Not The Dinner Day 2025

NTDD 2025 proved itself as one of the most popular events in the SRCY calendar once again, with the most members signed up for the dinner in recent years. Six peals were rung in London across the weekend, ranging from Pudsey Surprise Major to Spliced Cinques and Maximus. It was great to see so many of our newly-joined members participate in both the ringing and the curry consumption.

Sadly, this writer was unable to take part in any ringing that day due to work commitments, so joined everyone in the Crosse Keys once the ringing was done. Everyone, that is, except Mr D J Page, who was denied entry, having forgotten his ID. Ahh, to be young again! We reconvened in the Bangalore Express – our venue of choice – to once again enjoy their excellent range of curries and glacial beer delivery. A novel addition at the restaurant this year was ‘the boot’ – a vessel, shaped like a boot, which held three and a half pints of a lager of your choice. It’s great if you like your lager to gradually warm and flatten as you drink it, but I think the aficionados stuck with regular pint glasses. Also, beware the ramifications of physics if you hold ‘the boot’ the wrong way as you drain it…

Many thanks once again to Penny Sharpe for negotiating another excellent deal with the restaurant, and thanks and congratulations to all of the members who took part.

Ruth Corney

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Peals rung for Not The Dinner Day

Peals on Bellboard

6 peals so far have been rung for the Society Not The Dinner Day.

Kingston upon Thames, Greater London
All Saints
Sunday, 2 February 2025 in 3hrs 15mins (18-3-27 in Eb)
5042 Spliced Cinques and Maximus (3m/p)
Composed by M R Eccleston
3 methods: 2784 Stedman Cinques; 1154 Orion Surprise Maximus; 1104 Bristol Surprise Maximus; 16 com.

  1. Shirley E McGill
  2. Catherine E Morley
  3. David C Bath
  4. Benjamin D Constant
  5. Catherine N Merlane
  6. Evie Newton
  7. Jack E Page (C)
  8. Samuel C Cave
  9. Daniel J Page
  10. Ian Roulstone
  11. Alan Regin
  12. Claire F Roulstone

1000th tower bell peal: 7.

City of London,
St James Garlickhythe
Saturday, 1 February 2025 in 2hrs 48mins (9-1-25 in G#)
5024 Spliced Surprise Major (4m)
Composed by R R Horton
4 methods: 1344 Glasgow; 1248 London; 1216 Belfast, Bristol; 113 com; atw.

  1. David C Bath
  2. Claire F Roulstone
  3. Elizabeth A Hibbert
  4. Lucas J Williams
  5. Catherine N Merlane
  6. Christopher E J Kilgour
  7. Stephen A Wheeler
  8. Daniel J Page (C)

Hackney, Greater London
St John at Hackney
Saturday, 1 February 2025 in 2hrs 55mins (16-1-6 in F)
5040 Bristol Surprise Royal
Composed by D F Morrison

  1. Miles F E Baker
  2. Catherine E Morley
  3. Geraldine R Forster
  4. Shirley E McGill
  5. Penelope J V Sharpe
  6. Matthew L Dancy
  7. Andrew D Hodgson
  8. Evie Newton
  9. Jack E Page (C)
  10. Jimmy L Yeoman

A ‘Not the Dinner’ Day Peal.

Pimlico, Greater London
St Saviour
Saturday, 1 February 2025 in 2hrs 49mins (7-1-20 in G)
5024 Turramurra Surprise Major
Composed by Robert D S Brown

  1. John J Ford
  2. Barbara D Murray
  3. Peter W Emery
  4. Carole J Kendall
  5. Hana Booth
  6. Russell A Brown
  7. Samuel C Cave (C)
  8. Alan Regin

First peal for the Society:4
For SRCY Not the Dinner Day 2025

Wandsworth, Greater London
Holy Trinity, West Hill
Saturday, 1 February 2025 in 2hrs 53mins (15-0-2 in F#)
5088 Pudsey Surprise Major
Composed by Stanley Jenner

  1. Ian G Campbell
  2. Beryl R Norris
  3. Cynthia E Howell
  4. Jenny M Page
  5. Lucas J Williams
  6. Louise Read
  7. Daniel J Page (C)
  8. Claire F Roulstone

West Ham, Greater London
All Saints
Saturday, 1 February 2025 in 3hrs 25mins (26-1-23 in Eb)
5000 London No. 3 Surprise Royal
Composed by J S Warboys

  1. John P Loveless
  2. Jack E Page
  3. Theo A Johnson
  4. Matthew L Dancy
  5. Catherine E Morley
  6. Ian Roulstone (C)
  7. Jimmy L Yeoman
  8. Peter W Emery
  9. Alan Regin
  10. Nicholas D Brown

A Not the Dinner Day peal.