As mentioned in a previous post, we are arranging some additional practice sessions. The details of times, dates and locations have altered slightly. These are the new details:
8 Dec 2018 – Limehouse – Plain hunt
15 Dec 2018 – Limehouse – Bob doubles
12 Jan 2019 – Greenwich – Plaint hunt & ringing up & down
26 Jan 2019 – Greenwich – Bob doubles and ringing up & down
Please email Emma at docklands ringers dot co dot uk, if you think you would benefit from these sessions and wish to be invited.
100 years on from the signing of the Armistice which ended the first world war, to commemorate all those who were lost in this conflict including the 1400 bellringers who died, ringers across the docklands area rang at 12.30 as part of Ringing Remembers.
Here are some photos of the ringers who took part. Many thanks to the humble person who made the poppies that many of the ringers are wearing.
The docklands ringers are arranging some additional practice sessions at Limehouse on the 1st, 8th & 15th of Dec, 2.00pm-4.00pm. Louise is kindly planning on teaching at these, numbers and helpers permitting.
We are interested to hear from both those who would wish to benefit from these sessions, but also from those who are already confident in these skills and are available to help make the sessions a success. Please email the docklands ringers mail group.
We almost had an all ladies band! (Emma couldn’t come to Isle of Dogs). Back L to R: Piers, Buky, Anna, Justina, Lina, Front: Bo, Lily, Naoko. The peal board in the background is the first peal rung by an all ladies band. Success is the Reward for Perseverance!
The bands at Isle of Dogs and Greenwich work closely together, especially as we have a fair number of new ringers, and the two towers are only 15 minutes walk apart. As one service starts at 10am and the next at 11am, we can easily ring for both morning services. Today we were able to ring rounds and call changes on the front six at Greenwich and all eight at Isle of Dogs.
What is remarkable is that of the ten ringers today, four have only learnt in the past six months, and two more have been ringing for less than a year. Never the less they are all making excellent progress towards Levels 2 and 3 of Learning the Ropes.
Today was also one of the band’s 16th Birthday https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1206191
Isle of Dogs is the tower where the first all ladies band rang a peal, back in 1912. We look forward to further progress and to the day, in the not too distant future, when at least some of our new ringers also ring their first peal. ‘Success is the Reward for Perseverance’ as the motto on the peal board says!
Piers, Bo, Lina and Justina
With 15 ringers available, we had enough ringers, not only ring half muffled at Rotherhithe this morning, but also to split in two and ring at Bermondsey and Limehouse at the same time!
Over recent months we have grown the band so that we have enough ringers to able to do this more regularly. Piers, Bo, Lina and Justina all started learning to ring in August. They have learnt quickly, having benefitted from some intensive handling sessions with plenty of ‘rope time’ and use of our simulators to practice striking. They are all now ringing rounds and call changes sufficiently well to be able to ring together at Limehouse this morning.
This was also the first time that they had rung half muffled, enabling them to tick another box in their 50 Ringing Things book (two for those that helped fit/remove the muffles).
The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers announced this morning that working in Partnership with the Government, in a year’s time, on Nov 11th 2018 they are looking for:
1. As much bell ringing in as many towers as possible, with half-muffled ringing in the morning, and open bells in the afternoon and evening.
2. Ringing as part of the large-scale British project, ‘Battle’s Over – A Nation’s Tribute’. Pipers will be piping in the morning, bugles sounding and 1,000 beacons lit across the UK in the evening; with1,000 towers ringing at 7.05pm on the day.
3. Recruiting and training 1,400 new ringers in 2018, the same number as those who fell in the Great War, to take part in this ringing
Piers, Bo, Lina and Justina show that with intensive tuition it is quite feasible to train new bell ringers and have them ringing well enough to ring together on Sundays within a few months. Enquires from people wishing to learn in time for 2018 are already coming in as a result of today’s nationwide publicity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41957521