Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers

4 members of the Dove Team attended the 2025 DAC Bell Advisors' Conference in Leeds. It included a presentation concerning Dove and proposals for a review of bells listed for preservation. @ccringing

We have improved the way we display the date of a bell. Where undated, we display the founder's period of activity. When submitting an estimated date for a bell please don't provide anything outside the given period or alert us if you believe the period needs correcting.

We are pleased to announce the inclusion from today of LIGHTWEIGHT RINGS in Dove, which includes the portable rings. @ccringing

Pleased to welcome Ryan Faulkner-Hatt to the Dove Team. Ryan is a young ringer from Prittlewell in Essex has a particular interest in engineering and bell history. He has joined the team to work on a new project, more of which will be announced in due course.

Great news about the £4.68m Lottery grant to the @churchofengland Conservation Grants Scheme supporting bell conservation & other projects! Looking forward to seeing how the CBC works with this (I am on its Bells Committee). churchofengland.org/media/press-re… @ccringing

4 members of the Dove Team at today's annual meeting of the Central Council of Change Ringers in Exeter. @ccringing @DodgeNeal @dickonlove

@philtremain @dickonlove But that wouldn't be true to Ron's book. In practice you can do all of that now by changing the filters.

A great addition to Dove's Guide that we have been working on. Enjoy!

The Great Bells of the British Isles have now been incorporated into the Dove Database! Seen here: dove.cccbr.org.uk/bells?geo_regi… @ccringing

New mapping functionality announced! Map towers by tenor weight or by numbers of ringing reports in BellBoard! dove.cccbr.org.uk/news/339 @ccringing @theringingworld

Excited to launch my redesigned website on the Church Bells of Kent. Seeks to be a useful antiquarian resource in this field. kent.lovesguide.com

@spil030 @St_Matts_Bells Suggest you email the contact on this CCCBR page: shop.cccbr.org.uk

Does anyone know where to buy more Viggers "delight" ringers records books and sheets from these days? These used to be advertised in Ringing World. Looks like our tower (@St_Matts_Bells) last bought a set in about 1989 and its rather full now. @DovesGuide et al ? Thanks !

DOVE FOUNDRY FOCUS for Nov 2023 Projects marked as complete in the month, including Tedburn St Mary here. dove.cccbr.org.uk/projects?recent

We are pleased to welcome Kye Leaver to the team as our newest Dove Clerk! @KyeRinger

We've announced a major update in the way frames are recorded. dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?artic… @ccringing

We are pleased to welcome Neal Dodge to the Dove Team. He has already started processing updates, specialising in particular on the queue of frame updates. @DodgeNeal @ccringing

Bellframe information can now be interrogated on Dove's Guide dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?artic… @ccringing

We are sorry to hear of the death of Dove Master, the Rev'd John Baldwin. dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?artic…

Very pleased to welcome our newest member of the Dove Team. Lewis Benfield from Leics, has joined as a Dove Clerk to help analyse and update Dove with some of the many updates we are gratefully receiving.

Over 400 edits to Dove this weekend.

A new Dove feature to customise tower selections has been launched. Instructions on the home page. @ccringing