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Date: 31 Dec 2005   Time: 13:49:04

What a fantastic website (signed the author)

Date: 31 Dec 2005   Time: 15:53:06

I like the modesty of the author (!) though I must say that I really have to agree. So which is the Method of the Month (or 2..) for the New Year? Stephen

Date: 01 Jan 2006   Time: 15:21:18

I think the website looks v professional especially with the photos from the walk and ring! Elizabeth :-)

Date: 03 Jan 2006   Time: 18:08:29

its brilliant!

Date: 05 Jan 2006   Time: 14:08:15

I learnt to ring at Ampthill - Jim Yates taught me. Great website and good luck with your ringing. Mark Regan

Thanks for your comments Mark - how fantastic to hear from a former Ampthill ringer!  I was also taught by Jim Yates, in the early 1980s.

Date: 13 Jan 2006   Time: 13:36:28

Yay! I'm writing this at school because I'm too lazy to work. Hullo mum! ~Alice~

Date: 13 Jan 2006   Time: 21:01:46

This is a really good site. I am at the plain bob doubles stage and learning touches. I rang a quarter inside to bob doubles for my 21st birthday and am attempting my third peal soon. I also ring grandsire inside but not to touches. Please feel free to visit my site as well. It is www.freewebs.com/ringingasahobby. Thanks From Emily

Date: 16 Jan 2006   Time: 19:46:25

I would like to congratulate you on an excellent site. Well done! Keep up the good work. Adrian F Sunman

Date: 19 Jan 2006   Time: 20:18:55

I lived in Ampthill from 1958 to 1969 but, as there was not a change ringing band at that time (they rang from cards) I rang at Maulden as I had not long learned to handle a bell. Heard a lot of the bells as there was a very regular band then and the striking was always good! A good/interesting website, best wishes to all. Keith H Fleming

Date: 23 Jan 2006   Time: 23:05:27

Great website. I visited because 1. I am a ringer and 2. My father and generations before that came from Ampthill. Anne East (nee Peck)

Are you by any chance related to the Pecks that ran the fantastic department store in the days when you could buy anything you needed in Ampthill?!

Date: 27 Jan 2006   Time: 15:40:56

A very professional website! Congratulations Jackie
Kevin

Date: 01 Feb 2006   Time: 09:32:38

I first started bellringing back in 1968 at Ampthill with Mark Regan and I was taught to ring by Jim Yates. Haven't progressed much since then, the odd surprise method on a good night, but I still enjoy the hobby. My daughter is following in the family tradition and is learning to ring too.

Only came upon the web site (which looks really great by the way) because I needed to contact the church regarding my Confirmation details, ready for ordination in June.

Good luck and best wishes to you all.

Barry Keal

Date: 26 Feb 2006   Time: 21:52:41

Mark Regan wrote "I learnt to ring at Ampthill - Jim Yates taught me. Great website and good luck with your ringing." Jim taught me too and I well remember the 1981 picture in your gallery. Do you know whare Jim Yates is now? Liked your website!!

Colin Horstmann
www.courtfarm.co.uk

Hi Colin - I'm starting to think we should have a get-together of old Ampthill ringers!  Jim Yates is in Cornwall, still heavily involved in ringing (see The Ringing World no. 4936 2nd December 2005 for his article on the Advent Bellframe Project) and I'm planning on getting in touch with him, if he doesn't happen upon this website first...  Do you still ring, and might other ringers get preferential rates at your holiday cottages?!

Date: 11 Mar 2006   Time: 16:00:08

It's good to see that the website has developed quite a bit and with all the links is a good source of information! Congratulations on the recent QP. Excellent! Stephen

Date: 16 Mar 2006   Time: 19:26:04

I have just returned to ringing after a 36 year gap and needed help learning grandsire doubles, which I put in google search and found you. Your layout is so easy to understand. I ring at Elloughton, E. Yorkshire. We practise on Thursdays, 8pm if ever you are up this way.
Regards
Gail

Thank you Gail!

Date: 16 Apr 2006   Time: 12:59:34

My name is Stuart Cann. I grew up in Ampthill and my parents still reside there. My mum, Sylvia Cann, is still very active within the church at St Andrews.
I have just been looking at the 1974 photo - I am front row second from left. It gave me great pleasure to look at all the old faces.
Surprise ,surprise I was also taught to ring by Jim Yates. I remember with great fondness attending ringing competitions within Biggleswade and district with Jim and the crew.
Nice to see that ringing is still very active at Ampthill- when I am next up I will call by and who knows may ring a bell or two. I must confess it has been some time now since I pulled a rope. Good luck to you all - great web site.

Date: 21 Jan 2008   Time: 09:26

Thank you so much for your wonderful website. Casting around in the beginner's mire of Grandsire Doubles I was desperate for some clear rules and logic. Your site provided this - well done! Roy Chapman - Thorpe on the Hill Tower, Lincolnshire.