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

The Lancashire Association

Tenor 10 cwt. 1 qr. 6 lb. in G

On Saturday 30 May, 1959, in 2 hours and 56 minute

A peal of 5000 Little Bob Major

Ringers

1. Joan Ward
2. Edward Jenkins
3. Frederick Shallcross
4. Roger Maher
5. John P. Partington
6. Keith Abbott
7. A. Peter Whitehead
8. Alan Ward

Composed by H. W. Wilde

Conducted by Edward Jenkins

Footnotes:

First peal in the method:- 1, 3, 4, 6, 7.
25th peal:- 5
A 21st birthday compliment to Miss M. Helen Wright, of Ashton-under-Lyne, at present a student at London University.
Notes RW 1959 p 409