights changed at Holy Trinity Church Penn, Elizabeth realised another ambition, to
ring bells and she began her lessons when in her 70’s. Although never advancing far in her ringing
ability she was a very loyal member of Penn bellringers and would never miss a Sunday morning or
practice night. Despite failing eyesight she still insisted ringing at least once each time and we
organised transport for her when she was no longer allowed to drive.

Elizabeth or Liz as we all knew her had a wide knowledge and was a popular member of quiz teams.
She even volunteered to be on Eggheads had there been a ringers team. With her usual
determination not to give in to her disability she recently took up bowling for the visually impaired.

She was a member of the church choir for over 20 years and an accomplished musician playing the
flute, viola and trumpet and she took her place in several local orchestras.

Her funeral at Penn was attended by a large number of her friends and acquaintances, and the bells
were rung half muffled before the service by her friends from Penn, Beaconsfield and Cookham
towers.

We miss Liz at Penn – her generous nature, bringing apples and damsons from her garden each
autumn, sharing her chocolates, providing plants from her garden and showing determination to
cope with her failing sight by using her large magnifying glass, large torch and a white stick.

Alison Bayley
Holy Trinity Penn.

WELCOME TO OUR NEW BURNHAM HAMBLEDEN
Jessica Mortimore Suzannah Bingham
MEMBERS
CHENIES LANGLEY
A warm welcome is extended to our new members Andy Homewood Rex Ankers
elected at the AGM at Cookham on 26th April. Elaine Ankers

COOKHAM PENN
Shirley Gostling Peter Stapleton
Jean Osborne
STOKE POGES
Pictured are Suzannah Bingham, Maryanne Roache DENHAM Alan Shuttleworth
(elected on 23 February), Jean Osborne, Shirley Gostling Andrew Simpson
and Carole Wadlow who were present at the AGM. Carole Wadlow WOOBURN
Robert Young Emma Couves
Louise Houghton

FUND RAISING COMMITTEE

Roadshow - this is looming large, and we are currently working hard on new products in readiness for the
Roadshow .in September.

Three of the Committee, plus one spouse, are attending both days of the Roadshow, and one member will be
attending for one day. This means rather a long time standing behind our stall and we very much need some
extra hands. If you are going to the Roadshow and could spare perhaps an hour (or less) to relieve one or
more of us we would be very grateful: please contact Pat Newton or Derek and Wenda Fowles if you are able
to help.

Guild Centenary Items – we have been given (unused) four pottery mugs and one Caithness glass bell which
were sold to commemorate the Guild Centenary in 1981. These are to be sold in aid of the Bell Fund – if you
are interested, we would appreciate a sensible offer!

Printer Cartridges - the collection of cartridges continues to be lucrative - don't bin your empty cartridges -
give them to one of the Committee members. Cartridges should ideally be in their packaging: please note that
we cannot accept Epson cartridges.

Website - don't forget you can view our stock items on our website: www.bellfund.org.uk

100 CLUB FEBRUARY 2008 APRIL 2008
£10 119 Brian Turnbull
Here are all those who have won prizes £5 87 Winkfield Tower Dorney £10 123 Mandy Salter Cookham
recent months: £5 107 Penn Tower
£2 50 Burnham Tower Wooburn £5 94 Derek Fowles Bray
£2 130 Turville Tower Winkfield
£2 129 John Couves £5 137 Claire Wheeler Marlow
£2 86 Barbara Eastburn
£2 8 Boyne Hill Tower

£2 76 Annie Davies High Wycombe

£2 91 Jill Glennister Winkfield

JANUARY 2008 £2 7 John Payne Boyne Hill

£10 75 Sheila Bruce High Wycombe

£5 73 Trudy Greenham Hitcham MARCH 2008 MAY 2008

£5 20 Roger Hazell Hughenden £10 55 Ann Agg Beaconsfield £10 117 Peter Legge Dorney

£2 46 Paulann Walker Burnham £5 69 Les Hart Hitcham £5 9 Ann Collins Denham

£2 42 Di Johnson Clewer £5 155 Myles HawkinsChalfont St. Giles £5 109 Alan Ainsworth Amersham

