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Flag up again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 22 (!

Flag up again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

22 (!)(full house!) in the tower tonight, including 5 visitors. We welcomed a group from Kingston Association for the Blind and they had a go at chiming the bells and enjoyed listening to our practice night. They said when all 12 bells were ringing, it made a tremendous sound! 🔔 #heavymetal

Our beginners all did really well with bell handling and ringing rounds on 6 and 12 - special shout-out to Junnan who was ringing comfortably on his own 👍🏻; Heather got to lead for the first time for call changes - well done!; So-Shan and Kate rang PBD (it’s coming along!); Gavin rang PH6; the experienced ringers rang Grandsire Triples and Stedman Triples; and girl power - So-Shan rang bell 10 (thanks Graeme for pushing me!) and Kate C rang the tenor for rounds on 12 to finish off #tenorqueen #covergirl 💪🏻 #girlpower #kingstonuponthames #allsaintschurchkingston #kingstonbellringers

Straight arms, reaching up. I was trained well! #b

Straight arms, reaching up. I was trained well! #bellringing 🔔 (I also have Sweet Caroline in my head now after writing that sentence! “Hands, touching hands
Reaching out, touching me, touching you” 😂🤣) #nobentarmshere #kingstonbellringers #allsaintschurchkingston #kingstonuponthames 📸@linda_georgiades

Lovely light patterns made by the stained glass th

Lovely light patterns made by the stained glass this morning 🤩 16 in the tower this morning so several rounds on 12, including call changes, Stedman Triples, Grandsire Caters and PH9. And then lovely coffee morning at Dwenna with her balcony doors open. #bellringing #allsaintschurchkingston #kingstonuponthames #stainedglass #kingstonbellringers

How happy does Kate @corneykate look ringing the t

How happy does Kate @corneykate look ringing the tenor! Well done on your first go - and ringing so well, especially on the Grandsire Triples! 👏🏻 🎉

15 tonight; Kate F in charge; new learner Roshan rang in rounds on 6 for the first time; beginners Junnan and Chris rang rounds on 6 and 8 and Chris also got to turn bell 11 and the tenor over too; Gavin and Dwenna rang PH7; Adrian rang a nice touch of Stedman Doubles; the experienced ringers also rang Cambridge and So-Shan rang PBD (it’s coming along now - finally!) and PH5 while the others rang the Flying Dutchman so she could practice ropesight.

And the new rope on 3 is really nice and bouncy, and the sally is nice and fluffy and full! #kingstonbellringers #allsaintschurchkingston #kingstonuponthames #bellringing

Graeme and Paul put a new rope on bell 3 and it ne

Graeme and Paul put a new rope on bell 3 and it needs a little stretch still so after we had lowered the bells after evensong ringing, they tied it to the display bell we have in the centre of the ringing room until Wednesday practice night.

12 for #evensong ringing; beginner Chris got on well with rounds on 8 so he was allowed to ring on 10, and then twice on 12! Well done @wimbledon_chris on your first go on 12 👍🏻 So-Shan rang PH7, Gavin rang the tenor and the experienced ringers had enough for Grandsire Triples 🔔 #bellringing #sally #newropes #kingstonbellringers #allsaintschurchkingston #kingstonuponthames

A new addition to my #bellringing badges 🔔 As

A new addition to my #bellringing badges 🔔

As part of the Jubilee celebrations this year the General Committee of the Surrey Association have commissioned a commemorative pin badge. These will be given to every Resident Member of the Association and were distributed at the AGM yesterday at Bletchingley. Thank you Kate for picking up my one! #surreybells #surreyassociation #queensplatinumjubilee #platinumjubilee #platinumjubilee2022 #queensjubilee #queensjubilee2022 #kingstonbellringers

Good morning from #kingstonbellringers 🔔 #bellr

Good morning from #kingstonbellringers 🔔 #bellringing - 11 so call changes on 10 twice, PH7 with Kate C, and swipe for a short snippet of Grandsire Triples #bellringing And don’t we all wish walking up the 52 steps to the top was as quick as the time lapse video! #kingstonuponthames #allsaintschurchkingston

Congratulations to our tower captain, Paul Flavell

Congratulations to our tower captain, Paul Flavell, who takes over from Noel Gibbons as the General Master of @surreybells Surrey Association of Bell Ringers at yesterday’s AGM held at Bletchingley👍🏻👑 #bellringing #surreyassociation #surreybellringers #generalmaster #paulflavell #noelgibbons #kingstonbellringers 📸 @linda_georgiades

