On Sunday, 21 October 2018 at Shrewsbury, St Chad, in 48 minutes

A Quarter Peal of 1280 Superlative Surprise Major

Tenor 16–1–19 in F

John D Neal (Shrewsbury) Treble Gillian R Glover (Shrewsbury) 5
Amanda R Craig (Shrewsbury) 2 Brian S B Kear (Shrewsbury) 6
Jacqueline C Barden (Shrewsbury) 3 Nicholas J Green (Unattached) (Cond) 7
Jad Bienek (Unattached) 4 Alan M Glover Tenor

Rung on the light eight prior to Evensong on World Earthworm Day
in the church of Charles Darwin’s baptism. Darwin's final book,
'The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms’,
explores the importance of earthworms and was published in 1881
shortly before his death in 1882.

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