University of London Society of Change Ringers – UL

Freshers Welcome!

Fact File

• Society Officers
• 8 bells, 11-3-23
• St Olaves, Hart St. Tower Hill
• Practice: Thurs 1900-2030 (term time)
• Service: Sun 1020-1100 (1st/3rd)

Come and join the University of London Society of Change Ringers. The Fact File and links above tell you when and where we practice and which Sundays we ring for services.

ULSCR was founded just after the end of WWII with the objectives being the promotion of the art & science of change ringing in the University of London & ringing for church services.

Membership is open to all past/present members & employees of any institution or college in London. We welcome all ringing abilities and our active social calendar includes: tours, treasure hunts, picnics, handbells, competitions, peal/quarter weekends, theatre trips, concerts, parties, dinners and lots more!

Recent Posts/News

5th May '12   Tewkesbury Shield – Andrew Hills 

30th Mar '12   Easter Tour – Roxy Hughes 

10th Feb '12   Peal Weekend 2012 This year’s Peal Weekend was held on 10th-13th February. For the third year running there has been an increase in success rate with 5 out of 7 peals being scored, four of which were rung for the ULSCR with one being SOS. The attempt of Yorkshire Maximus on Friday night came to grief early on [...]

1st Feb '12   Theatre Trip > Les Miserables On Wednesday 1st February the UL went to see Les Miserables at the Queen’s theatre. We all met at Leicester Square Tube station and headed to China Town. We soon found an all you can eat buffet and ate lots of food. After realising that we need to be at the theatre very soon and [...]

20th Jan '12   Freshers’ Pub Crawl – Chris Rimmer 

14th Jan '12   Winter Tour 2011 On Saturday 14th January the UL set off for Canterbury on the Winter Tour. Those hardy souls who got up really early enjoyed a leisurely journey through the mists and frost of a chilly winter morning, whilst those who got up rather later were treated to a high speed whisk through Kent to our destination. [...]

9th Dec '11   Trafalgar Square 2011 After some time of deliberation Mariko booked our Trafalgar Square slot: “I’ve booked a slot for us to perform which will be on Friday 9th December from 8-9pm… Practices will be 16th Oct, 6th Nov, 20th Nov and 4th Dec between about 1pm and 2:30pm at Hart St. I also suggest a practice at Hart [...]

25th Nov '11   Dinner Weekend The Dinner weekend this year started at Spitalfields with an unusually low turnout for some open ringing. However some good ringing was enjoyed including some silly Bristol. The turnout to the Gun following the ringing was much better showing that many people were doing the classic UL trick of skipping the ringing and going straight [...]

11th Nov '11   Southern Universities Association Photo thanks to: Ben Meyer, Becca Cullen, Jacqueline Bale The UL attended an eventful and thoroughly enjoyable SUA which, I have been reliably informed, may even have been as good as when we hosted it last year (I know… shocking!). For those people who decided to accept the President’s Challenge, the event started early (11.30am), [...]

5th Nov '11   Bonfire Night (aka Lewes Bonfire Night) It all began at not such an unsociable hour on the morning of Saturday 5th November when three of us (Mariko, Peter and Myself) boarded a train at Victoria, later joined by Mr Sibley, heading for the deepest darkest parts of Sussex – to Becca’s house, who had volunteered (been forced) to host us for [...]