Plotting! Graeme in charge tonight and each learne

Plotting! Graeme in charge tonight and each learner was given a chance to improve on the thing that has been tripping them up lately. For me, it was ropesight and placing my bell in the right place which involves knowing who you’re following. I was placed on the treble, then Graeme got in a huddle with the middle bells to tell them what they were doing. Then I had to practice rope sight and move a place in plain hunt when he called change, and then tell him how many bells I was following and which bell was following which. I was very slow at it and couldn’t really see it. Overthinking is my trouble!

Beginners Colin, Chris, Junnan and Hong Li got to ring on 6 and 8 and practiced changes and did really well. Gavin and Kate got to practice ropesight too, and got plenty of tenor practice too while I practiced trebling and leading on 6 and 8. The experienced ringers rang Cambridge and Stedman Doubles, bringing Judith out of retirement again -it’s about 20 years since she’d last rung that!

Slightly tortuous (for me anyway) but a really good practice with plenty of rope time 👍🏻 #bellringing #allsaintschurchkingston

Quarter peal on Sunday of 1280 Lincolnshire Surpri

Quarter peal on Sunday of 1280 Lincolnshire Surprise Major. Get well compliments to #kingstonbellringers band member Geoff Paul (who hails from Lincolnshire so he was chuffed they rang this) and our #allsaintschurchkingston organist David Condry. #bellringing #quarterpeal Lovely #quarterpealselfie @linda_georgiades 📸

Tonight’s #bellringing practice report by @miste

Tonight’s #bellringing practice report by @mistersplashy.

Like Mickey Mouse’s character in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Gavin cast a spell over Wednesday’s practice, hoping to emulate Paul’s magical mastery of bell ringing 🪄 🪄🪄.

Sporting his Mickey Mouse bow tie, he commanded the experienced ringers to perform both Cambridge Minor and Major, while Colin and Heather completed fast place changes to much applause 👏 👏

Chris, Junnan and Hong Li rang rounds for a spell, while So-Shan charmed us by ringing PBD and trebling to Grandsire Doubles.

David (with Judith’s handiwork) won the best knitwear award🏅(pictured standing next to the 5 in pics 1 and 2).

#kingstonuponthames #bellringing #allsaintschurchkingston #kingstonbellringers

Nice to welcome back our leaders, Paul and Kate af

Nice to welcome back our leaders, Paul and Kate after their holiday in France and ringing at Vernet-les-Bains on the new ring of 10 (installed in 2019.) 13 eventually this morning so several rounds on 8 and eventually several rounds on 12, So-Shan got to ring her first PH7 on bell 4 and it wasn’t too bad for her first go for service ringing, and Grandsire Triples for the experienced ringers. Normal ringing tonight for #evensong so do come along if you can. #bellringing #kingstonbellringers #allsaintschurchkingston 📸 1: @linda_georgiades 📸2&3: @soshanau

Judith (treble in picture 1) accompanies her husba

Judith (treble in picture 1) accompanies her husband David (3) to the tower each week but doesn’t ring as she has pain in her hands. I persuaded her to come out of retirement to help make up the numbers for Cambridge Minor. I was standing behind her, trying to make out treble bobbing. Adrian (5) and Mike (3) said it was so nice ringing with Judith again, and we were told the story of Judith getting Mike back into #bellringing in 1997 when he attended Judith’s father’s funeral (the famous #louisessen, the inventor of the #atomicclock and Mike’s first boss at #npl #nationalphysicallaboratory) 🤩😍

And can we take a moment to appreciate another fine jumper knitted by Graeme (tenor in picture 2 and treble in picture 3) 🤩

12 in the tower tonight so plenty of rounds for beginners, Junnan and Chris who did really well ringing both strokes on their own; more rounds for returning learner Colin too; PBD for So-Shan; PH6 with Gavin ringing the 4; finished off with concentrating on good striking on call changes. Some fine striking 👍🏻 Thank you Mike for another good practice.