£2 93 Graham Firman Bray £2 8 Boyne Hill Tower £2 160 Robert Harvey Chalfont St Giles

£2 96 Wenda Fowles Bray £2 131 Marlow Tower £2 78 Robert Newton High Wycombe

£2 44 Linda Mandin Clewer £2 40 Sarah Roddy Clewer

£2 34 Tony Dell Clewer £2 150 Sara Thomas Chalfont St. Peter

A LOST TOWER:

ALL SAINT’S, BRAYWOOD, BERKS

Many older members will remember ringing on this pleasant five. What they will probably remember most is
the difficulty – not so much of finding the church, but of getting to it! It was a situation not unlike the Reading
Ring Road today – you can see where you want to get to as you drive past, but there is no indication of how
you do so. The community of Braywood was on Forest Green Road (B3024) between Oakley Green and
Forest Green and the most tangible evidence of it was the pub “The Braywood Arms”. You could see the
church across a field, its flint tower visible against the wood that gave the place its name. By the time you saw
it from the Windsor direction you had passed the overgrown drive that had led to the estate house of the Van
de Weyer family, who had built the church in 1867. In fact you had to go round three sides of the field, up
Fifield Lane, then along Drift Road to where a track led into Braywood itself. Latterly, through the wood was
the only access to the church. It was difficult enough to reach on a fine day, but I remember Howard Oglesby
telling me that he tried taking the Raving Ringers there one foggy November and at one point they found
themselves on Windsor Race-Course.

The tenor bell (9-3-80 was cast by Mears in 1866 and carried the (rather odd?) inscription: “The night is far
spent, the day is at hand”. It was hung in the oak frame, which allowed for more bells, in 1867, just prior to
the dedication of the church. The four other bells (also by Mears) were given by Sylvain and Elizabeth Van de
Weyer in 1870 to mark the birth of their first grandson, and on condition that the bells be rung for half an hour
each February 12th at 10.30am in remembrance of their wedding anniversary. These details were recorded on a
brass plate in the ringing chamber.

In the early days the ringers probably came from the Van de Weyer estate and ODG membership is not
recorded until 1915. Ringers included the Mitchell and Simmons families of Oakley Green who were to
remain associated with the tower until the late 1950s. Mr W Simmons of “The Prince of Wales” Oakley Green
was Tower Foreman in 1921; Mr G Mitchell (Tower Foreman from the 1930s) was the last and only member
listed in 1956/7. Most of the ringers over the years came from Oakley Green or Fifield. There was a curious
“blip” in 1924 when the ringers listed were not the familiar Mitchells and Simmonses, but five different names
with Mr W New given as the contact in Oakley Green. The old familiar names were back in 1925-6 but
“starred” for non-payment of dues. Thereafter no members were listed until 1931. Members were listed in
1936-7 but thereafter not until 1954, which was a sort of revival year with 6 members, including two Mitchells.
(My grateful thanks to Doug Beaumont, ODG Librarian, for digging out these details.)

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY REMINISCENCES OF THE BRAYWOOD RINGERS IN THE 1915-1957
PERIOD?

My own recollections don’t start until about 1958-9 when attempts were made with the help of ringers from
Winkfield I think, to honour the anniversary ringing and to ring for the annual harvest festival.

The church was little used from the late 1950s and was given up in 1961. The bells went to Beer in Devon and
when Rosalind Hicks and I visited the site in 1962, we found the church had been demolished. (It was still
shown on the 6” map in 1980!)

Knowing the bells were to go, I wanted to ring a last “quarter” there (Bill Butler conducted the last peal) but it
was difficult to get permission. In the end I asked Bill Birmingham, who fixed it via the Rural Dean and the
Diocesan Office.

We arrived on a pleasant Spring evening to fine everything in quite good condition, apart from a broken stay
on the treble. I came with Bill in his van and Russ Gotham was following us in his Austin 7. We found Jim
Muller, Anna Smith (later Mrs Lawrence) and Peter Lawrence waiting for us and rang a nice quarter on these
pleasant bells, Jim conducting. I had to remember not to set the treble when “stand” was called! One thing
was that we’d discovered a wasps’ nest very much alive (despite it being March) in the treble pit of the bell-
chamber floor. As the treble swung over the nest, the occasional wasp was “wafted” through the rope hole to
join me below. Seeing me duck, Pete Lawrence told me to ignore them, and it seemed only poetic justice
when he was the one who got stung!

