St Peters Middle Chamber

Kitty ( on right ) has left us for greener fields She will be missed ....Look two

Photos

Bendigo Country Practice

Five of us attended the Country Practice, at Bendigo, yesterday. Monica Martin was presented with an award marking 50 years of Bell-Ringing.

Helen Pettit has circulated an email address of a Ringing Practice Toolkit, with lots of ideas for practice nights. Take a look, and let me know if there are any parts of this you'd like to include on Wednesday nights.

http://www.cccbr.org.uk/edc/rpt.php

Hand Bell Practice Town Hall

Can you pick the method being rung ?

Blast from the past.

A visitor today, at St Peter's service ring, was Warne Wilson.
Warne a stalwart at St Peter's during the 60's and 70's, was visiting from Queensland.
It was great to see him, an old friend; Alex Herrman, from Warrnambool took the opportunity to come up for the ring.
The Tower was full, the ringing patchy, but a good time.

Ballarat Heritage Weekend 2008

he Town Hall Bellringers have received permission to conduct a peal attempt to help celebrate the 2008 Ballarat Heritage Weekend on Saturday 10^th and Sunday 11^th May 2008.
The peal itself will take approximately 3 hours and 15 minutes on Saturday 10th of May and will be conducted by 8 of Australia's leading ringers from Sydney and Melbourne. This will be followed by general ringing with the Ballarat ringers later in the afternoon. Ringing time needed would be from 10.30 am. to 4 pm.

Thanks to all involved this is going to be a wonderful day

What a turn out

This weeks bell tower was full yet again thanks ro all who could make it

Alfred Memorial Bells

The Ballarat Town Hall bells are the Alfred Memorial Bells. Have you ever wondered why? Take a look at this web site to find out;



http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~cathyd/history/prince.html .

Renovations

The past few weeks have seen much interior decorating in the tower, mostly due to Richard's hard work. The latest installment being very chi-chi wooden blinds. Now we won't have any excuse to wear our sunnies, except for a hang-over that is. The ringing chamber begins to look like a desirable Carlton town house. All we need now is a favourable valuation and it's on the market next week.

Town Hall Bells News of the week

Walked past the Town Hall this morning on my way to library, there was a large piece of spaghetti coming out of the ringing chamber's window and connected to a large truck making horrible sucking noises, so I guess that would mean the vacuuming of the tower is in progress today. Hooray.

cheers
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Ringing for 2008

Town Hall ringing commences this Friday, Feb. 1, 1-1.45 pm.
Every Friday unless cancelled for the day.
Also every second Sunday of the month, 2-4 pm.

St. Peter's practice is Wednesday, 7.30- 8.30 pm. and Service ringing
Sunday, 9.30- 10 am.

Hope to see you all.