Shropshire Association

Shrewsbury, Shropshire - at the Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin

On Saturday, 15th February 1969, in 3 hours

A Peal of 5040 Grandsire Triples

Composed by J Bruerton

Tenor 19-2-10 in E flat

Frederick G Beddow Treble Ernest F Willcox 5
Gillian Bosworth-Smith 2 Philip R Johnson 6
Michael J Orman 3 Philip J Evans 7
Reginald H Newton 4 Alfred E G Owen Tenor

Conducted by Ernest F Willcox.

First peal of Grandsire Triples - 2, 3.
25th peal together - 5, 7.
First Grandsire Triples as conductor.

First of Triples on the bells for 105 years,
the last peal of Triples being rung on February 15th 1864.

540. RW3022.229 21.iii.1969