Association News

An interestingly named method being rung this week, at Ashwick in Somerset.  Enjoy! Note: if the video isn’t showing above, you may need an updated version of Adobe Flash Player which you can get here.

The 2017 KCACR Handbook is now available to buy, either in hard copy or as a digital copy (PDF) from here.  The price is £4, plus an SAE is required if it’s a hard copy.

The County AGM is being hosted by the Tonbridge District this year, on 17th April based at Cranbrook. A brochure has been prepared by the Tonbridge District which provides all the information you will need including open towers, how to book lunch and more.  This is available to download here. Read more…

For anyone wishing to leave a sum of money to the Association in their will, a suitable clause to be added to a will is now available on the Wills & Legacies page.  The link to this has also been added to F.L.A.U.N.T on the right-hand side of the home Read more…

The bells of St. Clement Danes on The Strand in London are a wonderful ring of 10 from Whitechapel, the tenor having to be recast in 1979 after it was rung after a chiming hammer had been fiddled with and major damage was caused.  Here we have the back 8 Read more…

September 2017 Ringing Courses at Tulloch (surprisingly easy to reach in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland) Download a PDF version of this post here to display in your towers 2 peals of bells, a simulator, handbells, patient & friendly ART tutors and no neighbours – all add up to a Read more…

Off to Bristol this week, and the only ring of 5 bells in the City that were rehung in a new frame in 1982.  Enjoy! Note: if the video isn’t showing above, you may need an updated version of Adobe Flash Player which you can get here.

You may know that the Central Council Public Relations Committee, with help from other ringers, has been working for some time on a set of PowerPoint presentations that ringers can use to explain our wonderful hobby to others.  This is something that we have often been asked for so we Read more…

This week we have some lovely ringing on the 1900 Taylor 10 at St. Mary, Beverley in East Yorkshire.  Enjoy! Note: if the video isn’t showing above, you may need an updated version of Adobe Flash Player which you can get here.

The ring of bells at Allesley has been improved by replacing several ancient bells. The 3rd and 4th bells were replaced with newly cast bells in 2011 and during 2016 the 6th bell was replaced by a bell from the redundant church of Holy Trinity, Bury, Gtr. Manchester.  Enjoy! Note: Read more…