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Quarter Peals

For each performance, following the tower's name and location are given the number of bells in the tower and the weight and strike note of the Tenor (the heaviest bell in the ring). Where the exact weight of the Tenor is known it is given in the traditional way using the British imperial units of Hundredweight, Quarters and Pounds (cwt-qtr-lb) in which there are 28 pounds in a quarter, four quarters in a hundredweight, and 20 hundredweight in a ton (one hundredweight is approximately equal to 50.8 kilograms); otherwise it is estimated to the nearest quarter of a hundredweight.

If not all of the bells in the tower were used for a particular performance – such as when ringing six bells at an eight-bell tower – it should be assumed that the ringing took place on the heaviest or "back" bells, unless the footnote to the performance states otherwise.

Note that my own name appears in bold text for no other reason than to make it easier to spot.

109. Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
St Peter, Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire (6, 14-1-11 in E)

1320 changes of Bourne Surprise Minor in 47 minutes.

  1. Brian W S Angell
  2. Nicholas W Bowden
  3. Nicola J Williams
  4. Thomas K Cook
  5. Robert Perry
  6. Martin S Pearson

Conducted by Martin S Pearson.

To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the World Speed Record for steam traction, set by LNER Gresley Class A4 Pacific No.4468 "Mallard" on 3rd July 1938.
As a young boy the Conductor spent a year living in Bourne, Lincolnshire, just six miles from the railway line where the record was set nearly 50 years earlier.

First blows in method: 6
First Quarter Peal in method: 4

No.33 of the "Frampton 50", celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the restoration of the bells.