Lizzy Stokoe 2010-11

This year’s Tewkesbury Shield saw the test piece being a touch of 360 Grandsire Caters. Their comments on each team were as follows: Team 1 (Hereford Diocesan Guild, peal speed 3h 20m): the ends of the changes were a little variable, with either bells in 8-9 stretching out or the tenor driving in. Small problems […]

The 2011 Easter Tour saw a select group of UL members venture abroad to the other side of the Severn Estuary and visit the Land of Jones. As well as the ringing at the beautiful Abergavenny, the UL went down the Big Pit coal mine involving dressing up in mining clothes and getting a miner’s

The UL Pancake Party saw a small, but select group of UL stalwarts ensuring that all supplies of fatty foods and other items that need to be given up for Lent were used up in the traditional manner before the annual fast until Easter started (or, for the slightly less religious, a good excuse to

Peal weekend 2012 saw the Master organise a good number of peals. The peal at Stepney on Friday night was incidentally the first Society peal of the Master’s year to have been scored in England as previous successes had seen two in Germany, and one each in Scotland and Spain!). The peal itself, Yorkshire Major

The winter tour this year was on 15th January to the Northwest, specifically Apsley and Hemel Hempstead. Managing to meet at Euston at 8:45am to catch the train to Apsley we set off to ring at our first tower – St Mary’s, Apsley End which were a heavyish 6 that had a link with a

The UL Dinner 2010 was a great event and ably organised by Clara. The weekend started well with ringing at Bow and the pub session afterwards was a stress free occasion for all involved. Well it was until Martin sent Clara a text message to inform her that he had just heard that the company

This year it was decided that it was time for the UL to host the SUA competition. What could possibly go wrong? The Friday ringing session was at St Mary-le-Bow, people just had to get there. It turned out that Bristol went to Hart Street Church for reasons best known to them, and the rest

The day began at quarter to ten at St. Anne’s church in the leafy suburb of Highgate. A rather light ring of eight at 12cwt they proved an interesting start to the day, most notably because of their poor sound quality. According to Dove’s guide, all the bells had been cast in 1853 which would

On Tuesday, 12th October, the UL reached the grand old age of 65 and so it was decided that there should be a proper Birthday Party to celebrate. After a bit of a panic to find a venue, Hellen came up trumps by getting us a room at the RVC to turn into a party

I awoke bright and early, raring to go and hot-footed it out to Kings Cross to catch the 8:10 train to Leeds. Unbeknownst to me Tom Wood and Hugh were also on this train and so, enlightened to this fact a while later, I went to join them, mildly concussing those I passed with my