Here are a few photographs from the Cheshire Ring trip: a week starting on Saturday 3rd July 1976 on two seventyfoot narrowboats from Willow Wren Kearns in Middlewich, with the occasional stop for some ringing. Organised by Peter Bickley. It was the year of the drought and plans for an anticlockwise trip had to be replaced with a clockwise version, thus disrupting all the tower organisation at the last moment.

Here are a few photographs from the Autumn 1976 ringing tour to Kent organised by Chris Silver on Saturday/Sunday 16th/17th October 1976. There was a pile of furniture in the hall to make way for sufficient sleeping space on the floor.

Here are a few scanned colourslides from the 1977 dinner day tour to New Arlesford on 19th February 1977.

Here are a few scanned colourslides from the 1977 annual dinner on 19th February 1977. This was the first dinner to be held in the Spring term (so there was no Annual Dinner in the calendar year 1976). The President was Canon Kenneth W H Felstead.

Here are a few photographs from the May 1977 ringing tour (which for some reason, lost in memory, involved sitting in an historic car).

Here are a few photographs from the Llangollen and Chester trip: a week starting on Saturday 25th June 1977 on two seventyfoot narrowboats from Willow Wren Kearns in Middlewich, with the occasional stop for some ringing.

Here are a few scanned colourslides from the 1978 annual dinner on Saturday 18th February. The President was Canon Kenneth W H Felstead.

Here are a few photographs from the Leicester Ring trip: a week starting on Saturday 24th June 1978 on two seventyfoot narrowboats from Willow Wren Hire Cruisers in Rugby, with the occasional stop for some ringing.

The first part is straightforward: Lavenham are excellent bells. East Bergholt are unique in having the bells in a cage in the churchyard. They are rung by pushing on the lip of the bell, giving the bell a bit of an extra impetus with a handle on the blue headstock as it whizzes by, and then grabbing on the lip again as it comes to balance - resisting and pushing the other way to hunt down, or holding on the balance a while to hunt up.

Like all ringing, it's fine when you get the rhythm of it: until then it's a bad idea to get an arm in the wrong place at the wrong time. And yes, they did let us all have a go under supervision on a single bell. Not everyone did.

Here are two photographs from the beer-and-skittles on the evening of Saturday 28th October 1978.