Wellesbourne, St Peter

I visited for the first time on Saturday 20^th September 2008 as part of the WDCRA Southern Branch 2008 tour.

At present ringing on 8 bells is a bit of a stretch, I did however ring Plain Hunt on bell #7.

My second visit was on Saturday 15^th December 2012 with the Four Shires Guild.

While I managed to ring a lot more than my first visit it was not a very successful evening. I started with a touch on Stedman Triples on bell #5 which fell apart the first time because of my mistakes and then again because of others. This was followed by some poor ringing of Cambridge which was brought to an end by the rope of bell #7 breaking. After 15 minutes replacing the rope we were off again but things did not really improve. I rang Stedman Triples again, this time on bell #3, which was also a disaster. I figured it was safer for me not to try anything that involved thinking and rang the Tenor for Grandsire Triples, even this proved too much, from the back I could see all kinds of wierdness going on, seems lots of people were just having a bad night! Ringing down went well though, about the only thing all night! Perhaps it was anticipation of Christmas Party that was to follow this practice.

I returned on Saturday 3^rd October 2015 as the fourth tower [1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 5^th] of the Inkberrow ringers outing.

I started by ringing up what I thought was #6 but turned out to be #7. We had a fair bit of difficulty raising the bells in peal and only after we had finished and discussed the problem did we come to the realisation that what we had considered to be the Tenor was in fact the Treble! Things improved after this and we rang lots of Rounds & Call Changes and a touch of Grandsire Doubles. I lost track of what I rang the various bells for but rang the treble, #4, #7 and the (actual) tenor.