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A memorable day out ringing in Birmingham on the 16 at The Bull Ring and then the light 10 of St Pauls followed by am excellent Curry. Thanks to Liz and Greg for organising and running an excellent trip and to our Brummie friends for supporting us. Click on link below to see photo. 16/11/2025

Sunday Morning service ringing will be from 9:45 until 10:48. Evensong ringing at normal time (3.00-4.00pm GMT).

A Quarter peal of 1301 Stedman Cinques with a band consisting of all the current and 8 former officers of the Society was rung today (5/11/2025) to mark the 300th anniversary of the very first peal rung by the Society. The quarter was rung following loss of an attempt at 5300 Stedman Cinques. This first…

The Ely D.A. team featuring several regular members of the SCY band competed on he RBS competition at Stafford. Drawn 1st the band came a creditable 4th out of 8 teams from across the country.

2026 Peal Bookings for ringing at Great St Mary’s in Cambridge are opened. Peals slots are normally Saturday 09:00 – 14:00, or Thursday 17:00 – 21:00. If you are interested in booking peals at GSM, please contact Greg at master[@]scy.org.uk (Please remove the brackets around the @, which are included above to avoid email harvesting)…

An impressive performance propelled the SCY band to 4th place out of the 9 finalists at St Mary’s Redcliffe in Bristol. Winners were Bristol on their own bells which are much heavier than GSM. In all there were 27 competing bands this year across the qualifiers and final, with most of the finalist bands experienced…

All members of the congregation and bell ringers have been cordially invited by the church: “Please join us in the churchyard following the 10am service for cake and prosecco when we will be celebrating with the Society Cambridge Youths (the GSM bellringers) ……their 300th anniversary.“

Pleased to report that Greg Chu was unanimously elected as our New Master at the AGM on 3rd March 2025. We thank Dave Richards our outgoing Master after 3 years at the helm.

On Monday 2nd December we will be holding a short Ordinary Business Meeting followed by Mulled Wine and Mice Pies. There are two documents we will review at our meeting. One is an Interim Report on events held during 2024 and the other is the projected figures for the SCY accounts for 2024 including a…

John Bowtell (1753-1813) – elected SCY member 1773. Born in Cambridge, became a bookbinder, and noted bell ringer, he collected fossils, manuscripts, and other curiosities. Bequests included £500 to apprentice boys belonging to Hobson’s workhouse and shares to the value of £7,000 were left to enlarge Addenbrooke’s Hospital (founded 1766). Portrait of him (apparently now…