Category Archives: Houghton
Wedding Ringers Needed at Broughton, Houghton and Mottisfont Aug and Sept
We have lots of weddings coming up over the next couple of months and I’m afraid can’t get enough ringers for all of them from local resources! Can anyone help please?
We are short of ringers as follows:-
4th August, St Marys Broughton, 1200 wedding, 1 ringers needed
25th August, St Marys Broughton,1500 wedding. 1 ringer needed.
25th August, St Andrews Mottisfont,1400 wedding, 2 ringers needed
22nd September, All Saints Houghton,1300 wedding, 2 ringers needed.
We have been asked to ring before and after all the weddings so pull off time is 30 minutes before the wedding times above.
If you are able to help please could you reply to Bob Gosse
Winchester District Practice – Monday 20th Nov – 7.30pm – Houghton
Dear All,
It’s That Time of Year! Stuff happening all around us! The next Winchester District practice will be on Monday 20th November, 7.30 p.m., and it is at Houghton.
Posters attached, please display/distribute to your band members/put the word round.
Hope to see as many as possible of you there, to support the Houghton/Broughton band.
Best wishes till the 20th
Bruce
District Secretary
Link to Poster – Please print off and display in your tower.
Houghton – No Regular Ringing
Winchester Quarterly District Meeting with Ringing, Picnic and a Gentle Stroll – Houghton, Stockbridge and King’s Somborne – Saturday 12th August 2017
Dear All
Phew! At last!
Here is the poster for the next quarterly meeting, coming up soon – Saturday week to be precise.
I’ll get the agenda and the minutes of the last meeting out tomorrow, and will test the various route possibilities within the next few days. It’s all to be found on OS Explorer no. 131.
Following the time-honoured format, we begin with a try-out on the interesting new ring of six at All Saints’, Houghton, then lunch (BYO) either inside or on the lawn outside the Village Hall in Houghton, where also there will be tea/coffee-making facilities and loos, and parking. Then we have a probably quite short business meeting, and walk to Stockbridge. There are three possible routes, the shortest of which is along the public highway. I am advised this is do-able but can be hairy owing to the presence of tractors, Chelsea or otherwise. There is a longer and more circuitous route to the west over the downs, or you can make your way to the public footpath along the old railway track to Stockbridge.
We ring at Stockbridge from 3.00 to 4.00, which will be a real treat. I attended the inaugural practice on the newly reinstalled six, and – apart from the hazard of the five going up wrong – they handle like a dream.
Depending what arrangements you make, there are options at Stockbridge, including Lillie’s tea rooms, open till 4.45; I have arranged for the King’s Somborne bells to be available from 5.30 onwards, tho’ to get afternoon tea in Stockbridge AND make it to King’s Somborne you will doubtless need to have transport sorted out – or you could walk to KS from Stockbridge and have a coffee/tea or a drink at the pub in King’s Somborne after ringing there.
Best wishes,
I’ll write again soon,
Bruce
Winchester District Secretary
Winchester District practice at Houghton 23rd April – CANCELLED!
A First at the Hursley Beginners Practice
Sue Welch , a new Houghton ringer rang Plain Hunt Doubles for the first time on the treble at the Hursley beginners practice on Tuesday March. 1st.