Photo thanks to: Clare Dyer [AFG_gallery id=’23’] The London 12-bell competition this year was hosted by the Cumberlands and held at Shoreditch Church. The day started at 10am with tea coffee and bacon rolls provided in the church hall. These were supplemented by some with chunks of Chinese crispy duck courtesy of Luke Camden who […]
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Photo thanks to: Helen Saddleton, Jacqueline Bale, Lucy Bricheno and Tom Sibley [AFG_gallery id=’19’] Day 1 – Saturday 3rd September 2011: Most of the UL Summer Tour-ers arrived in Nottingham with one notable exception – Jenny Willis who managed to get the wrong train (claiming that there were 2 trains on the platform) and ended
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Photo thanks to: Mariko Whyte [AFG_gallery id=’21’] The Summer cycling tour this year was, despite the initial disadvantage of not being in Dorset, every bit as brilliant as last years. It occurred on the last weekend in July in Horsham, hosted by Tom Sibley and his welcoming parents. Canna and I arrived on the Friday
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Photo thanks to: Helen Herriott and Thomas Wood [AFG_gallery id=’22’] Saturday 11th June saw the day of the famous UL treasure hunt, this year organised by Lizzy and Peter, who had created ULopoly, similar to the traditional monopoly but involving towers through London rather than streets. With glorious sunshine it was going to be a
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The pub crawl this year was organised by Gee, and started out in Doggett’s Coat and Badge, where both the other Helen and I discovered the wonders of Früli strawberry beer in all its tastiness. The crispy congealed fat went down well too, for most of us. Most of the party turned up here, and
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Boat 1 – Sandringham Day 1: Saturday In the beginning there was a blonde and a ginger and it was good. They were joineth by a Guy wearing glasses in a land called St Pancras. They boardeth a train and henceforth fell asleep. Anyway, writing the report in that style is taking too long… so
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