In bell ringing, a ‘peal’ is a period of ringing, usually lasting around three hours and with over 5000 changes – all rung from memory of the method ‘blue line’. They are often rung for special occasions and commemorated with boards in towers.

The United Counties Associations

Tenor 12 cwt

On Monday 15 April, 1889, in 2 hours and 58(1/2) minutes

A Peal of 5040 Treble Bob Minor (7 Methods)

Being a 720 each of the following:- Duke of York, Yorkshire Delight, Kent, Merchant’s Return, New London Pleasure, Oxford and Violet

Ringers

1. Joseph W. Shaw
2. Jonathan Pilling
3. Joseph Radcliffe
4. Franklin Brierley
5. James Dicken
6. John T. Dicken

Composed by Jonathan Pilling

Conducted by Franklin Brierley

Footnotes

First peal as conductor.
Rung as a farewell peal to the conductor, who is leaving England to take up his abode in America, his brother-ringers wishing him every success in his new home. The brothers Dicken and J. W. Shaw hail from Friezland; the rest are of the local company.
Notes BN 1889 p 38