#kingstonbellringers #kingstonuponthames #allsaintschurchkingston

First one up to the ringing chamber for Sunday mor

First one up to the ringing chamber for Sunday morning service #bellringing - and some lovely light flowing in 👌🏻 10 this morning so we rang rounds and call changes on 8, with some nice striking, and Grandsire Triples. No evensong ringing tonight. #allsaintschurchkingston #kingstonuponthames #kingstonbellringers

Busy in the tower with 20 (!) for #bellringing pra

Busy in the tower with 20 (!) for #bellringing practice night - a warm welcome to visiting St Mary’s Twickenham band (pictured) who enjoyed ringing on 12.

Graeme in charge and ran a really good practice, giving the learners (from Kingston and Twickenham) rounds on 6; Heather got to ring rounds and call changes on 10 and 12; Gavin trebled to Plain Hunt on 7, with a twist (moving the back bells so that Gavin doesn’t rely on learning the order of the bells -sneaky!) and So-Shan rang Plain Bob Doubles, and once more again with a twist: added 4 more bells to the mix (ringing Plain Hunt) so that I had more time to think about my dodges and places. It worked! And I can say I’ve rung a method on experimental 10 🤣.

And the experienced ringers rang Stedman Caters and Cambridge Major.

For one of the rounds on 12, Graeme placed me on bell 10 (I’ve never rung that far back before!) which caused Adrian to do a double take when he glanced over and saw me way back there! 😂)

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The bells, the bells 🔔- the glorious bells @gui

The bells, the bells 🔔- the glorious bells @guildfordcathedral. An absolute privilege to ring and see such lovely bells @12bellguildford 🔔 The last stop on the #guildfordguild #opentowersday #toweropenday. I think the pics with people in them are good actually as they give you the scale and size of the magnificent bells #bellringing #kingstonbellringers on tour

Ringers on the Guildford Guild Open Towers Day ⛪

Ringers on the Guildford Guild Open Towers Day ⛪️🔔 #bellringing #guildfordguild #toweropenday #surrey

Gavin and So-Shan from #kingstonbellringers did a spot of tower grabbing on Easter Monday, taking in 17 towers out of the 27 on offer!

Lovely to meet and ring with so many Instagram bell ringer friends too!

Happy Easter from the #kingstonbellringers 🐣

Happy Easter from the #kingstonbellringers 🐣

9 #bellringing this morning so lots of call changes on 8, some ‘Romanesque’ ringing up 🙉😂, better ringing down (I still tend to race too much!) and a Maggie (treble) and So-Shan (tenor) sandwich for a touch of Grandsire Doubles (Maggie’s description 😂). Just about got my strength back after a bout of Covid so not sure it was a good idea ringing the tenor (bell 8) but managed it mostly, although I drifted off and lost my concentration towards the end, sorry band!

Not enough ringers for #easter #evensong though.

And pic 3 is the flag up - well done Graeme on your successful first steeplekeeper duties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

And pic 4 is the acrobatic squirrel 🐿

Coffee morning was a select few with delicious chocolate cake with mascarpone icing at Dwenna’s 😋

#allsaintschurchkingston #kingstonuponthames

Palm Sunday morning service ringing saw 10 in the

Palm Sunday morning service ringing saw 10 in the tower, including 3 visitors (thank you Sally and Chris, and @putneybells). Graeme in charge: Plain hunt on 7, Cambridge minor, called changes on 8 and several goes at Grandsire Triples.

Thank you @corneykate for the report and photo. I chose this one as the contrails have appropriately made the sign of the cross for the start of Holy Week!

No ringing now as it is #holyweek. Ringing resumes #eastersunday 🐣#allsaintschurchkingston #kingstonuponthames #palmsunday #holyweek2022 #bellringing #kingstonbellringers #easter

Welcome back David and Judith to the tower and pra

Welcome back David and Judith to the tower and practice night! David just celebrated his 90th birthday last month! 🥳 Many happy returns!

Graeme in charge tonight with a depleted band due to Covid, but it sounds like a very good practice. Thanks Gavin @mistersplashy for the report and pics.

Judith, David, Graeme, Dwenna, Jackie and Gavin rang Grandsire Doubles; our learners Chris and Junnan rang rounds on six; Gavin rang plain hunt on 5 from bell 4 (well done on trying it inside 👍🏻) and Jackie said the instruction was phenomenal this evening so we need more Graeme-run practice nights, and Graeme should take up teaching too! #bellringing #kingstonbellringers #kingstonuponthames #allsaintschurchkingston

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