S&W District Outing

The South & West District Outing is on Saturday 5th November and is to towers in the Henley area. Full details are in the calendar entry. … [Read more...]

London Bell Ringers’ Advent Carol Service

This is being held at St John's Church, Waterloo Road, on Tuesday 29th November from 1930 with ringing before from 1830. … [Read more...]

MCA & LDG AGM – 23rd April

In 2022 the Association AGM is being hosted by South & West District at Uxbridge. The Inter-District Striking Competition for Roger Bailey trophy will be at 2.30 pm at St Andrew's Church. There will be general ringing at St Margaret’s after competition with the tea and meeting following. There will be more ringing at St Margaret's (if required) after the meeting. See the calendar for more detailed timings in due course. … [Read more...]

S&W District ADM

The South & West District Annual Meeting took place on Saturday 8th January, with twenty eight members joining via Zoom, and ten apologies received. The six members who had passed during year were fondly remembered, and thanks were given to Janet Baker (Pinner), who has retired from ringing, for her contributions to ringing and the District posts she has held.  Four new members were elected during the meeting and they are wished every success in bell ringing. The S&W District … [Read more...]

S&W District March Ringing Meeting

The S&W District Practice on Saturday 12th March is being held at St Mary's Church, Acton from 1130 to 1300. Someone will be at the main door of the church for the first half hour. Please call James White on 07931 195595 for access after that. After suffering from broken wheels in 2018, the bells were fitted with brand new wheels in the late summer of 2019 and ringing restarted in September of that year after a gap of 18 months. The pandemic gave rise to another 18 months of no ringing … [Read more...]

CCCBR Weekend – Sunday Service Ringing, 8th September

CCCBR Weekend - Sunday Service Ringing The Middlesex Association welcomes CCCBR members and others to London for the activities over the weekend of the CCCBR Meeting. In addition to the towers mentioned in the CCCBR publicity material, the following towers in and around Central London have confirmed that Sunday morning service ringing will take place, and visitors will be welcome.  Do please get in touch with the tower contacts (via the web forms on the tower pages reached by clicking … [Read more...]

MCA & LDG AGM, 27th April

Details of the timetable for the MCA & LDG AGM are now published and are as follows: 1400 to 1530 Striking Competition at Aldgate1500 to 1600 Service Ringing at Cree1600 to 1630 Service at Cree1630 to 1730 Tea at Cree1730 to 1900 Meeting at Cree1900 to 2000 General Ringing at Aldgate St Katharine Cree, Leadenhall Street, EC3A 2DXSt Botolph Without, Aldgate, EC3N 1AB … [Read more...]

Challenge Accepted!

Few people will be aware that the Rhodesia Plate Striking Competition Trophy (awarded to the team, other than the winners of the Association Plate, ringing the best 120 in the six bell striking competition at the Association Autumn General Meeting) was intended to be a challenge trophy, that is, at any point the holder can be challenged for it. On 1st October 2018 at St Clement Danes the first ever challenge competition took place between Stepney (St Dunstan), the winner in 2018, and challenger … [Read more...]

Middlesex Association Bellringing Summer School

The Middlesex Association Bellringing Summer School concluded yesterday (25th August 2017) after a week of activity centred on St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, where around twenty participants made extensive use of the new training bells, but also including sessions on handbells (tune ringing and change ringing), theory and history sessions, a maintenance/steeple keeping session at Fulham (All Saints), and a group visit to St Paul's Cathedral (see below). The whole event was organised in … [Read more...]

Middlesex Ringing for 800th Lord Mayor’s Show Day

              A band of twelve members of the Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild arranged by master Geraldine Forster successfully rang a special touch of 800 changes of Stedman Cinques at St Mary le Bow. Cheapside, on Saturday 14th November to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Lord Mayor's Show Day.  The details of the ringing and band were pre-prepared on a peal-type board, which added to the pressure of scoring on the day … [Read more...]