Janus: Records of the Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers

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Records of the Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers

Title	Records of the Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers
Reference	GBR/0265/SOC.84 (former reference: Ms.Add.8253)
Creator	Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers
Covering Dates	1879–2005
Extent and Medium	2 metres; paper, photographs
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

Content and context

At its foundation on 4 February 1879 the guild was known as the Clare Association of Ringers. Just six days after foundation the name was altered to the Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers by the first set of guild rules, presumably to reflect the election of members from colleges other than Clare. In 1884 the clergyman and campanologist Woolmore Wigram (Trinity College) was elected as an honorary member. The guild predominantly practised method change ringing rather than call change ringing. In September each year the guild arranged a week away known as ''Annual ringing week'' or ''Guild week''. Since at least 1957 the principal practice and service ringing tower for the guild has been St Andrew the Great, Cambridge.

Further information about the club's activities is on its website at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cugcr/. Additionally, there is a personal website run by a former club member, Philip Andrew Bruce Saddleton (Trinity College), on which compiled statistics about the guild's touches, peals and bands are posted: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/saddleton/cugcr/index.htm.

The records were transferred to the University Archives from the Manuscripts Department on 31 January 2008. The bulk of the material was deposited on permanent loan by the Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers with the Manuscripts Department on 16 November 1979. SOC.84.23 was deposited at an unknown date. Further deposits were made in 1992, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2006. All were given the classmark Ms.Add.8253. Accession dates and depositor names for individual items may be obtained from the University Archives.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Records of the Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers, SOC.84

Further information

Further printed records are in the Rare Books Department, Cambridge University Library (classmark: Cambridge Papers J 4386, and Cambridge Papers 2nd series, Societies 400).

Some of material was listed by Christopher Michael Paley Johnson (St John's College) at the time of the 2006 deposit. Former reference codes indicate the order in which the collection was arranged in his list. The online catalogue entry for Janus was completed in February 2008 and emended September 2008.

Index Terms

Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers

University/SOC.84 contains:

SOC.84.1

Minutes of business, annual general, guild week and committee meetings, signed.
10 volumes; paper.

1879–2000

SOC.84.2

Treasurer's and junior treasurer's accounts, generally signed.
3 volumes; paper.

1882–2005

SOC.84.3

Treasurer's annual presentation accounts, 1953-4 and 1961-2. The 1953-4 account is accompanied by a ?draft treasurer's report.
3 items in a file; paper.

1953–1962

SOC.84.4

Secretary's petty cash receipt and expenditure account. From 1954 the volume has been used to record ?some individual subscription payments by members.
1 notebook; paper.

10 Apr. 1952–12 Mar. 1963

SOC.84.5

Master's expense account. The sums paid are primarily for postage and telephone calls.
1 notebook; paper.

28 Apr. 1956–3 Mar. 1961

SOC.84.6

Address book. This item appears to have been used as a membership register but may also include some club contacts.
1 notebook; paper.

1950–1969

SOC.84.7

Chronological list of successful peal attempts from 28 April 1890-28 February 1991. The list records the guild's peal serial number; date; location; if hand or tower bells were used; method name; and initials of ?conductor.
Creator: Saddleton, Philip Andrew Bruce.
1 item; paper.

1991

SOC.84.8

Peal registers.
5 ring binders now 5 folders; paper.

1934–1989

SOC.84.9

''Peal cards''.
2 items; paper.

1894–1971

SOC.84.10

Records of peals and touches.
10 volumes; paper, photographs.

1881–1996

SOC.84.11

Bell ringing practice attendance register.
1 notebook; paper.

1879–1885

SOC.84.12

Photographs.
13 photographs, 1 album; photograph, paper.

1880–1957

SOC.84.13

Register of bell weights and inscriptions. This volume is largely blank. The entries are for church bells in East Anglia and the south east.
1 volume; paper.

1930–1949

SOC.84.14

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings and ephemera. The file includes correspondence between members, circulars and printed ephemera from guild social events.
1 file; paper.

1942–1979

SOC.84.15

Letter from an unidentified writer to [T.P.] Hearn (Selwyn College) re the calling for a Bob Major method known as TAPA TAPA.
2 pages; paper.

22 Apr. 1940

SOC.84.16

Programmes for annual ringing week tours. There are programmes from 1951; 1953-60; 1963-5; 1971; 1980-3 and three undated programmes circa mid 1980s.
1 file; paper.

1951–1986

SOC.84.17

Prize draw tickets issued by the guild in aid of the ''G.S.A. Bellfund''. The ''G.S.A. Bellfund'' was probably a fund for the refounding of the bells at St Andrew the Great, Cambridge.
1 item; paper.

1960

SOC.84.18

Circulars. These circulars provide information on club ringing and social activities. There is also a memorial to Arthur Cecil Blyth (Selwyn College, president from 1936-60), 1961.
1 file; paper.

1961–1980

SOC.84.19

Centenary dinner seating plan.
1 item (686 x 1018), rolled; paper.

17 Mar. 1979

SOC.84.20

Handlist of the guild's archives.
1 page; paper.

1922

SOC.84.21

Correspondence of A.C. Blyth re the housing of a bequest of bell-ringing books by William Carter Pearson (Clare College, B.A. 1882) to the Cambridge University Library for the use of the guild, early 1940s. The main correspondents are members of the guild; Gotelee and Goldsmith Solicitors, Norwich; Cambridge University Library; and the British Museum. . Additionally the file contains some 1920s and 1930s draft lists of books (some items in which are marked ''C.U.L.'') and some 1942 correspondence re the compilation of a list of guild members serving in the Second World War.
1 file; paper.

1920–1942

SOC.84.22

Pamphlet by E.J. Lindley and W.T. Cook entitled ''A History of the Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers, Volume II, 1929-1954''. The pamphlet is accompanied by a draft of the text, a list of peals 1930-54 and ringing statistics for 1954.
1 pamphlet; paper.

1954

SOC.84.23

Draft of a speech by an unidentified speaker re the history of change ringing. A copy of a minute re the death of A.H.F. Boughey from the first Michaelmas term meeting of 1936 is enclosed.
1 file; paper.

1930–1939