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Chale Pealed by Visitors from Bishopstoke

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St Andrew’s Church, Chale, were also busy this weekend and on Sunday hosted a visiting band of Sunday service ringers from Bishopstoke.
A peal was completed and is recorded on Bellboard as follows:
Sunday, 15 April 2018 in 2h42 (8–1–12 in B)
5040 Plain Bob Minor
Composed by 7 different extents
1 Roy LeMarechal (C)
2 Rebecca Webb
3 John C Hallett
4 Alexander J Dicks
5 John A Dodd
6 Graham J Wright
Rung by members of the Bishopstoke Sunday service band. Circled tower to peals – 1.
Congratulations to all involved.
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FUNERAL OF IAN ATHERTON

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Ian passed away 9th November.

For all of Ian’s friends – you would be very welcome to attend the Cremation Service; it’s on Tuesday 28th November – 10 a.m. – at Poole Crematorium, Gravel Hill, Broadstone, Bournemouth, Poole BH17 9BQ

Family flowers only, please – donations to the local hospice LEWIS MANNING. Ian volunteered as a driver for many years and then later on worked in its local charity shop.

Any messages of condolence including cards for the family can be sent to Viv Nobbs through the usual channels, please.

Ian was a non-ringer BUT he was very supportive of ringing and loved the heritage of ringing. He was also keen on canals, traction engines and steam railways, something a lot of ringers seem to be interested in also.

Even though he lived in Poole, his main two ways of giving to the Isle of Wight’s ringing world was by helping with the fund raising and getting his hands dirty in local bell restoration projects (he had been a hands on volunteer at the major restoration work at Arreton and also at Ryde).

He was a member of The Society for the Preservation of Isle of Wight Church Bells for many years and, until ill-health struck, a regular on the gates at the Chale Show – hence the venue of St Andrew’s Church at Chale for a quarter peal on Saturday which is to be rung ‘open’ in his memory. He was proud to have been born a “Londoner” – so London Surprise Minor seems a fitting method.

As a side note I am told Ian was a bit keen on the cooking side with his adventurous lumpy custard and very lumpy gravy being legendary!

RIP Ian, the fun will be sorely missed by all who knew you.

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Chale Take the Shield for first time

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The Isle of Wight District held the annual competition for the Lester Bailey Memorial Shield for Call Changes at St Andrew’s Church, Chale, yesterday (Saturday).
This competition is held annually in June in memory of Godshill ringer Lester Bailey and is awarded to teams for 6-bell call changing on the Island.
Six teams entered the competition for a very enjoyable afternoon’s ringing.
Island Master Jenny Brudenell decided to judge the competition herself for the first time as there had been problems with finding a judge to do the honours.
Results were as follows: 1st Chale, 31 faults; 2nd Brighstone, 34.5 faults; 3rd Ryde, 57.5 faults; 4th Swanlin (a combined Swanmore and Shanklin team), 61 faults; 5th Newchurch, 64 faults; 6th Brading, 76 faults.
Chale band consisted of Paul Miller (caller), Sue Day, John Stock, Catherine Miller, Clarissia Turton and Mary Tester, in rope order.
The competition rules state that ringing of call changes should be of ‘a minimum of 5 minutes’, but Paul’s enthusiasm for the superb ringing got the better of him and we ended up doing 10!
Our thanks to Chale for organising the teas and hosting the afternoon and to Jenny on the superb job of judging – job for life now I feel!
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6-Bell Report for Isle of Wight Entry in Competition

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The bulk of this is taken from a post of Greg Jordan on the W&P website.
The Island team consisted of 1, Paul Miller (Conductor); 2, Rodney Downer; 3, Caroline May; 4, David Langford; 5, John Stock; 6, Catherine Miller. The team rang 120 changes of Grandsire doubles.
We all enjoyed our day so much on North Island so thank you guys for organising the day and making it a lovely experience.
Here is a brief report from me, from the Inter-District striking competition yesterday. Everything went smoothly and thank you to everyone for turning up smile emoticon :
The Guild 6 bell striking competition was held this morning ( Sat May 21st) at Eversley. 5 teams entered, namely Eversley, Eling, Rotherwick & Odiham, Basingstoke St Michaels and Niton & Chale.The judges Julian Hemper and Julian Ferrar gave very fair and positive comments on all the ringing and were particularly pleased when one tower had a tricky section but continued ringing, pushed through and settled down to some good ringing again. The teams and their results are as follows;-
Placed 1st St. Michael’s Basingstoke 3.5 faults, placed 2nd Eling 6.5 faults, placed 3rd Niton and Chale 8 faults, placed 4th Rotherwick and Odiham 28.5 faults, placed 5th Eversley 35 faults
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Rain holds off for the Guild 6 and 8 bell striking contest.

