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 Friday 8 April, 1960, in 2 hours and 37 minutes

A peal of 5040 Minor (3 Methods)

Being one extent each of Oxford T.B. and Kent T.B., and five different extents of PlainBob.

Ringers:

1. Gordon Rothwell
2. John P. Partington
3. F. John Nelson
4. Allan Smith Jun
5. John Pilkington
6. Keith Abbott

Composed by …

Conducted by Keith Abbott

Footnotes:

First peal in three methods as conductor.
Rung to welcome Jeremy Amos, grandson of the Rev. R. E. Rodgers, Vicar of Saddleworth; also for the successful conclusion of the Christian Giving Campaign recently held in the parish.
Notes RW 1960 p 277