Front Cover: An Evaluation of the Sherbourne Bell Club by Pam Donovan
Anyone who reads The Ringing World regularly will have seen the lists of Sherbourne Bell Club awards which are published regularly on the back page, but unless your tower uses the Bell Club you may not know much about it.

Aisthorpe bells are now ringing at Boothby Pagnell by John R. Ketteringham
At the time St Peter’s church Aisthorpe was first being considered for redundancy in 2005 I was a member of the Redundant Churches Uses Committee for the Diocese of Lincoln and Bells Adviser to the Diocesan Furnishings Officer. A representative of the Church Commissioners was present at a Committee Meeting and I took the opportunity to ask, as these bells were never going to be rung again for service, if they could be taken into store and a new home found for them.

Letters
Is ringing music? - Rod Lebon
Quick or slow in Stedman - Alan Blair
Record peals of Stedman Cinques - Bill Dowse
Security? – What security? - John Brain
Comparisons - John Harrison
1966 peal at Worcester Cathedral - J. Alan Ainsworth
Where is this? - Les Middleton

Re – ‘Sensitive information revealed’ (RW p.245) - North Lincolnshire Council

Edward Roberts by John Eisel
In former times the Hereford Journal, not unusually, copied items of interest from other newspapers. For ringing, these were usually reports of peals, and around 1800 a number of the peals rung by the Union Society of Shrewsbury were copied from the Shrewsbury papers. There were other items related to ringing that the editor of the Hereford Journal thought might be of interest to his readers, including reports of deaths of ringers from outside the area.

From the E-Lists A round-up from the internet compiled by John Camp
Philip Earis considers that Yorkshire should not be classified as a surprise method.

Obituaries
Arthur J. Gould, Marion Diana Gilbert

Book Review
Church Clocks, by Hugh Rock

Marriage of Jenny Ellins and Peter Hughes
A blustery Autumn day failed to dampen spirits when Jenny Ellins and Peter Hughes were married at York on 25th October 2008.

Thought for the week
The car park at our Church Hall needs repairing and resurfacing. As it is going to cost £8,000+, we decided we’d try to raise some of the money by having a sponsored ‘event’.