I hope all our readers are enjoying the series of articles about bellringing by Rebecca Steele. Her offering this month focuses on the national youth ringing competition. However, there is still much going on in our own tower.

Twenty years ago, on 2nd June 2002, the bells of All Saints’ church Staplehurst, rang a quarter peal in celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee. This was in celebration of 50 years since the Queen’s accession to the throne.

Staplehurst Bellringers Report February 2023 News from the Tower As usual, January was a rather quiet month for the Staplehurst ringers following the busy Christmas and New Year schedule, and February looks set to be the same. We have no visiting bands of ringers expected during the month, so we will only be ringing on…

Staplehurst Bellringers Report May 2021 It is now more than a year since we had to cease ringing due to the Coronavirus pandemic and contact with each other has been limited to our weekly Zoom meetings or occasionally passing each other in the street. Various members of the band have, however, managed to chime three…

Staplehurst Bellringers Report March 2024 News from the Tower In years gone by if you wanted to learn to ring you would simply go along to your local church and one of the locals would teach you the basics and that was it. The trouble was that the person who taught you wasn’t always that…

Staplehurst Bellringers Report July 2021 Tuesday 18th May was a wonderful day for the Staplehurst Bellringers, and we hope, for the whole village. After 15 months of enforced silence due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the bells rang out once more for our practice not, albeit with only six ringers and for only 45 minutes. Then…