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Annual Outing: |
Saturday, 5th July 2008 - Visiting
West Coker 8, 12 cwt,
Bradford Abbas 6, 13-2-21,
Cerne Abbas 6, 13-0-8,
Martinstown 6, 8-1-4 and Bradpole 8, 15-1-0,
with lunch at Cerne Abbas and Fish & Chips, tea, beer etc. at Bridport.
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Striking Competition: |
Saturday, 19th July 2008 - East Devon Branch 6 bell Striking Competition at Offwell, followed by buffet and skittles.
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Honiton 750
Open Day: |
Saturday, 26th July 2008 - The tower will be open again to coincide with
the annual celebration of the granting of the town's market charter.
We shall be hosting the guild's mini-ring, so let's hope for fine weather.
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Ringing Roadshow: |
Friday 5th and Saturday 6th September 2008 at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire.
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Guild Striking
Competition: |
Saturday 18th October 2008 at Appledore.
We have to enter a team for the 6 bell competition, because of our win at Branch level last year.
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Xmas Dinner: |
Wednesday, 10th December 2008 - details TBA.
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Recent News |
Mini-Outing:
15th March 2008 |
We rang at Shute, Musbury, Feniton and Buckerell, with a pub lunch at The Old Inn, Kilmington.
We rang a number of doubles methods and lots of Plain Hunt for our regular learner Sandra who is progressing well.
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Annual Report:
January 2008 |
As usual we have had a busy year.
We rang regularly for Sunday services, even when we only had four ringers,
and we are very pleased to count amongst our ringers Jim Crabb,
who struggles up the stairs, twice, nearly every week.
We have held regular practices throughout the year,
and are now hosts to the monthly Advanced Doubles practice and the new monthly Listening Practice.
We have had a number of visiting bands during the year, to ring method and call-changes, for outings, peals, quarters.
Recruitment:
Sandra started ringing and Janet re-started after the June Open Day and they have now both rung for Sunday services,
and have already progressed to Plain Hunt.
Marissa has also joined us, having recently re-started ringing after a long break.
A 'Free Lessons' story which appeared unexpectedly in a local newspaper and has led to John taking up the challenge.
So, with four promising learners, who started this year, and another three talking of starting in the new year,
things are definitely looking up.
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QP for Don Salter:
5th January 2008 |
Ringers from the tower and across the branch rang a Quarter Peal of Grandsire Triples in honour of Donald Salter,
with thanks for 18 years as Tower Captain and a life-time of ringing,
including 16 years as Deputy Branch Ringing Master.
Don has unfortunately had to give up ringing due to ill health,
although we hope he will soon recover to be able to ring with us again.
Don was presented with a plaque to commemorate the event.
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Xmas Dinner:
12th December 2007 |
An enjoyable meal at The Awliscombe Inn, with a quiz and a raffle, thanks to Grace,
which raised £25 towards tower funds.
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Honiton 750
Open Day:
28th July 2007 |
Another successful open day, although sadly none of the new starters has stayed the course on this occasion.
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Striking Competition:
14th July 2007 |
We were the winners of the East Devon Branch 6 Bell Striking Competition at Feniton.
The band were 1. Kathy Matthews, 2. Pam Bailey, 3. Paddy Priscott, 4. Keith Matthews (C), 5. Derek Ballard
and 6. Terry Rowland, and we rang Grandsire Doubles.
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Festival Open Day:
9th June 2007 |
We held a successful open day, when we showed visitors the bells,
gave two demonstrations of Raising, Call Changes, a Touch of Plain Bob, and Lowering,
plus a few 'have a go' sessions for non-ringers.
We are hopeful that this will have resulted in at least one new recruit.
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Annual Outing:
16th June 2007 |
This year we visited the Bideford area, with ringing at Fremington (6) 8-3-19, Westleigh (6) 11-0-8,
Northam (8) 14-0-25, Appledore (8) 10-3-26 and Great Torrington (8) 14-3-4,
a lunch stop in Bideford and time for tea/supper in Great Torrington.
Everything went pretty much to plan.
We were 15 ringers and getting on for 25 non-ringers.
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Bells Overhaul:
May 2007 |
Nicholson Engineering carried out maintenance including replacing clapper bushes.
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Branch AGM:
10th February 2007 |
We hosted the Branch AGM. A total of 26 attended the meeting and most attended the ringing before hand.
Memorable incidents included one broken rope, one broken stay pin,
a blown fuse on the organ and a tripped fuse in the kitchen.
Apart from that it was a great success and a few stayed to ring afterwards,
when we managed, among other things, Cambridge S Minor.
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