Advanced Practices at Hexham Abbey – 2009

 (All 7.30 – 9.00pm)

January 27th (10)  

February 24th 

March 31st

April 29th (weds)

 

May 27th  (weds)

June 30th

July 21st

August 26th (weds)

 

No September practice

October 28th (weds)

November 24th

December 30th (weds)

Advanced Practices at Hexham Abbey are either on Tuesdays or Wednesdays towards the end of each month. They are held on Wednesdays during school holidays when there is no choir practice, and this gives those with a Tuesday practice night an opportunity to come. Meet at 7.15 for a 7.30 start. The dates of the practices this year are shown above. I also send out notices by email a couple of weeks before each practice. If you would like to be added to this distribution list, or removed from it, please let me know.

Methods rung may include any of the standard 8 surprise major, singly and spliced, and Yorkshire, Cambridge, Lincolnshire, Superlative, Pudsey, London and Bristol Surprise Royal, and others by request. Methods rung vary considerably from one month to the next, and depend upon which ringers are attending the practice. A few practices throughout the year may be designated “major only”. Ringers regularly travel from Carlisle, Berwick, Durham, Sunderland and Gateshead to attend the practices. Approximately 60 ringers attended advanced practices in 2008, with an average monthly attendance of 17. Visiting ringers from outside the area are very welcome.

Next practice

The next Hexham practice is Tuesday, 21st July 2009. (Please note that this is the penultimate Tuesday, as we are away on our summer trip in the last week of July)

Special methods: Lincolnshire S Major, Bristol S Major, London S Royal, Yorkshire S Royal + other surprise major and royal by request.

If you are planning to come to an advanced practice please ring (01434 681561 or 07776395214) or email () me first to let me know you are coming, and which methods you would like to ring. This enables me to have an idea of numbers and you to find out if the practice is on and what we are likely to be ringing.

Next year – 2010: A provisional list of practices will appear here in November 2009

Advanced Practice Archive: I have started keeping a record of what is rung at the practices and how many attend, starting in January 2007.

Record of practices in 2009

January 27th 2009, Tuesday. Attendance 10. Methods: Bristol S Major * 2, Yorkshire S Royal * 2, Cassiobury S Major,

February 24th 2009, Tuesday: Attendance 16. Methods: Yorkhire S Major * 2, Yorkshire S Royal, Cambridge S Major, Cassiobury S Major, Superlative S Major, Bristol S Royal, Belfast S Major, Bristol S Major.

March 31st 2009, Tuesday: Attendance 19. Methods: Yorkshire S Major * 3, Bristol S Major * 2, Superlative S Major, Cassiobury S Major, Cambridge S Royal * 2

April 29th 2009, Wednesday: Attendance 21. Methods: Cambridge S Major * 2, Bristol S Major * 2, Belfast S Major, Cambridge S Royal * 2, Bristol S Royal * 2

May 27th 2009, Wednesday: Attendance: 12. Methods: Cambridge S Major, Cambridge S Royal, Yorkshire S Royal, Bristol S Major * 2, Yorkshire S Major, C&Yspliced S Major

June 30th 2009, Tuesday: Attendance: 12. Methods: Lincolnshire S Major * 2, Yorkshire S Major, Bristol S Major, Stedman Caters * 2, Cambridge S Royal * 2, 10 lowered in peal.

 

 


Maintained by Clive Moon
Last modified 01/07/2009