Learning to ring bigger bells has been an uphill battle as a female ringer. I learned to ring at University and after seven years could ring eight spliced but would

In general I have spent my life bucking the trend on what girls and women are expected to do (sports, hobbies, career, temperament, family – well lack if it). For

When my husband and I started conducting in our young tower, we agreed that I would conduct Plain Bob and he, Grandsire. We did not know at that stage that

Reading the accounts on the website so far, it certainly reminded me of an occasion when my husband and I visited a tower where we did not know the ringers

I learnt to ring at a twelve bell tower in the mid 70’s, where we had a predominantly female band and a female tower captain.  We were
quite organised, some

When I had been ringing a year or two, I remember going to visit a relatively heavy ring of bells and catching hold round the back. Afterwards, a ringer pulled