Daniel's first ringing lesson

Daniel (aged 7) had his first pulls on the 2nd on Thursday and a further go on the treble yesterday and mastered the tying of the rope knot.

Tripadvisor recommendation

I was just looking at a Tripadvsor review of Taylard House B&B below and saw this comment about our bell ringing on a Sunday morning ...... what a nice lady!

Welcome to Florence Elizabeth Hardy

We are pleased to announce the arrival of Amanda and Andrew's new baby girl, Florence,
on Saturday 19th January 2013 and a quarter peal was rung to celebrate the occasion. Mother and baby are both doing well.

Florence Elizabeth Hardy (9lbs)

Ely Diocesan Association

Gamlingay, Cambs.

St Mary the Virgin

Sunday, 27 January 2013 (16cwt)

1260 Grandsire Doubles

1 Becky Loudon

2 Diana Mackley

3 John A Boocock

4 Phil Loudon

5 Iain Hayden (C)

6 Andrew B Smith

Rung for Evensong and to celebrate the birth of Florence Elizabeth

Hardy on Sat. 19th January 2013.

First quarter-peal of Grandsire: 4

Gamlingay 2013 Wedding Ringing

Gamlingay Wedding Ringing times 2013 (subject to confirmation).

Date                                 Ringing times
  6 April                            3.00 - 3.30pm
15 June                            1.30 - 2.00pm
  6 July                             1.30 - 2.00pm
  3 August                         1.30 - 2.00pm

Gamlingay bells adjusted oddstruckness

After several hours work with shims and twiddle pins the following results were obtained.

Gamlingay bells oddstruckness measurement

The above oddstruckness measurements were made by Tom Ridgman last night using his electronic oddstruckness meter. The measurements are in milliseconds. A positive figure indicates the bell is slow at handstroke and a negative figure indicates the bell is quick at handstroke.
What is significant here is the difference between consecutive bells. Differences of 20ms are discernable to the ear.

First peal on Gamlingay bells since augmenting to 8 in 2001

Ely Diocesan Association

Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire

St Mary the Virgin

Saturday, 7 July 2012 in 3h06 (16)

5056 Plain Bob Major

Composed: John R Pritchard

1 Amanda Hardy

  2 Jane K A Hough

  3 J Richard Hough

4 Cass Boocock

  5 Andrew B Smith

   6 John A Boocock

   7 Richard C Smith

          8 Peter J Waterfield (C)

First peal - 1 & 5.

First on 8 - 4.

100th peal - 7.

First peal on the bells since restoration and augmentation to 8.

To mark the arrival of The Olympic Flame in the City of Cambridge
later today.

Peal Band Photograph  Clockwise from front right in order of ringing.