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Welcome
to the Home Page of The Whiting Society of Ringers |
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The
Whiting Society is a
group of bellringers, or change ringers. If you aren't a ringer, this
won't mean much to you, and you perhaps ought to look at What is Change Ringing? to
find out what it's all about.
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 The Principals |
The
Whiting Society
publishes a range
of books about bells and bellringing. Take
a look at our on-line shop to
see our full range of books for bell
ringers, and at publications
news to see what we might have
in the not too distant future.
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 Our Bookstall |
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Here's a selection from recent additions to the site - click on the light bulb for a list of recent additions. 27/04/2026 You Tube video - see What's New 05/05/2026 Old Books - see What's New |
 Click the bulb for content added in the last year or so |
As well as the books, here are some articles about various aspects of bells, change ringing, bellfounding, and even bell ropes. If you've arrived on this page from a search engine looking for information about Plain Bob Doubles, Beginners Treble Bob Minor, or the bellfounding industry in Glasgow, let alone Yorkshire tail ends or teaching bell handling, it's all in here. |
 Some of our Training Material |
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This
area is for members
of The
Whiting Society of Ringers only.
Password login is required. If you are
a member,
and don't have a user name and password, contact
us and
we'll sort it out.
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 Members Only |
We have available for free download a library of over three hundred, mostly old, mainly nineteenth century books about bells or change ringing. Most are out of copyright, all are interesting, especially as a window on to the social attitudes of the times, and most are still useful. Take a look. |
 Old Ringing Books |
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If you want to get in
touch, here's a
form to send us an email, or a postal address if you prefer to write a
letter. Either way, we'll respond as soon as we can, but please bear in
mind we're a bellringing society, not a business, and we don't have
full time staff!
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 Contact Us |
Here are some more links to other sites about bells and bellringing, which you might find of interest |
 Useful Links |
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Methods Named Since
2013, the Society has
been naming methods after members who have contributed to its work over
many years. Take a look.
A
bit of fun! But some of
it has a serious point.
The
Society runs various
courses from time to time on ringing related topics.
The
Society had a stand at the
Ringing Roadshow in September 2014, and
which several new books, and the DVD / book combination, From Rounds to
Ropesight, were launched. Take a look now if you weren't at the
Roadshow, or even if you were!
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 Methods Named  Poetry  Courses  Ringing Roadshow 2014 |
This website is written in boring, plain, old fashioned HTML code. Our aim has been to ensure that it is polite, and well mannered. It will not talk to you, or blare loud music at you, nor even ring bells at you unless you ask it to. Nothing will change, or melt away, or move as you are looking at it. The text will not dissolve as you are reading it. No colours will change: nothing will flash, twinkle or leap across the screen. Whilst our aim is to develop the content of the site over time, we'll try to leave familiar stuff where you can find it, so it doesn't start to feel like one of those irritating supermarkets that move the stock around every day. The emphasis is on providing a wide variety or relevant, good quality content, not on showing off flash programming techniques to produce irritating and irrelevant distractions. If you want to comment on anything you like, or anything you don't like, just contact us. Your comments are always welcome. We hope you enjoy the site and find it interesting and useful. |
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