A Ringers Notepad: Learning Collection

Return to  Homepage About the Collection 1 -  Bellringing - An Art and Craft 2 -  Towers - Keeping Bellringing Alive 3 -  Safety, Knots and Warm-Ups 4 -  Bells and How Your Bell Works 5 -  Practice Nights v Performance Ringing 6 -  Bell Handling and Control 7 -  Listening to Your Bell and Striking Well 8 -  Ringing in Rounds  and up/down in Peal 9 -  Call Changes 10 -  Leading (Trebling) and Tenoring 11 - Ropesight, Knowing Your Place and Hunting  12 - Plain Hunting 13 -  More Bells and Method Names 14 -  Dodging - Up and Down 15 -  Mexican Wave - Fun! 16 - More Fun Methods ... Bell Control 17 - Bob Doubles 18 -  Method Ringing 19 -  Bobs and Singles 20 -  St Simon's 21 -  St Nicholas (for Christmas) 22 -  Grandsire 23 -  Ringing Methods on 8 Bells and more 24 -  Teachers Resources  25 -  Peal Boards 26 - Handbells 27 -  Further Info and Association...

Back in 2015, we discovered church bellringing, and since then we have come across different learning resources that helped us learn this art.  Links to these are gathered in this blog because we needed to be mobile and able to access online memory joggers when ringing or visiting different towers.  This simple blog became a mobile notebook and much-needed memory jogger for traveling and practice nights! We are incredibly thankful to everyone who took the time to create the various online resources.  With this generous ringing community, this online collection became possible.  In this blog, the collection provides background, how-to's, videos, history, stories, etc., that we found helpful on our journey.   The Enjoyment of Bellringing The blog is a work in progress with new discoveries added when useful and as we discover more about the wonderful art of church bellringing.    Return to Homepage or Contents Page

Look around at these video clips to discover more about bellringing and the world of ringing church bells and later handbells. Return to  Homepage  or  Contents Page A Church Tour To See How Bells Work and Methods (3.5 mins) - St Helen's Discovering Bellringing - The Craft of Bellringing (Video with Chapters) Bellringing - It's Harder Than It Looks! Bellringing - More Than A Call To Prayer (BBC 2 min video): East London Ringers, UK. And we ring on handbells too, take a look at a band change ringing on handbells for a wedding ... Return to  Homepage  or  Contents Page #