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Issue 99 Oct/Nov 2007 Christ's Church Mandurah WAANZAB Sunday 9:20am-9:55am Tuesday 7pm-9pm Roger Lubbock 9537 3004 Swan Bells Perth [email protected] Saturday St Hilda's Chapel 12noon-1pm General Ringing Mary Townsend 9389 1154 Sunday [email protected] 12noon-1pm General Ringing Helen Silver 9381 4319 Monday [email protected] 12noon-1pm General Ringing Tuesday Branch Practice 12noon-1pm General Ringing Christ’s Church Mandurah Thursday 3rd November 12noon-1pm Quarter Peal attempt 4 – 7pm bring and share Dinner (usually arranged during the previous weekend) Holy Trinity York Richard Offen 0423 473 697 Eleanor Weeks 9641 2384 [email protected] [email protected] Vicki Hodgkin 0409 966 990 Sally Boyle 9641 4021 [email protected] [email protected] St George's Cathedral Rockingham Civic Centre Sunday 9:00 – 9:45am Wednesday 6:00 – 8:00pm Monday 6:30pm-8:30pm Josclyn Sloan 9454 6770 (Not 15/10, 19/11, 10/12) [email protected] Ron Chapman 9526 0271 [email protected] Christ Church WAANZAB Contacts: Ringing Master Claremont Sunday 9:15am-10am Tony Murry-Feist 9256 4498 Wednesday 5:30pm-8pm [email protected] Mary Townsend 9389 1154 Secretary [email protected] Callum Crofton 9328 3462 [email protected] Coordinatior Sue McCarte 9337 8369 [email protected] Well it’s that time of the month, and if The five farthings owed to St. anyone has been following the Martin's have been paid. numbers they will have seen that this A lady wrote to us from the Isle of is the 99th edition which makes next Wight, England letting us know she month the big one yes that’s right had really enjoyed her visit to the 100 , you can nearly hear the bells tower. She enclosed five farthings in and whistles going off (of course no her letter to pay back the bells of St. pun intended). Martin's. "You owe me five farthings This month out meet and greet said the bells of St. Martin's" She person is Jos Sloan, I found it really also enclosed some interesting very interesting reading her story information on the history of the and I’m sure you will too. I do hope farthing. The farthing was a coin of you enjoy this Look Too and I’ll see the realm for 682 years and was you at the end. Sue worth ¼ of an old English penny. There were 970 farthings to 1 pound. I took this off an email that Introduced in 1279, the farthing was came through during the week, last minted in 1956 and withdrawn I’m sure most of you would from circulation in 1961. have received it but just incase From the Friends of the Swan Bells I thought I should put it in. Oct news letter This is a notification to let you CHRIST CHURCH, CLAREMONT know that a file has been Once again, it's been a very quiet uploaded to the Files area of the month at Claremont with very little to St Martin Society Perth group. report. There haven't even been any quarter peals rung. The wedding File : /Committee Minutes/St season has well and truly begun with Martins Minutes 111007.doc bells rung for eight weddings in Uploaded by : r_offen1 October and requested for ten <[email protected] > weddings in November. We were Description : going to try a new eating place this month - Viet Nosh in Nedlands - but You can access this file at the the prospect of 20+ people turning URL: up at 8pm was just too much for the http://groups.yahoo.com/group restaurant so we returned to faithful Hans! We are continuing to /StMartinSocietyPerth/files/Com experiment at practices with mittee%20Minutes/St%20Marti variations on methods (Clifford's ns%20Minutes%20111007.doc Pleasure etc.) which everyone is enjoying - and finding not as difficult To learn more about file sharing as initially expected. The October for your group, please visit: branch practice was held at Christ http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ Church and was very well attended groups/files with 20 ringers turning up. Thank you So now you have it, I don’t to all those who were able to support really understand it all but I the morning ringing. hope you do. Mary Townsend Meet and Greet Jos Sloan tower. I went into the cathedral and asked the guide about what was in the tower and what rooms it needed. He had no idea but told me that as it was a Tuesday, if I came back at 4pm there would be a bellringer. I hadn’t thought such people existed, as I had only ever heard the London Court and Carillon City bells and assumed that most bells were electronically rung. It is a rather strange coincidence that I came back to St George’s at 4pm I was born in Mullewa, one of only a and met Laura – need I say more! handful of places in Western Laura took me up to the belfry and Australia to have 7 bells showed me the bells, which were all (unfortunately not of the change in their “Up” position (which always ringing type though). When I was 18 looks so impressive) She gave me a months old, we moved to Dowerin. number of books on bell towers, Due to the teacher’s accommodation explained about the new bell tower in the town being too small for a for the bells from St Martin-in-the- growing family, we moved to a larger Fields and told me that I could stay house on a farm about 25kms from for practice if I liked. Who knew that town. It was here that we lived for 17 the one bell tower I picked in the city years. I went to boarding school in for information, had strong links with Northam for years 11 and 12. In this new tower that was to be built! I 1998, I came to Perth to live with my was still a bit unsure but decided to grandparents so that I could study stay for the practice. For someone Building Design and Drafting at who had never heard change ringing TAFE. before I was captivated with the Around the beginning of 1999, unique patterns of sound that the advertising appeared of different bells made. I had my first go at elevations of a building designed to ringing a week later in February of house some bells that had come 1999 and have been ringing ever from England. My lecturer at TAFE since. thought it would form a good basis In the December of 1999, to try and for an assignment in sketching and educate the public about the Swan designing spaces. We were Bells and tower, three of the old bells encouraged to put all sorts of spaces from St Martin’s were put on display into our designs from art galleries to at three shopping centres around cafés. I was curious as to what the Perth. It was at Garden City, where I bell parts or chambers of the tower first saw the bells and it was would need to be. definitely love at first sight. Six As I was waiting at the bus stop in months later they were put into the front of St George’s Cathedral, I tower and not long after that I was noticed that the cathedral had a bell lucky enough to have a ring on them at the tryout and then for the opening Deputy Chair. With ringers in these of the tower. I love the sound and two positions we can be confident challenge of change ringing on 16. I that we will be well represented! know it a long way off, but one day I Congratulations to Ian and Richard. would like to ring a peal on the 16 at Swan. I currently work in Cannington in a small building design office. I recently started selling Nutrimetics which I really enjoy as it is allowing me to meet all sorts of new people. When I’m not ringing, I enjoy swimming, reading and computers. I am a VERY tragic Formula One racing fan – go Maclaren! One day I hope to get to a live race. I am the proud owner of a labrador called Nara who keeps me my toes (or should I say – constantly sweeps me off them!). One of my favorite places is a bush reserve near where I used to live in Dowerin. It is the one place Richard Offen and Ian McLeod. I missed most while overseas and if I need to escape the city, this is where Ringers’ Evensong I like heading for an afternoon of This is an annual service held on quiet contemplation. Sunday 11 th November at St George’s Cathedral. It starts with I’m so excited about the restoration open ringing from 4-5pm (all of St George’s Cathedral nearly standards are welcome) with the being completed. On Tuesday we service starting at 5pm. This is a discovered our new carpet had gone wonderful chance for ringers of into the ringing chamber. Finally it different church’s to get together for means there is an end in sight! I look one service. The service uses some forward to seeing everyone up there traditional 'ringers' hymns' and is at some stage. usually themed around ringing in one Jos way or another, Richard Offen will be Swan Bells Foundation preaching and the service will be Some of you may have heard that followed by refreshments.