Heather Forster 2009-10

A band of regular UL “Thursday Night” members including two freshers entered the 38th Annual Tewkesbury Shield competition. We had (unusually for us) a good draw when compared to the OUS (the only people we really wanted to beat!) who had not only been up since 5am to ring for May Morning, but had a […]

Arriving in the town particularly early, I took the chance to explore the centre a little, learn the road layouts, and do a quick check over the suggested pubs to see if they’d match up to expectations – they didn’t. So I went onto an easy pub to find for those arriving by train: The

This year’s UL trip to Lundy came with a new twist- for the first time 15 intrepid souls committed themselves to an entire week of each other’s company, with a further 24 coming to inspect the wreckage for the final long weekend and, in the process, breaking last year’s record of 37 attendees. The full-week

The PANCAKE PARTY this year was organised by HELLEN Richardson and saw a small, but faithful group of pancake partiers heading to Hellen’s place near KENTISH TOWN OVERGROUND station to cook, TOSS and eat huge amounts of pancakes to celebrate the start of LENT. From the photos I can find (as this was a very

This year’s UL peal weekend was held on the 12th-14th February. Things started well on the Friday night with a successful handbell peal of Yorkshire Major, which was Nick Harley’s first of Surprise on handbells. There was also a tower-bell peal of spliced Uxbridge, London, Superlative, Cambridge and Rutland Surprise Major at Rotherhithe. This was

Having arrived at Hook station bright and early, we were led off to the first tower of the day, Rotherwick, a decidedly uninteresting six with the only highlights being a post in the middle of the floor with Grandsire written out on each side, and a tenor which was so light set that each touch

Dinner weekend kicked off on the Friday night with ringing at St Magnus the Martyr followed by drinking in the nearby Walrus and Carpenter. This was many members’ first ring on the bells, which were installed earlier in the year. Due to building work at the Queens Tower we were unable to ring there on

Having missed both the Freshers tour and the pub crawl this was my first UL event. I do not pretend that this is necessarily a true and accurate representation of the events occurring, but I hope that I have got some of it right at least. On the Friday afternoon I met Heather and Nick

For me and Nick Hartley, the pub crawl started 2 pints before everyone else with a quick tour around the pubs local to Imperial, the Queen’s Arms and the Anglesea Arms, the nearest pub to my halls of residence. Then it was off to the tube (in an already rather worryingly inebriated gait for myself)

On the cool, rather grey, and uninteresting morning of Saturday, 31st October nine members of the UL met at Bank Underground Station. This was the start of an epic tour of four towers, almost as many pubs, and also numerous toilets for Jacqui. After being ‘driven’ on the Docklands Light railway by Lizzy and Poodle