Thursday 30 July 2009

What Next

I understand John is already thinking about next year - it'll be a tough outing to beat!

Seriously I certainly had a great day out - my personal thanks to everyone who came and made it so much fun

Regards,

Phil.

(and Ann & Becky!)

And Finally....




St Peter and St Pauls, Weedon Bec.
The Church had a more modern fell although it dates back to the 1800's. Incidentally the Parish share here was £12,603 - If I were the guys at Nether Heyford I'd demand a recount!
The ringing room was on the ground floor and there were 8 bells here.







Our final efforts included:
Rounds & Call Changes
Grandsire Triples
Rounds & Call Changes
Rounds
Plain Bob Major
Grandsire Triples

St Mary's Staverton















St Mary's Staverton. A lovely village, lovely Church and great bells (all 6 of them)! (Well John and I liked the bells - I think everyone else did too - you can leave your own comments!)






Here we rang

Rounds & Call Changes
Grandsire Doubles
Bob Doubles
Rounds
Stedman
Bob Doubles
and more Rounds & Call Changes



More All Saints Braunstone

The ringing room was very well furnished here - even the boxes were carpeted!

We tried to do the surroundings justice by ringing:

Bob Doubles
Rounds & Call Changes
Stedman Doubles
Bob Doubles
Rounds
Rounds & Call Changes
Grandsire Doubles

Then we were off again.....

Sunday 26 July 2009

All Sants, Braunstone




After lunch we hurried down the road to All Saints.




Although the Church had a more modern feel than some we visited it clearly has a long history


The village of Braunston lies between the towns of Rugby and Daventry on the Warwickshire-Northamptonshire border. It is an important location on the Inland Waterways Network, the meeting point of the Grand Union and Oxford Canals.


Although the church had a more modern feel tha some we visited it clearly has a long history (and a tall spire!) ...



"Early records show that in 1552 there were 'iiij bells in ye steeple & a sanct' (sanctus) bell'. In 1672 these ancient bells were cast into a ring of six by Richard Keene of Woodstock. No 3 was recast in 1681, founder unknown. All six bells were again recast by John Briant of Hertford in 1811 and hung in an oak frame. So far as we know the bells and frame were transferred into the present building in 1849. The weight of the largest (tenor) bell is about 15 1/2 cwt, - ringers still describe bells in Imperial measure. For the younger generation this is 784 kg., just over three quarters of a tonne. In 1922 the bells were retuned and installed in the present all-metal frame and fittings by John Taylor of Loughborough."




Next Stop....Lunch!

Lunch time then ..and again John and Cass had us well organised. The Admiral Nelson at Braunstone (only a couple of minutes from our next church) had been booked and with the food pre-ordered everything should have been like clockwork. Unfortunately the pub weren't as well organised as John and Cass and we had to wait ages for our food....







Mind you it was nice when it finally got there!


The pub sits right on the canal so we were able to watch the narrow boats go by...



All Saints, Flore









Last stop before lunch was very close to the last church, this one was All Saints, Flore - the tower was up a narrow spiral staircase and through the small window had views over lovely rolling countryside.
Inside the Church was very nicely kept:







Becky enjoyed this Church as (with Ian's help) she called the changes!



Here we rang:
Bob Doubles
Rounds & Call Changes (By Becky!)
Cambridge
Rounds
Bob Doubles
Cambridge
Plain Hunt on 5
Bob Doubles
Bob course of Cambridge
...
.....and then Phil did a passable double back somersault on the stairs!





Saturday 25 July 2009

At Nether Heyford we rang...




The tower is at ground level again with 6 bells. We rang...

Rounds & Call Changes
Bob Doubles
Plain Hunt on 5
Grandsire Doubles
Rounds
Bob Doubles


Like this

St Peter & St Paul's, Nether Heyford







A beautiful little village with an equally pretty little church. I did notice that with an electoral roll of only 34 people the church met its Parish Share of £17,584 - seems like a great achievement to me!



Team Photo outside St Mary's Easton Neston


From Left to Right:
Cass, John, Diana, Sally, Ian, Richard, James Jez, Amanda, Andrew, Becky, Ann & Peter.

At Easton Neston we rang...

At Easton Neston on the eight bells we rang...

Rounds & Call Changes
Grandsire triples
Rounds (for Ann!)
Plain Hunt on 7
Rounds & Call Changes

St Mary's Easton Neston











Some views of the inside of St Mary's Easton Neston

Here We Go!


So we left Gamlingay at abot 8:30 to head for our first port of call, near Towcester... St. Mary's Easton Neaston.


St. Mary's is a beautiful little "estate" church hidden along a very quiet dead end road. The church is lovely inside with unusal pews and an interesting screen behind the altar carved with bats, spiders and mice. The tower is attached to the church with it's own door - quite a snug ringing room at ground level and 8 bells.

Ringers Outing - 2009

Just returned from our 2009 Summer Outing - fantastic day! Big thanks to John & Cass for organising such a great day ....here's some of the details:Just to remind ourselves this is where we normally ring, and at 7:30 this morning the sun was shining.......

and the tower was quiet....