David G Rowlands

Postscript to article on Beaconsfield ringers in last issue: One thing I forgot to say about Bill Fussell – he
designed the cover ‘Masthead’ of “The Ringing World”. DGR

More Tales from the (Dorney) Riverbank….

Operation Bell Tower Clean Up

My how time flies.

It was the evening of March 17th, the Monday in Holy Week, when the secret seven received a text message
from Janet Gillard which said “don’t rush, cleaning will only be starting at 20.00 hours”. I guess we all felt the
same, “Doh, it’s tower cleaning time again”, and with that thought in mind, there we all were assembling
outside the Church, ready to do our duty.

How the jobs get allocated is fascinating. Whilst there is no one in charge, so to speak, everything that needs
to be done, seems to get done. In addition, there is no squabbling, or tantrums, and it genuinely feels as if we
are all happy in what we seem to end up doing. Could it be that we have been there for so many years that we
just automatically fit in.

There was Janet climbing the steps armed with buckets, cloths and anything else that was needed, followed by
Marcia in her very fetching combat trousers. There were pockets here and there, and what was in them could
only be imagined. Wow, she meant business! Right behind her was Brian, who proceeded to change into
something that you would not wish to meet on a dark night. He is pictured below, and I think you would agree
with the previous statement. Then came Peter, carrying the very important piece of equipment, the Hoover. In
his usual inimitable style he proceeded to tell us about how many steps there were. They do, apparently, get
more each year. Then came Mandy, her golden pony tail flowing behind her, and I firmly believe we all thought
she was going to use it to brush away the cobwebs. No, this was not the case however, as she proceeded to
take down from the walls the pictures, and polished them all really well. Whether she was trying to erase
Roger’s picture was open to conjecture. Claire came next, and there she was busily polishing the windows
trying to make them as shiny as a mirror. Mirror, mirror on the wall, Claire’s the fairest of them all, murmured
the wind blowing through the rafters. Last but not least there was Roger. Unfortunately, cleaning is not his
style, but so as not to look out of place, he proceeded to sweep the stairs from top to bottom. After a while he
was shouting to Peter, “you are right, there are more stairs than last year”. You will notice no mention of Leslie.
As there was no ringing he decided to take himself off to Devon for a well-earned holiday. Did I hear someone
say his middle name really is Shearing’s.

Well, there we all were. Janet, Marcia, Mandy and Claire all concentrating on the
ringing chamber, Roger on the stairs, with Peter and Brian up amongst the bells.
We all got our heads down, until about 9.10, when everything was more or less
finished. We started to put everything back together again ready to go off home, or
to the pub for a quick drink. Then we noticed something missing. It was Brian. He
was still up in the bells, so we had to ensure we got him down pretty quick. That
was when we noticed what he looked like, pretty fearsome.

After a quick look round, I think we all came to the conclusion that a good job had
been done by all, and the chamber was looking very smart. A big thank you to us
all. If next year goes as fast as the last one, we will soon be back again, with the
prospect of more stairs being added on by Peter.

Roger Webb

Novices Outing – August 16th

As an experiment we are arranging an outing, on Saturday August 16th, particularly for those who have rung
very little outside their own tower, with the aim of helping them to improve their confidence in handling and
ringing different bells from their own. The ringing will be simple, probably mainly Rounds & Call Changes,
Grandsire & Plain Bob as the emphasis will be on getting the confidence to ring different bells and we aim to
have a number of experienced ringers to support the ringing and advise on handling and bell control.
At the time of writing the towers are not all finally confirmed, but the route is between Shiplake & Henley, with
six towers, all with six or eight bells and mainly fairly light to make handling easy. Ringing will be finished by
6pm.
So, if you can ring a bell unaided in your own tower and would like to have a day out to get some extra
experience, let Mandy ([email protected] 01628 530241) know and she will send you the detailed
itinerary. Look forward to seeing you on the day.

John Davidge


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