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From the Chair

Hello and welcome to this summer edition of the Scottish Regional magazine. Firstly, a very big thank you to Callander Chimes who hosted our Spring Rally and AGM. We had a great turnout with 82 ringers from eleven teams attending. An enjoyable afternoon of ringing was ably led by our massed ringing conductors - Elaine Duffus, and Lysbeth and Malcolm Wilson. Listening to the individual teams ring, it is great to hear how much the standard of ringing has risen. The AGM saw a couple of changes to the Regional Committee. Jean Routledge stood down after five years as secretary and several more as a committee member. Thank you, Jean, for all the hard work you have done for the Region. Marge Paterson, Cumnock and Dunoon Valley HR, becomes our new secretary and Liz Jamieson joins us on the committee. As yet, we have no venue for our Spring Rally and AGM next year. Could your team offer to host? Do you have a suggestion for a venue? If so, please let me know. The committee will be on hand to assist with all the organising of the day. Five Scottish ringers attended Celebration. Teams will be invited to perform two pieces on a celebratory type theme. So get your thinking caps on and lets see how creative you can be. The massed ringing pieces will also be on the theme of celebration. Further details will be sent out at the beginning of August. The 15th International Symposium happening in Liverpool next August will soon be here. Are you thinking of attending? Have you signed up as a volunteer? Are you perhaps thinking of going to see the final conThis years Scottish cert? If the answer to any Schools Ring was held at of these questions is yes, Newton Primary School, please do let me know. It th Dunblane on 12 May. 140 will be great to form a Scotyoung ringers joined in a tish team at this event and it fun day of ringing, includmay be the Region may be ing Castletown Primary able to assist by organising School in Thurso who were travel. able to participate through I am looking forward to GLOW, the Scottish attending the National Resischools secure intranet service. Thanks are due to dential Ringing Week in Lysbeth and Malcolm Wil- Kingston in August. Anson for organising and con- other four Scottish ringers are also attending. A report tinuing to encourage our of this event will feature in young ringers. the next magazine. For our Autumn event, your In the meantime, have a committee are organising two themed regional rallies. great summer and happy ringing. This year is the 15th birthday of the Scottish Region. Christine D Reid The theme for these rallies Scottish Region Chair. will therefore be the National Rally at Royal Holloway College in April. This excellently run event afforded them lots of ringing opportunities. In 2013 the National Rally comes to Scotland. The dates for your diary are the 12th 14th April 2013 and the venue the Normandy Hotel, Renfrew. This will be an opportunity to attend a variety of workshops to improve your ringing and to join with other ringers from around the UK in massed ringing sessions and it is on our doorstep,
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Hello Many thanks to those of you who have contributed to this issue. If you are thinking of sending articles for future newsletters please send any photos separately and do not add any embellishments. If you are submitting your article to Reverberations as well please try to make them different in some way so that Scottish readers are not seeing the same thing twice. Notification of your intention to send to both publications would be useful. I hope you enjoy Newsletter 46 and feel encouraged to contribute to Newsletter 47 in the autumn. Sue Editor

Aberdeens Callander Girls Take to the Road

The rain soaked dawn of Saturday 26th March was broken by the sound of alarm clocks of all shapes, sizes and forms throughout Aberdeen as the Callander Girls (better known as the ladies of Silver City Chimes!) prepared to set off for the 2011 HRGB Scottish Region Spring Rally & AGM to be held in Callander hosted by Callander Chimes. Eight of our eleven members all female - were available to attend this event and were originally known as the Callander Crew. Before long, our male ringer renamed us the Callander Girls! myself for the day, Two Boats to Iona. As three of our ringers had been unable to attend the rally, we were fortunate to have the willing assistance of Lynda Barclay of Jordanhill Handbells to give us another pair of capable hands. The other teams performed a wide and interesting assortment of pieces throughout the day including Classical pieces, Scottish melodies, pieces specially written for handbells and seasonal music a great variety all played with verve, flair and of course, great concentration! Malcolm Wilson led us cheerfully and patiently through our third massed ringing set We were given a An Easter Collection (arr. Caesarian Ringers). key-changes, time warm welcome by This had changes, the lot. It changes, facial expression was quite a challenge but Malcolm kept us on our toes (if not our hosts entirely on our notes!) All too soon the final set of massed ringing came to an end. It had been a very quick but most enjoyable day and it was great to see such a good turn-out of teams from around the country. It is events like these that remind us we are not alone in our love of ringing in our own little corners of the world. There are people just like us everywhere and its great to have opportunities to meet up with them and share experiences, ideas, music and even the trials and tribulations! Just over twelve hours after we set off, we were back in (now dry but chilly) Aberdeen, ready for a good nights sleep after the early start then we remembered we had to put our clocks forward and lose an hour. Theres always something! Many thanks to all in Callander Chimes for a great day. Elaine Duffus Musical Director, Silver City Chimes

