SALISBURY DIOCESAN GUILD OF RINGERS NEWSLETTER Autumn 2017 Number 151 YPRES BELLS IN DORSET In this issue: From the 1 President Great War 1 Guild Striking 4 Competitions Open Day 5 Dean of 5 Salisbury Engagement 6 with Public Young Ringers 8 Education 11 Safeguarding 13 Calne News 15 Devizes News 16 Dorchester 18 News East Dorset Picture: Paul Tyson 19 News Marlborough 21 News Summer fun Mere News 22 Salisbury 22 News for Young West Dorset 23 News Odd bells out 24 Ringers Obituaries 25 Calendar 28 ... a young ringer on his box! Deadline for A Striking the next issue: 1 February success for 2018 Corsley
[email protected] (and Wimborne too!) FACE TO FACE NEWSLETTER – AUTUMN 2017 maintenance, but, worse still, what if From the President someone is taken ill, up the tower, requiring specialist evacuation. Narrow As I look into my garden the leaves, spiral stairways make the use of most of which are glorious in their stretchers impossible so the only option autumn colours, I can hardly believe is to take them through the floor. We another year is coming to an end. By the need to engage more with the church by time you receive this edition of the Face having representation on the PCC to put to Face we will be into November and forward our concerns and get the ringers Quarter peal week with Christmas and a voice heard outside the ringing room. New Year hard on its heels. We‟ve been “sitting in our Ivory towers for too long”!! Most members of the I have not been able to attend as many public have no knowledge of what meeting and practices this year as I had happens in the ringing room, in fact hoped to but I have managed to attend many people still believe a recording of several services of rededication within bells is played.