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 Yorkshire Association

Tenor 12 cwt

On Saturday 20 October, 1894, in 3 hours and 0 minutes

A Peal of 5040 Treble Bob Minor (7 Methods)

720 changes each:- Duke of York, Yorkshire Delight, Kent Treble Bob, Merchants’Return, New London Pleasure, Oxford and Violet.

Ringers

1. Edward Dawson
2. Joseph Radcliffe
3. John Holden
4. James Radcliffe
5. Joseph Wood
6. Thomas B. Dicken

Composed by –

Conducted by John Holden

Footnotes

E. Dawson hails from Meltham; Radcliffe (2) and Wood fromSaddleworth; Holden and Dicken from Mossley.
Notes BN 1894 p 273