Proudly wearing new jumpers with our chimes logo on them, we boarded our hired coach at 7.30am along with GJK Chapel Chimers who were also travelling to the event from Aberdeen. It was an early start but everyone was in good time and in good spirits so we quickly loaded up the coach and were on our way in the hands of our cheery and capable driver. Just over two hours and fifteen minutes later we arrived safely in Callander after a very comfortable run. On entering the car park at the McLaren Leisure Centre, the venue for the day, we spotted a lady holding a sign which said Rally such a helpful thing to do and we were directed to the entrance with our loads of tables, chimes, covers, music stands, packed lunches etc. We were given a warm welcome by our hosts and were directed to our setting up points and to the tea/coffee table. Obviously a well organised event! Before long the hall was filling up with ringers, equipment, chattering and the sound of the hot water urns. This was a great opportunity to meet up with old friends and meet new ones. The Regional AGM started at 12noon and our Chairman, Christine, ably assisted by our Secretary, Jean, and Treasurer, Lynda, led us through the formalities slickly and efficiently. Alan Hartley, Chairman of HRGB had joined us with his wife, Margaret, for the event and he gave us an update on the situation regarding ringers in Japan and Christchurch, New Zealand. With the AGM over, everyone set to enjoy the contents of their lunchboxes and the delicious soup provided for us. More chatter and laughter echoed around the hall before we returned to our team places for the rally. Eleven teams were represented at the event ten of whom performed two pieces. Prior to the team performances, we joined in massed ringing of Sweet Nightingale (which I had somehow been persuaded to conduct!) and The Dark Island, arranged and conducted by Lysbeth Wilson. Silver City Chimes performed the two-octave version of Arnold Shermans arrangement of Morning Has Broken and a new arrangement written by

Some members of Silver City Chimes take a break at the Spring Rally
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News from Caithness

Last years local music festival saw collaboration between the Caithness Handbell Ringers and the Poltney Bell Ringers which led to the birth of the Caithness Bell Orchestra proving that handbell ringing in the county is here to stay. It also ignited much more interest in handbell ringing in the county and in January of this year Cynthia Hardyman, secretary of the Caithness Handbell Ringers started the Thursday Morning Ringers, the beginners branch of the Caithness Handbell Ringers. So Handbell ringing is thriving in Caithness and bells can be heard ringing on Tuesday mornings in Wick, Thursday morning in Thurso and Saturday morning in Thurso most weeks of the year! The Caithness Handbell Ringers hosted a Ring From Scratch Day at the end of March. They invited members of the Poltney Bell Ringers and the Thursday Morning Ringers to join them in the challenge of learning a new piece of music in a day and performing it in a concert to round off the event. The guest musical director for the day, Katrina Gordon had arranged the ring from scratch music and led the days event. 10am saw us meeting and greeting and the serving of coffee and cakes. By 11am bells had been allocated - some of us were not on our usual bells (panic) and the ring from scratch music had been revealed. It was Henry Purcells well known Abdelazer (The Moors Revenge). Rehearsal commenced promptly. The first thing that jumped out at most ringers was the unfamiliar time signature of 3/2, but that was soon explained and we moved on. Lunch breaks were staggered to allow each team time to rehearse music of their choice to be included in the afternoon concert. Joint rehearsal resumed at 1.45pm with a run through of Pachelbels Canon arranged by Katrina Gordon which most of the ringers had rung before in the Caithness Music Festival, last year, as members of the Caithness Bell Orchestra. The remaining rehearsal time was spent on Abdelazer. The concert commenced at 3.15pm and concluded at 4pm. The day had been a real learning curve for all involved and an eye opener as to how much work goes into organising such an event. But over all there was a great sense of achievement. Everyone agreed it was great to have such an event right on our door step. Lyn Ball Poltney Bell Ringers

