New bell consultant reports

Over the last year, the bell consultants have completed many visits to towers. Six reports are now listed on the web site. Breadsall - General inspection Riddings - advice about these tubular bells Sandiacre - advice on remodelling the currently unringable bells Shirland - currently unringable with a fractured frame Whaley Bridge - advice for a proposed new ring of bells Youlgreave - new sound control

Photos

You may have noticed on the home page that there is a slide show of Assoication towers instead of the picture of Derby Cathedral that has been there since year dot. If you click on this photo, you will be taken to the album where you can see higher resolution photos, do exciting things with maps, comment on the photo, etc. Do I have a photo of your tower? No, well take one & email me it!

6 bell striking contest rules

Quick note to say that the rules of the 6 bell striking competitions have had two small updates. Simply, these changes clarify that there are really two competitions & removes the complicated rule as to how many teams a tower can enter. New rule: Towers may enter more than one team in each contest. Old rule: Towers may enter more than one team, but the number of different ringers in the teams should be greater than four times the number of teams. For example, to enter 2 teams at least 9 ringers should be involved; to enter 3 teams at least 13 ringers should be involved.