Ringing World 5134 (18 September 2009)
Front Cover: Paul Cattermole 1941 - 2009
Paul gave a lifetime to bells and bell ringing. He learned to ring in Beccles as a 12 year old living opposite the church when his curiosity was aroused by the sound of bells on practice night. In Norwich, where aged eight he had won a scholarship to the Norwich School, he joined the St Giles practice. He also hauled his friend Peter Adcock along, an early manifestation of a lifelong ability to involve others in ringing. By the age of 16 he was teaching fellow youngsters and forming bands.
“Ring a ding ding” for hospital birthday din!
I am wondering how often a quarter peal is rung for a hospital. Perhaps the band of staff and patients that assembled at the Priory Church of St Peter in Dunstable on Saturday, 8th August, were making history by ringing for the 70th anniversary of the Luton and Dunstable Hospital?
Welsh Colleges Society becomes a TOC! (Train Operating Co.)
The 2009 Welsh Colleges 50th anniversary summer festivities involved over 70 ringers, 23 towers, 20 bicycles, one coach, one peal, numerous tents and chartered a a railway.
Some memories of north Essex in the 1950s
I always read with interest the reports in The Ringing World detailing the work that is going on to train young ringers and to learn with pleasure of the progress and achievements that are happening in various places. This has brought to mind memories of my own formative years in ringing and I thought that I should share some of these in the hope that they might be of interest to today’s young ringers.
T is for Tick by Simon Linford
Letters
Miss Marie Cross - Betty Robbins (née Spice)
3-bell “recognition” - Robin Woolley
A singular response... - Alistair Donaldson
Did he score! - Rt Revd Barry Peachey
Aspergers and ringing - Paul Southward
Peals of Grandsire Doubles by John Eisel
While sorting out the details for my recent article Down in the Forest …, I used the facility on the Felstead website to list known peals of Grandsire Minor in date order, and hence make comments on a peal in that method that had been rung in Gloucester and which did not appear in the database. At the same time I also checked the listing of peals of Grandsire Doubles, the results of which indicated to me that there were several gaps. I have now had time to look at what is there, not only to make comments about that information, but to add in other peals that I am aware of, so that there is a much fuller picture.
Obituaries
Florence L. Smith, Brigadier Martin John Lance
Diary of a South African adventure – part 3 (of 3) by Roy LeMarechal
30 Apr Thu – I had to attend Dr Owen’s clinic after developing a nasty reaction to an insect bite from a few days earlier. Apparently I wasn’t a very good patient.
From the E-Lists A round-up from the internet compiled by John Camp
How can you access the internet without using a browser? asked a subscriber.
York students teach school pupils to ring
Summer term is always exceptionally busy for members of York Colleges Guild with exams fitting around Dinner Day weekend and summer excursions, but this year an extra challenge loomed. Since Christmas a plan had been in the pipeline to teach pupils from Bootham School in York to ring.
75 Years of ringing
Miss Doris Colgate became a member of the Kent County Association of Change Ringers in 1934. This year, 2009, we celebrated her 75th anniversary of that membership.