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Cushnie Handbell Ringers

At our AGM we had the same problem come up as has in the last 5-10 years of meeting.how to get new members and keep the age range lower than 60+?? We have enjoyed our last year with many opportunities to play and to raise our profile in each area, but we still lack members. As the one nominated to improve our image I enlisted the help of the press and I encouraged a local reporter from The Press and Journal in an item covering our playing at the induction of the new minister at Cushnie and Tough church. It was in the middle of the page in the local section of the paper! Our future events include a new venture having a stall at a very successful local Gala, in Rhynie, which gives a substantial amount of money to each group that takes part. We would welcome any suggestions on how to get and keep new membersplease help!!! Our year: Janet Robinson and I attended a car boot sale to raise money for 2 new bells both middle and top C sharp were needed. Our member, Vi, made up 3 quizzes and this raised enough money to buy our bells this January for 500. We have our new uniform to identify our distinctive group. Members of the Cushnie congregation took in playing the bells as part at Cushnie & Tough Induction in March. We were well received at the Rhynie Rural, in June, where Mrs Penny, our leader, gave an interesting talk on how our group got started. The ladies then took part in a ring-a-long time. We set up our tent at the Cushnie Picnic and Games in June also and had a fun musical game to encourage children to come and play.and thereby attract their parents. We played in August as part of the musical accompaniment in Cushnie church at their summer joint services. We played and encouraged the ladies from the Insch group to join in. This was another night of fun, in October. We took part in the Aberdeen Autumn/Winter rally, and our floral offering for the Mistletoe and Wine theme was much admired. We have a Christmas soiree for ourselves with an excellent mulled wine made by Vi Winter, one of our members. We have also attended other events and been asked back to nursing homes, sheltered accommodation and outdoor Markets this year, so we feel that we do put on a good show when we are asked to events. Janet Robinson and our leader Mrs Penny were both asked by Brownie packs to speak about the bell ringing club and allow the children to have a go at playing. We appreciate being able to play in public but we mostly just like playing for ourselves and having a good laugh together. Alison Hunter Press Executive for Cushnie Handbell Ringers May 2011

The Bells of St Johns

St Johns Scottish Episcopal Church in Dumfries has a new bell choir under the direction of American-born Carl Wiltse. Robin Paisley, rector, was very supportive of adding this new ensemble to the churchs music programme, as was the churchs Choirmaster, Jamie Brand. Most of the members of the choir are also members of the singing Choir, and as a result like the Choir the Bells of St Johns cover a large age range, from 13 to mid-seventies. The group started in the spring of 2010, playing simple hymn arrangements. Beginning in the autumn of 2010, they began working on more difficult music, most notable Hal H. Hopsons Fantasy on Hyfrydol. Most recently, they premiered an arrangement of There is a green hill far away for organ and 3 octave bell choir. A substantial portion of the choir is from one family: three girls and their father. There are 11 ringers in all. Its gratifying to see how quickly they have learned the techniques of playing bells, and to see their sight reading skills improve. Things can only get better! Carl Wiltse
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We used to spend ages putting our Belleplates back into the carry case in the right order until one of us thought of numbering the plastic covers in the order they go in the box. Hey presto! Plates in case in no time.

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The Parish of Dunkeld HR

A fund-raising Coffee Morning was held at The Tryst, Pitlochry in March, with proceeds being shared between Heartland Radio and group funds (to assist with the cost of transporting equipment on tour to Oban, Mull and Iona). To our horror, we woke that morning to find deep snow, with a Since then members have been kept busy ringing in Bridge of Earn, Perth, Burrelton, Forgandenny and in services at the Cathedral together with the choir and organ.. Eight attended the Rally in Callander and thoroughly enjoyed the day. There was a lovely welcome from Callander Chimes on arrival and help with carrying our equipment. We liked the music selected for massed ringing, enjoyed the varied performances by other teams and thought Anne made an excellent compere. Soon after the Rally Margaret and I were on our way to Callander again, invited by Callander Chimes to spend a morning with them. They wanted to see more solo ringing and also to have-a go themselves. Everyone tried, amidst much laughter. Maybe well see them solo ringing at a future rally. Handbell Harmony continues throughout the summer in Dunkeld Cathedral every Wednesday from 2 4 p.m. (with the exception of June 8th when the group is on tour). One of the stated aims in our Constitution is to promote the art of handbell ringing in the wider community and we try to fulfil this in our many activities e.g. our tours and the production, so far, of two DVDs and three CDs, all selling well far and wide with 15% donated to Cornhill MacMillan, Perth. The latest CD is entitled Iona Farewell after a piece composed for small ensembles by Bill Gray, one of our members, and inspired by our last visit to Iona. Its only a couple of weeks now before we set off on our travels. By the time you read this we shall be back home. Hopefully having enjoyed a week of each others company, plenty of ringing and raised a large amount for charity.

blizzard raging which lasted the whole morning. Disaster! Who would eat and buy all the goodies wed made? No-one in their right mind would turn out in such weather! Some brave souls did though and we raised 255 disappointing, but also surprising in the circumstances. We realised, however, that we would have to think of something else for the transport fund and we did a Sponsored Solo Marathon, of which there is a report elsewhere in the newsletter.

