KentLadies' Guild: Kent District News and Events
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Vice President: Freda Cannon
Secretary: Isabel Pearce : Tel 01732 761199(work) (E-mails are sent to Sue Fisher)
Ringing Master: Helen Webb
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Kent District evening meeting & supper
Last Updated on Thursday, 17 June 2010 18:27 Written by Sue Sunday, 02 May 2010 10:31
SATURDAY 17TH JULY 2010
TUNSTALL - St John the Baptist (Q896619)
8 bells - 10-1-8 (GF) (WC) Post code: ME9 8DU Ringing 5.30 to 6.30pm
Followed by supper:
The Fruiterers, Rodmersham Green at 7pm
Names for supper by 6 pm on MONDAY 12TH - by phone to Isabel 01732 761199 or email to Sue
(no name = no supper)
Leighton Buzzard
Written by Administrator Wednesday, 11 March 2009 19:12
The picture above shows the Kent District Secretary ringing the tenor at Leighton Buzzard on our weekend outing in October 2008. We very much enjoyed the lovely 12 bells there.
Walter Dobbie
Written by Administrator Wednesday, 11 March 2009 19:10
At Sevenoaks on the 26th September 2004 a quarter peal of Grandsire Triples was rung by members of the Ladies Guild Kent Branch in memory of our very dear friend Walter Dobbie, with our love and best wishes to Sheila.1 Janet Raynor
2 Sue Fisher (c)
3 Doris Colgate
4 Mary Andrews
5 Emma Jarvis
6 Freda Cannon
7 Isabel Pearce
8 Lesley Barclay
I particularly wanted to call this quarter peal in memory of Walter, as he gave me the calling some years ago, to make a change from my usual effort. I can still hear his soft, Kent voice saying "Out with a single, twice before, single at middle, in with a single and a plain lead".
Walter also played a large part in teaching me to ring methods on handbells and had an amazing knack of using his elbows to indicate that one should be ringing one's bell and was late. He would also sing the next change in his deep, resonant voice in an attempt to keep the touch going.
Many of us have happy memories of sitting in hotel bedrooms, or standing in car parks, on Kent Branch ringing weekends, ringing Walter's bells, cast by his own skilled hands. I count myself extremely fortunate to have known him and for the fact that I seem to have inherited his elbows!!
I hope I can use his legacy well.