Dear all, thank you to those who have already paid their subscriptions for 2025. For those that haven’t yet, subs are £10 for adults and £5 for students.
The easiest way for most people to pay is to make an online payment as follows:
Account Name: Peterborough Branch of Bellringers (name may be truncated due to character limitation by your Bank)
Sort Code: 77 72 37
Account #: 11096468
Any queries please get in touch with the Treasurer, Steve Brown mailto:treasurer@peterborough.pdg.org.uk
3:30pm Waterside Garden Centre, just off the A15 at King St, Baston PE6 9NY
I usually give a donation to each tower, so I would appreciate a rope fee of £1.50 per tower, or £4 for all towers, to cover this, given to me on the day, please?
Ringers are welcome to join us at any or all of the Towers, even if they cannot come to the Cream Tea.
Also families and friends are welcome to join in the Cream Tea, whether coming to the Towers or not; we will be pleased to see everyone. It is a good opportunity to get to know other better, as chatting is not always possible inside towers. Many people come for the company, and to catch up with friends’ news since last year!! Not all of the conversations are about bell ringing, so please feel free to join us.
Details of the Cream Tea Menu choices below. Please let me have your choices – food and drink – and any allergies, by Thursday 19th September, so I can make a timely order for The Waterside Garden Centre.
I look forward to receiving your tea order and to seeing you, at some point, on the afternoon of Sunday 29th September 2024, if not before.
Please forward to anyone else who would like to come and has not seen an invite anywhere – sorry I cannot see who is on Petbells.
Please email me if there is anything I have missed and/or anything you need to know.
The cream teas are £7.99 for one or £12 for two. They consist of a coffee or pot of tea and a fruit scone with jam (with a choice of raspberry or strawberry jam ) and clotted cream. If anyone would rather a cheese scone please say, as that is fine.
3:30pm Waterside Garden Centre, just off the A15 at King St, Baston PE6 9NY
I usually give a donation to each tower, so I would appreciate a rope fee of £1.50 per tower, or £4 for all towers, to cover this, given to me on the day, please?
Ringers are welcome to join us at any or all of the Towers, even if they cannot come to the Cream Tea.
Also families and friends are welcome to join in the Cream Tea, whether coming to the Towers or not; we will be pleased to see everyone. It is a good opportunity to get to know other better, as chatting is not always possible inside towers. Many people come for the company, and to catch up with friends’ news since last year!! Not all of the conversations are about bell ringing, so please feel free to join us.
Details of the Cream Tea Menu choices below. Please let me have your choices – food and drink – and any allergies, by Thursday 19th September, so I can make a timely order for The Waterside Garden Centre.
I look forward to receiving your tea order and to seeing you, at some point, on the afternoon of Sunday 29th September 2024, if not before.
Please forward to anyone else who would like to come and has not seen an invite anywhere – sorry I cannot see who is on Petbells.
Please email me if there is anything I have missed and/or anything you need to know.
The cream teas are £7.99 for one or £12 for two. They consist of a coffee or pot of tea and a fruit scone with jam (with a choice of raspberry or strawberry jam ) and clotted cream. If anyone would rather a cheese scone please say, as that is fine.
3:30pm Waterside Garden Centre, just off the A15 at King St, Baston PE6 9NY
I usually give a donation to each tower, so I would appreciate a rope fee of £1.50 per tower, or £4 for all towers, to cover this, please.
Ringers are welcome to join us at any or all of the Towers, even if they cannot come to the Cream Tea.
Also families and friends are welcome to join in the Cream Tea, whether coming to the Towers or not; we will be pleased to see everyone. It is a good opportunity to get to know others better, as chatting is not always possible inside towers. Many people come for the company, and to catch up with friends’ news since last year!! Not all of the conversations are about bell ringing, so please feel free to join us.
Details of the Cream Tea Menu choices below. Please let me have your choices – food and drink – and any allergies, by Thursday 19th September, so I can make a timely order for The Waterside Garden Centre.
I look forward to receiving your tea order and to seeing you, at some point, on the afternoon of Sunday 29th September 2024, if not before.
Please email me if there is anything I have missed and/or anything you need to know.
The cream teas are £7.99 for one or £12 for two. They consist of a coffee or pot of tea and a fruit scone with jam (I asked for raspberry not strawberry jam ) and clotted cream. If anyone would rather a cheese scone please say, as that is fine.