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Report from Mark Esbester.      The Guild 8 bell striking competition was held this morning at Hawley – possibly the first time it has been outside the Guild’s territory! Only 3 teams had entered, namely Bishopstoke, Catherington and Hursley – where are all the Guild’s other 8-bell (and above) bands? The judge, Vernon Bedford, commented that all 3 teams had rung well, but Hawley bells are difficult to get really consistent, accurate ringing on. Bishopstoke, ringing last were the winners, with 17 faults, Hursley second with 24 and Catherington 3rd with 31.

Report from Greg Jordan.          The Guild 6 bell striking competition was also held this morning at Eversley. 5 teams entered, namely Eversley, Eling, Rotherwick & Odiham, Basingstoke St Michaels and Niton & Chale.The judges Julian Hemper and Julian Ferrar gave very fair and positive comments on all the ringing and were particularly pleased when one tower had a tricky section but continued ringing, pushed through and settled down to some good ringing again. The teams and their results are as follows;-     Placed 1st St. Michael’s Basingstoke 3.5 faults, placed 2nd Eling  6.5 faults, placed 3rd Niton and Chale  8 faults, placed 4th Rotherwick and Odiham 28.5 faults, placed 5th Eversley 35 faults.

Guild Master Viv Nobbs noted that it was good to see some very local bands entering and thanked those that had travelled quite a way to compete including the band from the Isle of Wight.

Some folk went on to The Northbrook Arms, had a lovely lunch and enjoyed the skittle ally and then went on to ring at Brown Candover and Micheldever who kindly opened their towers for us.  And then the rain came…. but it didn’t matter by then because everyone had had a lovely day.                                                                                                                                            A special mention and thanks go to Basingstoke District officers, the towers and the tea, coffee and biscuit servers!

 

Thanks to David Forder, Mark Esbester,Deb Baker and Martin Barnes for photos.

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APPEALING RINGING ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT FOR 2015!

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Now have the final list of Peals and Quarter Peals rung for 2015 at Island Towers.
1 Peal was rung at each of the following, 6 peals in all for the year: Freshwater (Jan); Carisbrooke (Apr); Newchurch (Aug); Chale (Nov); Whitwell (Nov); and Shorwell (Dec).

63 Quarter Peals were rung in 2015 by 9 of our towers:
Brading 19; Ryde 18; Brighstone 9; Chale 4; Godshill 4; Newchurch 4; Arreton 2; Niton 2; and Carisbrooke 1.

Ryde having massively upped their game from the average 6 Quarter Peals in the last few years.

There have been many more attempts at both and all who took part in any ringing, and all those that recorded ‘firsts’ in any ring, are to be congratulated on keeping ringing alive and to the fore on the Island. Well done all and especially so to the few conductors we have to rely on to help us out!

I should also say this is by only Island ringers, there have been visiting ringers but these are not recorded in our District Records.

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The Queen Writes to the Ringers at Ryde and Chale, Isle of Wight, Nov 2015

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They rang their bells at Ryde and Chale, they told the Queen, she replied!
Letter to Ryde Ringers from the Queen Nov 2015

Taken after the ringing for the Queen's Longest Reign event on September 9th at St Andrew's Church, Chale, which I organised to enable them to join in the celebrations. The letter from Buckingham Palace is acknowledgment of that together with Ryde's quarter peal effort, for which I have no pictorial record, although it is recorded on Bellboard.
John Stock writes: Taken after the ringing for the Queen’s Longest Reign event on September 9th at St Andrew’s Church, Chale, which I organised to enable them to join in the celebrations. The letter from Buckingham Palace is acknowledgment of that together with Ryde’s quarter peal effort, for which I have no pictorial record, although it is recorded on Bellboard.
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14 in a day challenge – Simon Edwards reports

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Brading Photograph by Jen Churchill
Brading Photograph by Jen Churchill
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Simon Edwards writes:

Last Saturday (31st May) a group of us attempted – and succeeded – in ringing a quarter peal on each of the Isle of Wight’s 14 towers, the first time all 14 have been done in a day. Aside from the madcap challenge, the idea was to raise some money towards the Brading Bells restoration fund, and at last hearing we had over £750 in the pot for this!! If anyone still wishes to donate to this worthwhile cause, please contact Daniel Graham.  I have produced a video memoir from a fantastic albeit exhausting day out and hope people enjoy watching. Click here to see details of the quarters

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