Secretary : Isabel Pearce : 01732 761199
Additional contact : Sue Fisher
24th to 26th October 2008 - Weekend in Bucks/Beds, four towers on the Friday afternoon and seven on the Saturday.
There is a draft programme if anyone is interested in joining us. Email Sue on the link above or phone Isabel.
14th March 2009 - District AGM at Godstone, Surrey (to be confirmed).
Walter Dobbie
At Sevenoaks on the 26th September 2004 a quarter peal of Grandsire Triples was rung
by members of the Ladies Guild Kent Branch in memory of our very dear friend Walter
Dobbie, with our love and best wishes to Sheila.
1 Janet Raynor
2 Sue Fisher (c)
3 Doris Colgate
4 Mary Andrews
5 Emma Jarvis
6 Freda Cannon
7 Isabel Pearce
8 Lesley Barclay
I particularly wanted to call this quarter peal in memory of Walter, as he gave me the
calling some years ago, to make a change from my usual effort. I can still hear his soft,
Kent voice saying "Out with a single, twice before, single at middle, in with a single
and a plain lead".
Walter also played a large part in teaching me to ring methods on handbells and had an
amazing knack of using his elbows to indicate that one should be ringing one's bell and
was late. He would also sing the next change in his deep, resonant voice in an attempt
to keep the touch going.
Many of us have happy memories of sitting in hotel bedrooms, or standing in car parks,
on Kent Branch ringing weekends, ringing Walter's bells, cast by his own skilled hands.
I count myself extremely fortunate to have known him and for the fact that I seem to
have inherited his elbows!!
I hope I can use his legacy well.
Sue Fisher.