Ringing Suspended at St Mary’s Tower, East Claydon.
All ringing at St Mary’s tower, East Claydon has been suspended with immediate effect until the repairs to the tower roof have been completed. The decision was made by the DCC following a recent inspection of the tower roof.
Thursday evening practices will be at St Michael’s Church Tower, Steeple Claydon at the usual time of 19:30, for the foreseeable future.
If anyone has any queries or questions, please contact Kate Edgar at eastclaydon@cbucks.odg.org.uk.
How Ringing Works.
The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers has released a booklet entitled ‘From Practice to Perfect’. It contains a lot of useful information about how church bells ringers are trained, safeguarded and organised and, although it is aimed primarily at the clergy, PCCs and safeguarding advisors, please take time to have a look as it may be useful within your towers.
A copy may be downloaded here as a ‘pdf’ file.
Special Practices
Special practices will be held on the third Wednesday of the month at Stewkley, from 7.30 to 9pm.
The plan is to continue into 2025 with the monthly focussed practices but moving onto Grandsire.
Practices are therefore planned for:
Wednesday 22nd January NOTE – a week later than the usual.
Wednesday 19th February
Wednesday 19th March
Wednesday 16th April
Wednesday 21st May
Wednesday 18th June
Wednesday 16th July
Wednesday 20th August
Wednesday 17th September
Wednesday 15th October
Wednesday 19th November
Wednesday 17th December
all from 7.30 to 9pm.
Dates for your Diary
BRANCH PRACTICES
Second Saturdays of the month: 10:00 – 12:00
unless otherwise stated.
Dates for 2025
| January 11th | Mursley |
| February 8th |
AGM – Aylesbury Open Ringing from 14:00 |
| March 8th |
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| April 12th |
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| May 10th |
Central Bucks Striking Competition |
| June 14th |
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| July 12th |
Dinton |
| August 9th |
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| September 13th |
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| October 18th |
Orchard Cup – Tower to be confirmed |
| November 8th |
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| December 13th |
* To Be Confirmed
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Tower Practice Nights Please contact tower |
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| Monday: Chearsley (not B/H) Great Horwood Winslow |
. – 01296 713281 01296 715106 |
Branch Chairman: Sherri Woodland chairman@cbucks.odg.org.uk . Branch Vice-Chairman: Oliver Rhodes vicechairman@cbucks.odg.org.uk . Secretary: John Chantler secretary@cbucks.odg.org.uk . Treasurer: Amanda Digne-Malcolm treasurer@cbucks.odg.org.uk . Ringing Master: Ailsa Knightley brm@cbucks.odg.org.uk . Deputy Ringing Master: Jan Robinson dbrm@cbucks.odg.org.uk . Branch Representative: Kate Edgar branchrep1@cbucks.odg.org.uk . Webmaster: Ted Robinson webmaster@cbucks.odg.org.uk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Tuesday: Aylesbury Marsh Gibbon Twyford Whitchurch |
. 07723 621385 01896 277671 01896 277671 07795 988135 |
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| Wednesday: Granborough Haddenham Little Horwood Quainton Stewkley Wingrave |
. 07710 189575 01844 345439 07984 332532 01296 658665 07745 478573 01296 681879 |
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| Thursday: Aston Abbotts Dinton* Drayton Parslow* East Claydon Hardwick Long Crendon Soulbury* Swanbourne |
. 01296 681478 01296 748679 01296 720608 07799 766270 01296 640906 01844 208948 07713 626780 01296 720219 |
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| Friday: Bierton Cuddington Nether Winchendon* Wing Wotton Underwood* |
. 07958 527490 01844 292221 01844 290307 01296 682915 01296 770473 |
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| Saturday: Mursley (10:30 – 12:00) |
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| * Occasional–check in advance |
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