Was this a first for the UK?

The Parish of Dunkeld Handbell Ringers have a routine of going on tour every other year, enjoying social time together and giving concerts in aid of charity. Two years ago we went to the Orkney Islands. For our 2011 Tour the group is to perform in Oban (on the west coast), in Duart Castle and Tobermory (on the Island of Mull) and in the Abbey on the Island of Iona., where we have rung before. (As we were to be in Mull, ringing in Duart Castle was a must being the home of Sir Lachlan McLean, Clan Chief of the McLeans and we have two McLeans in the group!) Trying to think of ways to raise funds for transporting all our equipment (the ringers pay all their own expenses) it was decided that I would do a Sponsored Solo Marathon in Dunkeld Cathedral. People could sponsor the event itself, the number of pieces actually rung or could choose, from the list provided, a piece of music, which I would ring for them when they came to the Cathedral.
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Sunday afternoon, May 1st was Marathon Day. My target was 35 pieces of music, perhaps more if I wasn't too exhausted! I was surprised at the size of the audience - some stayed all the way through, others for about half an hour before wandering off for a walk in the lovely area surrounding the Cathedral and returning later to hear more music and see how I was getting on. We had large cards on display which showed the total mounting as I worked my way through the list. I managed 38 pieces and it took me 2 hours and 35 minutes. I wondered if I should have carried on longer in case people arrived late expecting a marathon to go on for a long, long time but I was tired and decided that the marathon aspect was really the number of pieces I rang rather than the length of time. The total amount raised was just over 800 absolutely amazing. Thanks are due to all my sponsors but I should particularly like to thank those ringers from the Scottish Region who

Sunday afternoon, May 1st was Marathon Day. My target was 35 pieces of music, perhaps more if I wasn't too exhausted! I was surprised at the size of the audience - some stayed all the way through, others for about half an hour before wandering off for a walk in the lovely area surrounding the Cathedral and returning later to hear more music and see how I was getting on. We had large cards on display which showed the total mounting as I worked my way through the list. I managed 38 pieces and it took me 2

hours and 35 minutes. I wondered if I should have carried on longer in case people arrived late expecting a marathon to go on for a long, long time but I was tired and decided that the marathon aspect was really the number of pieces I rang rather than the length of time. The total amount raised was just over 800 absolutely amazing. Thanks are due to all my sponsors but I should particularly like to thank those ringers from the Scottish Region who generously supported me. The amount raised was more than needed for transporting the

equipment and so the surplus will be shared between the three charities which are to benefit from the proceeds of our concerts on tour - Cancer MacMillan, The Royal National Lifeboat Institution and The Organ Fund at Oban Church (for a badly needed organ). None of the money will remain in group funds. What we should like to know is was this the first sponsored solo marathon inhe UK? Heather McLean

Closing Date for Issue 47 Saturday 24th September 2011

News from Jordanhill Parish Church HR

Inverness Caithness Jordanhill Ringers

It was good to meet up with so many of our bell ringing friends at the Regional Rally and AGM in Callander and it was great bonus to have Anne Goodall, who has recently moved from Glasgow to Boat of Gartan, join us for our performance as well as the massed ringing as some our team had been unable to come. We then had a weekend visit to Boat of Gartan. On Saturday we were able to meet up with ringers from Inverness and Caithness who Anne had been in touch with. On the Sunday we rang in the local church before heading back to Glasgow. We have just finished our season with our shared annual charity concert with the Jordanhill Community choir raising over 400 for the Well Multicultural Advice Centre. Christine and Ruth are looking forward to being part of the Ringing Week in Kingston upon Thames in August. Ruth Cantlay Jordanhill Parish Church HR

