Ringing World 5137 (9 October 2009)
Front Cover: All aboard for the SRCY Dinner! by Linda Garton
In recent years the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths have held a formal Dinner on a triennial basis. To reflect the fact that, although our headquarters is at St Martinin-the-Fields in London, we are very much a national society, recent dinners have been held in Cambridge and York, as well as London. All have been memorable events in very special venues and the 2009 dinner on Saturday, 12th September, held on the SS Great Britain in Bristol, one of the most iconic and significant historic ships in the world, certainly continued this trend! Such was the anticipation that the tickets for the event sold out almost immediately.
Letters
Child Protection - Chris Rogers
The CC Tower Stewardship Committee responds - Chris Mew
Hanoi Cathedral bourdon - Alan Blair
From the E-Lists A round-up from the internet compiled by John Camp
Nigel Titley proposed that access to the ringing-chamber should be by electronic card. This could be revoked, if performance was unsatisfactory.
Wedding bells at Holmer
Holmer church was the venue for the marriage of David Powell and Karen Williams on Friday, 11th September. The sun shone in a cloudless sky and there were beaming smiles from everyone to match.
For one day only! Cathedral bells on view by Wendy Graham
One of Carlisle’s greatest glories is its Cathedral and one feature that the Cathedral is justly proud of is its bells. On Saturday, 29th August the general public had the rare opportunity to view the bells and the room from which they are rung before the main service every Sunday morning and on other religious, civic and historical occasions.
EFTA French Connection by Bob Powell-Williams
On 17th July 2009 EFTA (Every Fourth Tuesday Association not European Free Trade Association) embarked on its latest carillon-grabbing excursion to the Nord-Pas de Calais region of France.
Obituary
Jane Treseder
What’s up that tower?
Chris Pickford explores … Rugeley Roman Catholic church, Staffs.
Rugeley is 85 miles from Bedford, where I was living in 1986. It is a small Staffordshire town midway between Lichfield and Stafford, set in pleasant countryside but now overshadowed by a huge power station.
A match-winning partnership
The wedding of Anthea Edwards and Philip Saddleton
We needed rain. Lots of it. It simply had to rain. England were looking down an Australian barrel at Headingley, and only a three-day deluge of Biblical proportions was going to save this green and pleasant land. But when I awoke on Saturday, 8th August 2009 I didn’t even need to twitch the curtains of my luxurious lodgings in Moseley to know that the sun was shining from a cloudless sky.
