On Monday, 9th February 2009 at Shrewsbury, St Chad in 47 minutes

A Quarter Peal of 1280 Spliced Surprise Major

Four methods: 480 Rutland; 320 each Cambridge, Lincolnshire;
160 Yorkshire; 35 changes of method

Tenor 16-1-19 in F

John D Neal (Shrewsbury) Treble Alan M Glover (Shrewsbury) 5
Jacqueline C Barden (Shrewsbury) 2 Adrian G Roberts (Shrewsbury) 6
Gillian R Glover (Shrewsbury) 3 Nicholas J Green (Shrewsbury) (Cond) 7
Richard D Blagrove (Shrewsbury) 4 Mark Adams (Edgmond) Tenor

Rung on the light eight in F.

First quarter peal of Spliced Surprise Major - 2.

Rung to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin
at The Mount House, Shrewsbury on 12 February 1809.
Darwin was baptised in this church.

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