Jordanhill Parish Church Ringers ring in Boat of Garten

Ring in Praise at Dunblane Cathedral

You're going to do WHAT? You're going WHERE? WHY? Just some of the questions asked of me by friends both bell ringers and non bell ringers alike. Then they shrug their shoulders and say Well it is you, isn't it! So, what are the answers? What was I going to do that so astounded my friends? Only attend the Ring in Praise Seminar in Dunblane. Maybe it was that I was going to be driving my elderly camper van from Dorset. Maybe it was because I wasn't taking the most direct route (490 miles) but was going via Ipswich and Hull (720 miles)! Maybe it was because I wanted to go because I'd enjoyed it so much previous times. And that it the crux of the matter. I enjoy it not just because of the food (which is excellent!); certainly not because of the weather (only once has the sun shone in Dunblane when I've been there); not because I was going to be given a tablet (didn't know about that till I got there); but because in my experience the Ring in Praise Seminar is unique. It is the only event which is specifically about bells (and belleplates and chimes) within church worship. As someone who tries to lead a small group of ringers in a small Baptist church it is encouraging to meet with others trying to do the same from across the world; it's encouraging to learn more of what I can do to enhance the worship for all who attend; it's good to be stretched in my own playing which hopefully will make me a better player in the other groups with whom I play. It's a pity we can't transplant Dunblane south of the border so more people will have a shorter journey, but we can't. So why not make a holiday of it and stay a bit longer in the land of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Burns, Nessie and whisky. Thank you Dunblane and all who are involved in organising the Ring in Praise Seminar. See you again another year. Beryl Bariana Buckland Road Baptist Church, Poole, Dorset Four of us travelled up from the Borders, staying in Doune overnight. The following morning we arrived early at Dunblane cathedral and were soon in conversation with a lady who had travelled all the way from Dorset. After coffee we were split into groups and two of us chose Ring all Day under the patient guidance of American Bill Mathis. Our first session was in the cathedral with visitors wandering around. As a complete novice with bells ( I normally ring Belleplates) I found Bills half hour tutorial on technique before we started work on the pieces of music extremely useful. At lunchtime we were treated to a concert from Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers as part of their summer programme. We heard seven beautiful pieces with Matthew Beetschen the organist accompanying.

After lunch we continued practising in the hall and had to keep our wits about us with many new techniques to remember. We worked through sessions 2 and 3 without a break so we were pleased to stretch our legs or sit down when tea time came. After tea we had a final practice session before performing our pieces to the other delegates. I hope they made allowance for any mistakes made. My only regret is that only 25 people took part this year in what was an excellent event. Sue Wilson Border Bells

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

1-6 August 2011 8 October 2011 22 October 2011 National Residential Ringing Week, Kingston Details in Reverberations Regional Rally, Bankfoot, Perth Regional Rally, Cathcart Church, Glasgow 30 March1 April 2012 Natiional Rally, University of York 31 July4 August 2012 15th International Symposium, Liverpool 1214 April 2013 National Rally, Normandy Hotel, Renfrew
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Scottish Schools Ring goes a-Glowing via Caithness!

The Scottish Schools Ring 2011 was hosted by Newton Primary School in Dunblane in May. Within the school itself 120 pupils were gathered from 10 schools around the country and were joined via video-conferencing link by 20 pupils from a Caithness primary school to make music together. With groups using belleplates, handchimes and handbells all 140 pupils worked together on massed ringing pieces of music (including one which had children ringing, singing and walking round the hall). This was the 12th annual event of its kind and the second year in which the event was broadcast live across the Scottish Schools secure intranet, Glow, using secure video-conferencing. Glow is available to every pupil and school staff member in every school in Scotland. It is the first national intranet to do so anywhere in the world. The system provides pupils and teachers with a vast range of online collaborative tools and content. The Scottish Schools Ring last year was the first time a national music event was held in this way. The Glow video-conferencing tool within the special group for schools with handbells, handchimes or belleplates anywhere in Scotland now makes it possible for the event to be visible to those schools which are unable to travel to the event itself, but who would like to take part. That means those schools which are geographically just too far away to travel to the event itself and back in the same day can log into the secure Glow site for this event and see and hear what's going on. And Castletown Primary School in Caithness attested to the success of this tool this year.
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Susan Watson, Primary 5-6 Class Teacher at Castletown Primary School in Caithness said: "The Scottish Schools Ringing Glow Meet was fabulous! The children really worked well preparing

involved in setting up the meet and making the technology work! I certainly look forward to taking part in future events like this using Glow. It is certainly the way forward for a school

the music and were so excited on the day itself. Plenty of learning went on and the listening and concentration skills have definitely improved as a result of the ringing! We successfully managed to play along and thank everyone who was

like ours which is in a Greenmill PS "remote" part of the country." And her pupils agreed. Keira in Primary 5 and Ella in Primary 6 said: "It was really fun!"

