Ringing Links…

Here are some useful web links about bellringing…

Nationally:

• Central Council of Church Bell Ringers – for the definitive view on everything to do with change ringing.
• The Ringing World – the bellringers’ own newspaper.
• Campanophile website – a record of Peals and Quarter Peals rung throughout UK (and the world).

Internationally:

• The Australia and New Zealand Association of Bellringers site has some useful general information about ringing, as well as a lot about ringing down under. It includes a Towers Directory with ringing times and contact information.
• There is also a North American Guild of Change Ringers and their website offers some useful information for any ringers crossing the Atlantic.

Local (to Thornbury):

• The Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association of Church Bell Ringers:
  • Thornbury is a member of the Bristol Rural Branch. 
  • The Gloucester Branch also have a web site.
• The University of Bristol Society of Change Ringers – our local university. 

Bell Founders:

• The Whitechapel Bell Foundry – who rehung the bells and recast the Treble in 1996
• Taylors of Loughbororough, the other bellfounders in the UK, also have a web site.

Other Interesting Sites

• Roger Bailey’s site has extensive information and lots of links including links to other tower sites.
• Don Morrison has a comprehensive and well-indexed collection of quarter peal compositions.
• For a personal view of ringing, and some useful links, see Zena Woodley’s on-line article “Summoned by Bells“.  In short, it explains why she took up ringing, and why it becomes an obsession with so many of us.