Simon Linford is the President of the Central Council, having previously been Master of the St Martins Guild Birmingham for about 10 years. Simon’s ringing has a very great breadth, from teaching ringing at the Birmingham School of Bell Ringing, being Tower Captain at St Mary’s Moseley, running the Brumdingers youth band, and then ringing very high-powered peals on all numbers. He has rung many record peals including calling record peals of spliced on up to 16 bells. He introduced the concept of Ringing Zones with a series of articles in the Ringing World, and has recently written “The Core Seven and Beyond, A Guide to Treble Dodging Minor Methods”
This entry was written in March 2023.
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