Current Tower Officers

Contact details

Tower Foreman – John Harrison 

John grew up in Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire where he learnt to ring in 1959. He was tower captain briefly before studying and ringing for three years in Cambridge. He married and moved to Wokingham in 1967. He has held most tower offices at All Saints, and is also active in the wider world of ringing training, running courses at Deanery, Diocesan and national level. He is a member of the Central Council of Church Bellringers served on its Education Committee for 14 years and and was chairman from 2000-2007. He is Training Co-ordinator for Sonning Deanery. From 1999-2007, he wrote a monthly column on training in The Ringing World, now published in four volumes, has written three other books on ringing, and produced other training aids. He received a Civic Award from the Mayor of Wokingham in 2006, for services to the community through bellringing.
 

 Deputy Foreman – Steve Smith

Steve Smith started ringing in 1963 in Southampton, having originally heard the sound of church bells as a small boy drifting across the town of Keynsham, spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M (for those who remember Radio Luxembourg). He's a member of the Oxford University Society and joins in each year with their 'Golden Oldies' reunion tour. He's lived in Wokingham since 1983 and has been actively involved in the All Saints tower ever since.
 

Ringing Master – Nigel Mellor

  Details to be added
 

Secretary – Mary Spence

 Mary first learned to ring as a teenager at Arundel in West Sussex. She rang basic methods at Arundel and nearby towers for about ten years before she stopped ringing due to work and other commitments. It wasn’t until her retirement in 2005 that she came back to ringing and joined the All Saints band. After such a long break she found it hard at first to learn new methods (and relearn the old ones!) and was grateful to the other members of the band for their help and patience.
 

Treasurer – Jon Tutcher

  Jon grew up in Somerset and learnt to ring in Ilminster (23cwt 8) in 1967 (ringing lots of Grandsire Triples and call changes!) He studied at London University where he rang for a couple of years as a ULSCR member. Jon moved to Wokingham in 1977 and started ringing with the All Saints band in 1980, becoming a member in 1981. He has previously held all tower offices: Foreman and Secretary (twice each) and Deputy Foreman and Steeple keeper.
 

 Steeple Keeper (looks after the hardware) – Mhairi Miller

Mhairi first learnt to ring at All Saints in 2004, when she was 11. Her Godparents were bell ringers and Mhairi wanted to try it out and then she found she really liked it. She rang her first quarter peal in 2007 and her first peal in 2009. She is currently at school studying for her A-Levels. She attended a bell maintenance course when she was 14, and has always helped out with the maintenance in the tower. Now she is delighted that she is the Steeple Keeper.