Reminder for the C+S district 12 bell practice at Bitterne Park Southampton this evening starting at 18:00.
All levels welcome. Ringing rounds upwards. Special method Grandsire Caters and Cinques.
Tag Archives: Grandsire Caters
CS District – Special Method for Sat May 20th at Bitterne Park – Grandsire Caters/Cinques
The method for May will be Grandsire Caters and if we have enough attendees Grandsire Cinques. 6pm-8pm.
Daniel Graham Reports from the Southampton St Michael’s Practice Night
An enjoyable and rewarding practice night in Southampton last night at St Michael’s with a particularly good half course of Cambridge Royal and a nice touch of 8 spliced surprise major. Lots of other ringing too including Grandsire Triples/Caters, Stedman doubles and 4 spliced (CYNS) surprise major.
Next week, at Bitterne Park, we start our new venture of increasing our 8 bell repertoire, by starting to work through the methods in ‘Smiths 23’. First method is Cray Surprise Major.
As always all ringers welcome at any of our practices 🙂
CS District 12 Bell Practice – Tim Martin Reports
A successful 12 bell practice for the District tonight with about 20 people present at Christchurch. Good to see a number of people ring things for the first time including plain hunt on 11, stedman caters and Grandsire Cinques.
CS District 12 Bell Practice Saturday Oct 8th 6pm at Christchurch Priory
Winchester District Practice at the Cathedral – Wednesday 31st August
Wednesday 31st August 2016
7.15 p.m.-9.05 p.m.
at
Winchester Cathedral
(14 bells, tenor 35½ cwt)
Huge Variety of Rings up to the Celebrated Fourteen, including tens in G (11 cwt) and in F (14¾ cwt)
All Welcome
Bruce Purvis
Winchester District Secretary
23rd July 2016
Wanted! Team of Excellent 10 bell Ringers to represent the W+P in the Essex Trohpy
Date: Saturday 10 September
Time: 12 noon
Place: All Saints, Writtle. CM1 3EN
Method: Grandsire Caters
Website: Essex Guild
ESSEX trophy 2016 rules
If you would like to ring, or if you can muster a quality team from within Guild members, Please…
Contact Pete Jordan
Telephone: 01256 465510
Grandsire Caters at Basingstoke All Saints for the Queen’s 90th Birthday
Two Quarter Peals for St George’s Day in Southampton
Southampton City Ringers
Southampton, Hampshire
Southampton City Ringers
Lockerley Ringers score Firsts in Minehead
In visiting Minehead over the week-end Bren and I were just placed on ropes, without being told what we were ringing, as is Andrew’s way.
We then rang plain courses of PB10 and Grandsire Carters followed by Bren inside to Stedman Caters with me on the tenor (the Stedman may not be a first as we have rung it on the course at Hursley!).
Photo from http://www.aboutminehead.com/church/ used by permission
BBC Bells on Sunday Schedule for March 2016

March 2016 schedule.
6th. St. Francis, Cathedral, Adelaide., Sth. Aus. Ringing Cambridge Surprise Maximus
13th. Woodchurch, Wirral. Ringing Cambridge Surprise Major.
20th. Penn, Wolverhampton. Ringing Plain Bob Doubles.
27th. EASTER. Abergavenny, Monmouth. Ringing Grandsire Caters.
The BBC Bells on Sunday archive can be viewed by clicking here
Reminder – An Introduction to Ringing on Higher Numbers – Feb 20th
With Christmas behind us, the Education Committee is turning its attention to the 2016 courses – starting with AN INTRODUCTION TO RINGING ON HIGHER NUMBERS. This is scheduled for Saturday 20th February, 3.30 pm to 8.00 pm in the Winchester area, finishing at the Cathedral.
The posters and application forms went out well before Christmas (further copies below in case they have been mislaid) and I’m delighted to say we have already had a number of applicants. If this is something you have been contemplating, or if you know of somebody else in your Tower who is thinking about it, can I suggest you make your application sooner rather than later, as places are filled on a “first come first served” basis – the closing date for the receipt of applications is 4th February.
Thank you very much – and a Happy New Year to you all.
Christine Knights-Whittome
For: The Guild Education Committee
PS: There will be more information within the next few days on the next full-day course, which will be Plain Hunt and Trebling to Doubles Methods, Saturday 19th March.
For more information contact Christine Knights-Whittome
Here are the poster and application form in pdf and docx format:
- Poster – Higher Numbers – 20.02.16 (docx)
- Poster – Higher Numbers – 20.02.16 (pdf)
- Application Form – Higher Numbers – 20.02.16 (docx)
- Application Form – Higher Numbers – 20.02.16 (pdf)
An Introduction to Ringing on Higher Numbers – Feb 20th
The Education Committee is happy say the course which was unfortunately postponed last September is now scheduled to take place on Saturday 20th February, from 3.30 pm to 8.00 pm, based in the Winchester area and finishing at Winchester Cathedral.
This is your chance to try something different. If you are used to ringing on six or eight bells and do not normally ring on ten or more bells, this is an ideal opportunity. Don’t worry – you won’t be expected to learn any 10-bell methods; this is very much an introduction to ringing good rounds, call changes, plain hunt and, possibly, Plain Bob or Grandsire; don’t let that frighten you off as you will not be pushed out of your depth.
We are only able to accept a limited number of students – so think about it now!
For more information contact Christine Knights-Whittome
Here are the poster and application form in pdf and docx format:
- Poster – Higher Numbers – 20.02.16 (docx)
- Poster – Higher Numbers – 20.02.16 (pdf)
- Application Form – Higher Numbers – 20.02.16 (docx)
- Application Form – Higher Numbers – 20.02.16 (pdf)