Isabella in Primary 6 said: "I enjoyed the Ringing Day a lot. It helps you with music, listening, concentrating and team work. It was good that we did it on Glow because it saved money and time. My favourite tune was Scotland the Brave." Avoiding the expense and time to get from Caithness to the event (which would have been a round trip of nearly 500 miles) was also picked up by Shannon in Primary 6 who added: "We couldn't get to Newton Primary School in Dunblane but it was good meeting them online." As well as all schools joining together in massed performances of three prepared pieces of music, individual schools were given the opportunity to perform their own music on their own if they wished to do so. Danny from Primary 6 in Castletown Primary School said: "My favourite was listening to Titanic!" - this having been performed by Greenmill Primary School in Cumnock, Ayrshire. This is always a hugely enjoyable and rewarding afternoon of music making. Participants work together on 3 pieces of music for massed ringing, provided

in advance - and the music (arranged by both Lysbeth Wilson, who is principal organiser of the event and Malcolm Wilson, who also conducted the massed performances) is provided in three versions to best suit the abilities and experience of schools - there is a simplified chords version, a melody-only version and a full version combining the accompaniment and melody. That way all schools can take part - and there were some pupils who did take part this year who had only been ringing for a matter of a few weeks! Carri Lee, Taylor, Paige, Morgan, Liam and Keegan from Avonbridge Primary School in Falkirk all took part after only ringing for a few weeks and all wrote about their experience of the event in the comments area of Glow for other schools to see: "We had a good time, we liked it a lot and wish we could go back." Lewis and Kristen from Bainsford Primary School in Bainsford also said of their experience: "We were very nervous because

we had only been practising a few weeks. Everyone was really nice and we had a good time. We like learning to play the belleplates." As an extra item this year Cameron Nisbet and Sarah Cameron, music tutors in Falkirk Council, led pupils in learning and accompanying a round where all of the pupils moved around the room to stand beside others from other schools who all had notes which formed part of the same musical chords. The grouped chord pupils used this as an ice-breaker and chance to meet others from other schools and then to accompany the song. Lisamarie and Kelly Marie from Slamannan Primary School in Falkirk said: "We enjoyed meeting pupils from other schools, and talking to them, and we liked singing and playing at the same time." We are very grateful to the headteacher of Newton Primary, for kindly making the school premises available for the event. Malcolm Wilson

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2011/2012 Committee
Contact details can be found on the contacts page of the HRGB Scotland website at www.hrgbscotland.org.uk

Chairman
Christine Reid 8 Havelock Street GLASGOW G11 5JA 0141 334 4412 c.reid@strath.ac.uk

Secretary
Marge Paterson 33 Barrhill Road CUMNOCK KA18 1PJ 01290 420769 paterson-j6@sky.com

Treasurer
Lynda Barclay 40 Stirling Drive Bearsden GLASGOW G61 4NT 0141 942 3595 gordon_lynda@btinternet.com

Sales Manager
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Committee Members
Elaine Duffus c/o Kaimhill School handchimes Pitmedden Terrace ABERDEEN AB10 7HR Ruth Cantlay 25 Craigdhu Road MILNGAVIE G62 7TN 0141 956 2496 eruth@fsmail.net Marge Paterson 33 Barrhill Road CUMNOCK Ayrshire 01290 420769 paterson-j6@sky.com John Elcock 4 Trabourn Cottages Elvingston HADDINGTON EH41 3SX 01875 853558 john@elcock.org

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Irene Duncan 15 Abbey Road SCONE Perthshire PH2 6LW 01738 552653

Liz Jamieson Ardmhor Cottage Ochiltree CUMNOCK KA18 2QH 01290 700314 iande@jamieson64c.demon.co.uk

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Newsletter Editor
Sue Wilson Lockerbie Cottage East End EARLSTON Berwickshire TD4 6HU 01896 849469 fswilson@btinternet.com

Honorary Life Members

Lysbeth Wilson Malcolm WilsonWebsite Administrator webadmin@hrgbscotland.org.uk

NEC Reps
Christine Reid Lynda Barclay

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Anne SmithArchivist 01224 318081 archives@hrgb.org.uk

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