Automated emailing of new Calendar entries

Following a request made at the DRC AGM, I have changed the web site such that it automatically sends an email to members when somebody adds an entry to the Calendar.

The intention is to make sure that all members are notified when something is coming up. The email will contain sufficient information to stand in its own right, but also has a link to the Calendar on the website in case you want to know more. The email also contains an ‘unsubscribe’ option if you don’t want to receive future emails of this type.

I’m afraid the web-site isn’t clever enough to generate an email if a calendar entry is changed or deleted, so the organisers will need to inform this separately if they want it brought to everyones’ attention (a delete and new post will take care of a change, although it is slightly clumsy).

Hopefully, this will promote more use of the calendar function. Anybody who wants to know how to use it, please contact me or one of the regular users.

DRC Annual Challenge Striking Contest

If it’s the DRC AGM, then it must be the annual challenge striking competition between Stepney and Bermondsey bands. Keen to rebuff their 100% losing record, Andrew Clark selected two teams for the call changes and method bands and even had rehearsals.

Ian Mills kindly offered to sit outside St Marys, Rotherhithe on a really cold day to judge the action.

Team 1 was Stepney call changes, team 2 Bermondsey call changes, team 3 Stepney method, and team 4 Bermondsey method.

The Stepney Band confidently waiting for the signal to ring first in the Striking Competition. Left to Right Kevin Turner, Elizabeth LeMoine, Greg Rose, Joe, Chris Giddins, Ed Bucknall, Jonathan Slack

The greater experience of the Stepney teams prevailed once again in both events. Although Ian did provide me with his score sheets, common decency (and being on the losing side) inhibits them being published here. However, Ian did comment that the Bermondsey call change band ‘obviously enjoyed ringing as it went on a long time’.

So, once again, we have a nice picture of Ian Mills presenting the Cup (and Saucer) to Elizabeth.

Ian Mills presenting the challenge cup and saucer to Elizabeth LeMoine

 

Local Christmas Concert, History, Architectural Interest

Jennifer Woodward, a member of the Stepney Band, is also a member of the London Gallery Quire and invites us to their annual Christmas Concert of West Gallery Music at St George’s German Lutheran Church, 55 Alie Street E1 8EB on Wednesday 5 December at 7pm (doors open at 6.30pm). Tickets are £6 on the door. As the poster tells us this is an opportunity to see inside the oldest surviving German church in England – one of those Open House sites I’ve always meant to visit but so far haven’t incorporated into my jam-packed routes and I am intersted to learn more about the music (featuring in Thomas Hardy’s early novel Under the Greenwood Tree), so I’ll be there. See also the Historic Chapels Trust website for more information about the venue. http://www.hct.org.uk/chapels/london/st-georges-german-lutheran-church/17 Click on the poster below and then click on it again to see it at a more legible size. Hope to see many of you at the concert!