We had an enjoyable morning at All Saints, Hollingbourne for the Maidstone District Practice, Tower Captains Meeting and Quarterly District Meeting: Rounds, Call Changes, Doubles, Grandsire and Stedman Triples, Plain and Little Bob Major. Our thanks to the local ringers and the church for hosting the event; Nigel Baker and Read more…
Date: Saturday 13 July 2019 Time: 10.00 – 12.30 pm, Meeting: 11.00 am Location: Hollingbourne, All Saints (8,13cwt) Upper Floor Ringing Chamber Postcode: ME17 1HW Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. Ringing from Rounds and Call Changes upwards. Refreshments and WC available. Agenda for the Meeting, Minutes of the Read more…
Maidstone district practice at All Saints, Snodland was another well supported events. Thanks to Terry for leading the ringing: rounds, call changes, Bob Doubles, Grandsire Doubles, Stedman Doubles, Bob Minor and Cambridge Surprise Minor. Our thanks to the local ringers and the church for hosting the event and providing lovely Read more…
Maidstone District practice for June is as follows: Date: Saturday 8th June Time: Ringing from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon Location: All Saints, Snodland (6 bells, 8 cwt) Upper Floor Ringing Chamber Postcode: ME6 5AT Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend – ringing from rounds and call changes upwards. Read more…
Ringers found! Thank you for all the offers. Help needed! St Peter’s Ightham have a Heritage Day on Saturday June 15th highlighting the history of the church (part Saxon/Norman). They would like also to highlight the historic bells (oldest 1470) and we are requested to ring from 1.45-2.30pm All our Read more…
Just a reminder of Maidstone District Practice Date: Saturday 11 May Time: Ringing from 10:00 to 12:00 noon Location: All Saints, Staplehurst (10 bells, 19 cwt) Postcode: TN12 0AY Parking: Available in the public car park in Bell Lane, opposite the church. It is the second car park approx 200 Read more…
The Maidstone district practice and DQM in Chart Sutton was well attended by an enthusiastic band of ringers. Terry lead the ringing which included some of the local speciality of card ringing (see photo). Terry also chaired the meeting which included the election of new members (again see photo). Our Read more…
A reminder of our next District Quarterly Meeting, with Practice: Date: Saturday 13 April 2019 Time: 10.00 – 12.30 pm, Meeting: 11.00 am Location: Chart Sutton, St Michael (6. 14cwt) Ground Floor Ring, no WC Postcode: ME17 3RB Parking information: Please park in the road below the church and please Read more…
Barry Evans reports that there will be no practice at Mereworth on Tuesday 19th March but there will be practice in Wateringbury instead.
On a beautifully sunny morning East Malling graciously hosted the Maidstone District 6-bell Striking Competition. There were two rounds with six teams entering for the call change round and four teams entering the method striking round. The winners were: Call Change Striking: East Malling. Method Striking: Staplehurst. Marden won the Read more…