Bellringing Recruitment

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Tower Captain: Jeff Cousins 020 8394 0572

Do you have some spare time you would like to fill up with a new experience? Have you recently retired or are you about to retire? Have you finished your exams at school and are looking for a new challenge? Perhaps you are housewife who would like to get out a bit more, meet some new people and try something different.

Why not give bell-ringing a try? Bell-ringing has nothing to do with strength or brute force. It is an art which requires a combination of listening, seeing and physical co-ordination. You will, I can promise, get an enormous amount of satisfaction when you have first managed to pull and properly control a bell. The next step, when you start into the mysteries of "change ringing" requires a certain amount a certain amount of mental dexterity but that comes a little later.

Bell-ringing, as we know it, started in England in the middle of the 17th Century. To continue this long tradition we obviously have to look for and welcome new recruits when- ever and wherever we can. At St. Mary's, several who joined for the Millennium ringing have stayed to become very useful members of the band (that is what we call a team of ringers). Ringing is essentially a team business and as such, you will find it a very sociable activity.

So, if you want to make new friends, if you want to do something useful in the service of St Mary's and you would like to give it a try, why not make one of your New Year Resolutions to GIVE IT A GO.

Just come up to the belfry one Tuesday evening at 7.30pm or contact our Tower Captain.