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.

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…

Those of you who are avid readers of the Parish Magazine may remember that last September I wrote about the Ringing World National Youth Contest which took place in Worcester.  As with everything else last year the contest was disrupted

It is the custom at most churches not to ring bells during Holy Week and for many years we have followed this tradition. However, this year the ringers feel that hearing the bells will help to give people reassurance about coming out of the pandemic and the situation in

Staplehurst Bellringers Report March 2023 News from the Tower By the time you read this we will be well into Lent and spring will (hopefully) be just around the corner. As nature begins to awake from its winter sleep, so do things begin to be a little more active amongst our ringers. Firstly, on Saturday…

Staplehurst Bellringers Report July 2024 News from the Tower June was a busy month for our ringers.  It started on Saturday 1st June when, together with ringers from Frittenden and Marden, we had our annual ringing outing.  The venue this year was the Southend on Sea area of Essex where we rang at five churches…