Did you know the Guild has a library, from which books may be borrowed? It has had this for many years and a list of books, either for borrowing or for sale, used to appear in the Newsletter. Peter Kenealy is the 'keeper of the books'. The list of library books is as follows:-
A Schedule of Regular Maintenance | Central Council |
Collection of Doubles Methods | Central Council |
Collection of Plain Minor Methods | Central Council |
Conducting for Beginners. | Central Council |
Doubles & Minor for Beginners. | Central Council |
Elementary Method Construction. | Central Council |
Guidelines for a do-it-yourself Project | Central Council |
Judging Striking Competitions. | Central Council |
Maintenance Handbook. | Central Council |
Minor Methods. | Central Council |
Place Notation. | Central Council |
The Council's Decisions, May 26th 1992 | Central Council |
Towards Better Striking. | Central Council |
Tower Captains Handbook | Central Council |
Triples & Major for Beginners | Central Council |
Rope Splicing. | Oxford D Guild |
Bibliography. | Oxford D Guild |
Plain Hunting & Plain Bob Doubles | Oxford D Guild |
Belfry Care & Maintenance. | Oxford D Guild |
Arranging one day ringing & maintenance courses | Oxford D Guild |
Sound Control. | Oxford D Guild |
Stedman Doubles & Triples | Oxford D Guild |
Grandsire Doubles. | Oxford D Guild |
Bob Calling for Beginners | Oxford D Guild |
Learning Change-ringing on Handbells | Oxford D Guild |
Eight Doubles Methods. | Oxford D Guild |
Surprise Minor - Part 1 | Oxford D Guild |
Surprise Minor - Part 2 & 3 | Oxford D Guild |
Conducting Stedman. | David E. Parsons |
Grandsire. | J. Armiger Trollope |
Raising & Lowering in Peal | John Harrison |
Standard 70. | John Longridge |
Conducting & Coursing Order. | John Longridge |
Treble Bob Major Variations. | John Longridge |
Conducting Grandsire Triples. | Norman Chaddock |
The Follow-on Book for Bellringers. | Pam Copson |
The "Standard 8" Surprise Major Methods. | Peter T. Hurcombe |
Will You Call a Touch Please, Bob. | Peter T. Hurcombe |
The Method Ringer's Companion. | Steve Coleman |
Ropesight. | William Snowden |
Peter is the man to see if you would like to borrow a book. Please see him, too, if you think a book ought to be included in the library. My own suggestion is Steve Coleman's other books in his series, because, apart from being an excellent read by an excellent writer (nobody writes quite like him!), they offer exceptionally good advice on many aspects of ringing. Ed