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AGM Meeting Review
Our AGM on Saturday 28th January at St George Minster, Doncaster was well attended with 28 members at the meeting. Before the AGM we rang call changes, Plain Hunt Triples and Major, PB Major, Grandsire Triples and Stedman Triples. George our Webmaster recorded the ringing and you can listen or download it from the audio page on the Doncaster Ringers website. The Revd Paul Shackerley took the bell ringers service at the Minster, he also presided over our AGM meeting, where the activities of the coming year were discussed. Many thanks to Sarah Hackett for organising such a delicious tea, which was enjoyed by all. Evening ringing took place at Arksey and although only 10 ringers were present, it was a pleasant evening with some good striking. Thanks to Ted for organising all the ringing so well.
Audio Page
A new 'Audio' page has been added to the website where you can listen to some digital stereo audio recordings of the bells being rung at The Minster Church of St George during the A.G.M. meeting on Saturday 28 January 2012. The recordings were made by George Jopling.
The Ringing World Information
The Ringing World is pleased to announce the availability of BellBoard, the first step in the development of the Ringing World’s new online resource.
BellBoard has been created by Richard Smith from Cambridge, on behalf of the Ringing World. Richard is a highly skilled and experienced programmer running his own IT company. Although such a facility has been under discussion for some time at The Ringing World, work started on the initial version of BellBoard three days ago, triggered by the ongoing loss of the Campanophile website. In this three day period, the complete records of peals.co.uk and all Campanophile data from August 2011 and prior have been made available for any user to search for free on BellBoard. Further, the site has been set up for individuals to register as a user, post peals and quarters for public viewing and submit these details to the Ringing World.
The Ringing World currently receives the majority of peal and quarter peal submissions from Campanophile. In the short term, the loss of this facility impacts our business and escalates the risk that our peal and quarter publications will be incomplete or out of date. We hope that the Campanophile service will be restored and have made every effort to connect with and support the Campanophile team to assist at this time, but now believe that the Ringing World must take action. We know that the ability to share, store and view information instantly is essential for many ringers today and we consider that it is now time for the Ringing World to use its skills and resources to ensure that this will remain possible.
Although this initial offering acts primarily to mitigate the risks arising from the difficulties faced by Campanophile, our vision for the website extends far beyond its current form. The Ringing World has the engaged the very best skills and has the resources and ambition to develop and maintain a facility which will serve the ringing community for many years to come.
You can access BellBoard on www.bb.ringingworld.co.uk. As you can imagine, this has been developed very quickly and we hope that you will understand that this is very much the first release which we will continue to develop in the coming weeks and months.
Nigel Herriott
Chairmain, The Ringing World
Quarter Peal in Memory of Roy Clarke
Doncaster and District Society
Arksey, Doncaster (9cwt)
Saturday 14 January 2012
1264 Plain Bob Major
1. Mary Guy
2. Richard Davis
3. Anne Walker
4. Marian Thomas
5. Ted Steele
6. Jim Hirst
7. Phillip Walker (C)
8. Michael Sheeran
Quarter Peal in Memory of Roy Clarke
Doncaster and District
Bawtry, South Yorkshire
St Nicholas
Saturday 31 December 2011 in 46 minutes (14 cwt)
1320 Plain Bob Minor
1. Judith Jopling
2. Kate Giddens C
3. Annabelle Prebble
4. Patricia Jopling
5. Ron Giddens
6. Ted Steele
Rung half muffled in fond memory of Roy Clarke who played an important part in the ringing lives of all who took part.