Bells Near Newbury

Advanced Practice
2022-07-15 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-06-17 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
There will be an Advanced Practice (formerly the Surprise Practice) on the third Friday of each month from 7:30pm to 9pm. The practice will include methods such as Stedman, Little Bob, Kent, Oxford and Double Norwich, as well as the previous Standard eight surprise and special methods. We will try to include whatever people would like to ring in the more advanced field and if there are special requests, please let Mike Hopkins Till know.

Branch 6-Bell Striking Competition
2022-07-01 19:30 - 21:00
From: The Branch Chairman, Martin Rice.At the Branch AGM we decided to hold a Branch 6-bell Striking Competition this summer. I have booked the bells at St Mary’s, Shaw for the occasion for the evening of Friday, July 1st.
I do hope your tower will enter a band. The rules for entering are that the majority of your band are from your tower and that you ring for about 5 minutes. You can have a few minutes practice immediately before your ‘proper’ ringing, and when you are ready to start, ring two whole-pulls on the treble to alert the judge.
What you ring is up to you, but it is expected that most bands will ring what they would for a Sunday service: probably call-changes or 120 of Grandsire Doubles. The judging will be based on the evenness and pleasantness of the ringing, rather than its complexity.
At the end of the evening we will pick a band to go forward to represent our Branch at the Guild 6-bell competition. This will also be at Shaw, by the way, on Saturday, October 1st. But don’t let that put you off coming to our local event! Come and show what you can do.
Some idea of the number of bands hoping to come would be helpful, if you could let me or Mark know.

Manchester University Guild Outing
2022-06-18 16:15 - 17:15
The Manchester University Guild (ancient members) will be ringing at Newbury Tower from 4:15pm to 5:15pm as part of their outing on Saturday 18th June.Attending keyholder – Deb.

Newbury Cub Scouts tower tour
2022-05-26 06:30 - 20:00
Newbury Cub Scouts will be visiting the Tower on Thursday 26th May from 6:30pm to 8pm.Attending keyholder – David.

Practice for ODG 8 Bell Striking Competition
2022-05-21 10:30 - 23:30
This will be a practice for the Newbury Team taking part in the ODG 8 Bell Striking Competition later the same day at Goring on Thames.Attending keyholder – Martin.

Advanced Practice
2022-05-20 07:30 - 21:00
There will be an Advanced Practice (formerly the Surprise Practice) on the third Friday of each month from 7:30pm to 9pm.As requested at the Newbury Branch AGM, we will cover methods such as Stedman Triples, Plain and Little Bob Major, Double Norwich, Kent, Oxford and the standard Surprise Major methods, as required by the people present.
As we have had two abortive attempts to run this practice so far this year, it would help if people could email Mike Hopkins Tell to let him know that they will attend. That will help to confirm that we will have enough people to make the practice viable.

Branch Practice
2022-05-06 19:30 - 21:00
May’s Branch practice will be on Friday 6th at Peasemore (7.30pm).The method of the month is Antelope Doubles, (as featured in The Ringing World recently). Other methods will be available!

Branch Practice
2022-04-01 19:30 - 21:00
The next first-Friday Branch practice will be at Great Shefford on April 1st.Great Shefford is a unique ringing experience in the Newbury Branch, with its anti-clockwise ring and exciting spiral staircase. Very nice, easy-ringing bells though.
Suggested methods are Plain Bob Minor and Little Bob Minor.

Advanced Practice
2022-03-18 19:30 - 21:00
There will be an Advanced Practice (formerly the Surprise Practice) on the third Friday of each month, starting on 18th March at Highclere from 7:30pm to 9pm. The practice will include methods such as Stedman, Little Bob, Kent, Oxford and Double Norwich, as well as the previous Standard eight surprise and special methods. We will try to include whatever people would like to ring in the more advanced field and if there are special requests, please let Mike Hopkins Till know.

Branch AGM
2022-03-05 09:45
The 2022 AGM of the Newbury Branch will be held at Yattendon Village Hall on Saturday 5th March. The programme is as follows:9:45am Open ringing
10:30am Service
11.15am AGM in the village hall
The agenda for the AGM can be found here – https://newbury.odg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/filr/2141/Newbury Branch AGM 2022 Agenda.doc

Quarter Peal attempt
2022-02-27 17:00 - 18:00
A band of local ringers will be attempting a quarter peal at Newbury Tower. The attempt will start at 5pm on Sunday 27th February, prior to the 6pm church service.

Quarter Peal attempt
2022-02-25 19:30 - 20:30
Newbury Tower members will be attempting a Quarter Peal as part of the Branch Ringing Week. The attempt will start at 7:30pm on Friday 25th February.

Quarter Peal attempt
2022-02-21 19:30 - 20:30
Newbury Tower members will be attempting a Quarter Peal as part of the Branch Ringing Week. This will be done instead of the usual practice at 7:30pm on Monday 21st February.

Quarter Peal attempt
2022-02-20 17:00 - 18:00
Newbury Tower members will be attempting a Quarter Peal as part of the Branch Ringing Week. The attempt will start at 5pm on Sunday 20th February, prior to the 6pm church service.

Branch Ringing Week
2022-02-19 00:00 - 2022-02-26 00:00
For more information about this year’s Ringing Week please see the flyer – https://newbury.odg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/filr/2129/Branch Ringing Week Flyer2022.pdf
