Ringing World 5175 (2 July 2010)
Front Cover: The Hereford Course 2010
Looking at the 2010 Hereford Ringing Course is a bit like looking at a bell rope. As ringers we take it for granted and think we know all about it. In fact, it is a complex thing.
Hereford is the Grand daddy of training courses, founded by Wilf Moreton. The course began in Easter week 1963, and has been run at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford since then. This year’s course ran between Thursday 8th and Sunday 11th April, marking the 48th anniversary. As it happened, Hereford enjoyed a warm and sunny spell of weather, the first after a cold and wet winter across the country
Book Review
The New Ringer’s Book
by John Harrison & Catherine Lewis
I immediately liked this publication, partly because of the ambiguity of the title – is it a new book for a ringer or a book for a new ringer? It is clearly the product of a great deal of thought, both in terms of content and layout. It is very comprehensive, and easy to read too. It is a handy A5 size, spiral bound for ease of use.
Ringing at the Devon County Show
From the 20th to 22nd May, both Guild and Association ringers manned a display at the Devon County Show. The main attraction was the Frank Mack Garage Ring, coming this time with new ropes, and a fitted rain hood which was not needed in the soaring temperatures! Volunteers sported shorts or went off to buy hats from nearby stalls.
Ridgman 10 bell striking competition: the view from behind the kettle at Great St. Mary’s
by Marj Winter
For one behind the kettle, a striking competition involving thousands of travelling man miles, nine 10-bell bands, a city centre church in a city renowned for Saturday traffic snarl-ups, is an invitation to Worry on a generous scale. Add to that, the frictions generated by the challenge of finding local ringers when the principal local band is already distracted by the imminent 12-bell striking competition left the tea sub lieutenant looking forward rather to the end of the day than the beginning.
Letters
Call to Culham Campanologists - Albert Spreadbury
Railway reveries - John Cornelius
Pigeon lofts in church towers - John McCann
Nice public casting - Geoffrey Aldridge
Learning: what helps, what hinders
3. Children and Adults sometimes learn differently by Wendy Graham
Of course, we are all human beings, with similar aspirations (to succeed!) and emotions, but we all change and develop (to a greater or lesser extent) as we age. The same “Golden Rules” apply to the teacher whether the pupil is a child or an adult but strengths and stresses vary and approaches and attitudes need to be treated differently by the teacher.
Obituary
Peter Graham Davies
Jonathan Hughes memorial
A few months ago, I received a phone call from Mike Homans. He asked if the Worcester Cathedral Teaching Centre would like some bells and a set of twelve dumbbells? They had belonged to Jonathan Hughes, and his family would like to find a suitable home for it all, and please could it be a memorial? Jonathan was an enthusiastic and talented young ringer. His untimely death in 2005 was a shock to all and a great loss to bellringing. Jonathan had the talent to achieve great things and he was committed to teaching ringing. Just before Jonathan died I’d invited him into a peal at Worcester Cathedral. They were his favourite bells, and, he told me, Peter Border’s too. Impeccable taste.
