As we begin to catch up with ourselves, we offer a handbell roundup for September 2014:

Some milestones this month:

• Kath Baldwin celebrates 63 years of peal ringing
• Graham John reaches 400 handbell peals on 12 bells.
• Alan Potts celebrate 70 years of peal ringing (by a never-too-late return to...

The latter part of the summer passed by so quickly, we suddenly realised it was October already, and we hadn't done a roundup since July! 

Apologies for the delay in service, and here is our handbell roundup for August 2014. 

Not many milestones this month, except for Ian Redway, who...

Despite the holiday season there was plenty of handbell-ringing activity in July.

Firsts and other milestones:

1st peal of S Major in hand, Jonathan Franklin and Stephen Beckingham (who also called it).

1st quarter in hand, Judith Lainé.

1st peal in hand, Patrick Deakin.

​1st quarter...

Here is the handbell roundup for June 2014, as compiled from records published on BellBoard.  As I sit writing this, I am in Croatia, and a long way from any handbell ringing, so it is great to see how productive everyone else has been......

Let's start with some milestones:

• Maureen...

As usual this is based on data from BellBoard.

Personal milestones:

• 400th handbell peal for Clive Smith
• 250th handbell peal for David Kemp
• 100th handbell peal for Anthony Mann
• John Croft has completed the Surprise Royal alphabet for handbell peals

Some conducting firsts:

• First quarter of major as conductor in hand by...

I'm sorry to say that we didn't do any ringing at 1 Albany Quadrant in April. But everyone else has been forging ahead, and producing a crop of noteworthy performances.

Personal milestones:

• Phillip George's 100th handbell quarter
• Ian Taylor's 600th handbell peal, which was also Frank Morton's 500th peal of major in...

Here is a summary of handbell ringing activity for March 2014, based on performances published on Bell Board. The most notable thing this month was how much handbell ringing was going on in March!  Excellent stuff - more of the same please.   We also noticed in the past couple...

Here is a summary of handbell ringing activity for February 2014, based on performances published on Bell Board.  In doing the roundup I look at all lengths, since for any growing handbell band, peals only tell a small part of the story.

First some significant milestones.....

• John Jelley has...

Here is a quick roundup of the handbell highlights in January 2014.  My source for these is The Ringing World's Bell Board.  I'll be developing this as the year goes on, so suggestions and comments are very welcome, and if you have a performance you would like to see...