Dear all, a reminder that the next major event in the Guild Centenary calendar is the day out at Stanwick Lakes next Saturday, 13 July. This will be an interesting day, with lots to do in addition to bell ringing, so I hope you will be able to join the Guild. The detailed information about the event is on a previous post
I am still short of volunteers to join the Branch for our slot on the mini ring from 2.30-3.30pm, Please let me know if you are available. https://petbells.org.uk/contact/chairman/
Dear all, the next major event in the Guild Centenary calendar is the day out at Stanwick Lakes on Saturday 13 July. This will be an interesting day, with lots to do in addition to bell ringing, so I hope you will be able to join the Guild. The detailed information about the event is below.
As you will see from the schedule, Peterborough Branch has a slot to ring from 2.30-3.30pm, and I am asking for volunteers to come to join us to ring. Please let me know if you are available. https://petbells.org.uk/contact/chairman/
Objectives
This is going to be a superb public relations exercise where we can all experience something slightly different in the art of bellringing, but share our passion with members of the public. It takes place on what is usually one of the busiest weekends of the year at Stanwick Lakes. (https://stanwicklakes.org.uk/)
Overview
We will have a prominent location, where we will set up the Wombell and the Maplestead Mini Ring. In addition to this we hope to have handbells and bellplates for making a noise on. There will be some display materials, merchandise for sale, quizzes, and craft activities, so plenty to attract visitors.
Branches have been assigned a time slot for manning the site and using the equipment but as these are all open ringing sessions, feel free to come at any time to join in. As necessary, a group of confident users will come to ring for a short time on the Mini Ring each hour.
There is plenty to do at Stanwick Lakes – play areas, an assault course, a visitor centre with a café and heritage centre, a myriad of paths for walks – making it an opportunity for a great family day out.
Parking rates are currently £3.40 for up to 2 hours, £4.90 for up to 4 hours and £6.40 for the whole day per vehicle, so people may want to arrange to share lifts. For anyone planning to come for two separate time periods, we can organise a discount.
A team of members is being arranged for the assembly and dismantling of the equipment – if you are willing and able to help with this, please contact centenray@pdg.org.uk
Dear all, Diana has now made the arrangements for this popular event. Please see below:
12:30 -1:15pm Great Casterton PE9 4AN Bells: 6 Tenor: 5-1-18 in A♭ Ground Floor(GF) no toilet
1:30 – 2:15pm Ryhall PE9 4HR Bells: 6 Tenor: 11-1-5 in F toilet available
2:30 – 3:15pm Greatford PE9 4PX Bells: 6 Tenor 6–1–4 in B♭ Ground Floor (GF) no toilet?
3:30pm Waterside Garden Centre just off the A15 ie King St, Baston PE6 9NY
Waterside Garden Centre has just reopened after severe flooding; I have personally checked out their fruit scones and confirmed they are really yummy!! I am just waiting for them to update the menu, which I think only affects the full Afternoon Tea, as the fruit/cherry/Cheese scones are on their menu, but I will circulate that as soon as I have it.
I did have jam (choice of raspberry or strawberry) and clotted cream on my scone, which are extra at present and drinks separate, but as they have reopened earlier than the expected July, the online menus have not yet been updated.
Anyway the ringing details are confirmed, and I will provide more news as soon as I have some.
Dear all, the Guild AGM is next Saturday (details below) and the Guild would like to take the opportunity to take photos of members to form part of a visual record of the Guild in its centenary year.
So dig out your centenary clothing if you have got some, book your teas with Helen (secretary@pdg.org.uk) by Wednesday, and turn up with smiles on your faces. The forecast looks good so hopefully we can get some great group shots.
AGM details
Open Ringing at Harlestone at 2 pm and Pitsford at 3 pm.
Ringing at Moulton at 4 pm, for the service at 4:30 pm.
This will be followed by tea in the church hall and the AGM at 5:45 pm. There will be evening ringing afterwards.
Dear all, at the AGM in January, it was suggested that we should bring together young ringers across the branch. A successful first event was held in February and 5 young ringers plus two learners joined us at St Mary’s in Peterborough on a Sunday afternoon. It was a good opportunity for these ringers to get to know one another both through ringing and through chatting. Thank you to the teachers and ringing parents for supporting it. As always with a ringing event there was cake.
A second event is planned for Sunday 21 April, 4pm at Nassington, and we expect it to then continue every 6 weeks or so.
Peterborough Branch 