DDA Report - Q Peals

QUARTER PEAL REPORT | Quarter Peal Detail

This analysis and report is based upon quarter peals published in the Ringing World from issue 4788 to issue 4839. Therefore it does not include quarters, which for various reasons may not have been published. Neither does it include the thirty-two quarters, which should have been included in last year's report, but were published far too late, in some cases over a year after the performance, to be included in the analysis for 2003. However, since they included several first quarter pealers they are listed below with the other firsts for this year. Those people who make such comparisons will notice that the figures quoted for last year do not match last year's report. This is because of the considerable post-publication revision of last year's analysis occasioned by the late quarters. I have also included a quarter at Sudbury that I missed last year. I repeat again my plea from last year to conductors. Please endeavour to submit your performances to the RW within a reasonable period.

Where figures are quoted in brackets they are for previous years.

The number of quarter peals recorded for the year was 328 (328, 349, 327).

District	2003	2002	2001	2000
Chesterfield	42 at 26 towers	22 at 13	39 at 22	33 at 19
Derby	160 at 26 towers	156 at 21	197 at 32	154 at 32
Ilkeston	17 at 7 towers	13 at 7	13 at 7	35 at 11
Peak	59 at 20 towers	98 at 32	66 at 27	55 at 22
Other	40 at 29 towers	25 at 23	20 at 16	28 at 23
Handbells	10 at 7venues	14 at 7	14 at 3	25 at 10
Total	328 at 115 venues	328 at 103	349 at 107	327 at 117

Towers

The number of Association towers at which quarter peals were rung was 79 (88, 84, 62). The leading towers and their totals are listed below.

Derby Cathedral	33	(38, 36, 13)	Eyam	13	(10, 0, 2)
Brailsford	25	(31, 12, 3)	Belper, St. Peter	11	(11, 2, 3)
Derby, St. Peter	18	(30, 32, 32)	Belper, Campanile	10	(4)
Etwall	13	(10, 12, 8)

Conductors

There were 56 (65, 69, 65) conductors recorded. The leading conductors with their totals for the year are below.

Alec Humphrey	61	(52, 61, 48)
Geoff Goodall	50	(24, 7, 0)
John Heaton	32	(56, 23, 13)	Includes 1 in hand (1, 0, 0)
Mary Cox	20	(12, 8, 0)
Pat Halls	17	(3, 8, 14)
John Cater	14	(15, 32, 40)	Includes 8 in hand (9, 12, 19)

Ringers

A total of 296 (305, 355, 373) quarter peal ringers took part in performances recorded during the period. The ten leading quarter peal ringers with their totals for the year are: -

Alec Humphrey	100	(85, 106, 110)	Includes 0 in hand (0, 0, 1)
Chris Willis	79	(45, 56, 37)	Includes 1 in hand (1, 7, 5)
Gill Hughes	71	(59, 87, 94)	Includes 8 in hand (11, 12, 20)
Geoff Goodall	69	(44, 12, 1)	Includes 1 in hand (1, 0, 0)
Eileen Goodall	65	(39, 11, 1)
John Cater	64	(37, 64, 100)	Includes 8 in hand (1, 12, 22)
Graeme Hughes	61	(58, 82, 83)
James Franklin	58	(32, 16, 8)
John Heaton	50	(68, 42, 23)	Includes 1 in hand (2, 1, 1)
Pat Halls	48	(46, 55, 46)	Includes 1 in hand (6, 5, 6)

The following ringers rang their first quarter peal – congratulations to all of them.

Ivan Bird at Ticknall 23rd Nov 2002 Rosemary Botham at Ticknall 23rd Nov 2002

Hannah Akers at Sutton on the Hill 21st Feb Steve Payne at Church Gresley 4th May

Nina Morley at Long Eaton 8th June Maureen Holbrook at Long Eaton 30th July

Michael Laurence at Horsley 15th August

I would also like to offer belated congratulations to the following ringers who each rang their first quarter peal in 2002 though they did not appear in the RW until one year later: -

John F Baldwin at Brassington on 15th May 2002

Ruth Kime and Mike Taylor at Disley on 3rd June 2002

Christine Tunnicliffe at Fairfield on 7th June 2002

Just 20% (19%) of people ringing quarters rang ten or more quarter peals, and 62% (63%) rang less than three.

	2003		2002
1 quarter rung	106	37%	108	35%
2 quarters rung	46	16%	54	18%
3 quarters rung	27	9%	31	10%
4quarters rung	22	7%	17	6%
5 quarters rung	10	3%	14	4%
6-9quarters rung	24	8%	23	8%
10-19quarters rung	31	10%	24	8%
20-29quarters rung	14	5%	11	4%
30 or more quarters rung	16	5%	21	7%
Total ringers	296	100%	305	100%

Amongst the many personal milestones achieved during the year were: -

50th quarter	Rex North	At Brailsford 12th December
100th quarter	Steve Harpham	At Shardlow 25th July
2500th quarter	John Cater	At Belper 30th July
40th as conductor	Mary Cox	At Brailsford 15th December
200th together	John Booth & Alec Humphrey	At Rolleston 14th November
200th together	Chris Willis & Alec Humphrey	At Alvaston 11th December
300th together	Gill Hughes, Graeme Hughes & Alec Humphrey	At Kirkby 28th November

Methods Rung

Minimus 1 (3)	Plain Bob 0 (1), Multi-method 1 (2)
Doubles 72 (95)	Plain Bob 33 (61), Grandsire 18 (12), Multi-method 17 (18), Others 4 (4)
Minor 136 (123)	Plain Bob 34 (55), Other Plain 23 (16), Multi-method 16 (11), Cambridge 12 (9), Other treble dodging 51 (32)
Triples 30 (41)	Plain Bob 7 (10), Grandsire 13 (16), Multi-method 0 (2), Others 10 (13)
Major 67 (49)	Plain Bob 9 (9), Grandsire 2 (1), DNCBM 8 (9), Multi-method 7 (10), Cambridge 5 (7), Others 36 (13)
Caters 11 (5)	Plain Bob 0 (2) Grandsire 8 (2), Stedman 3 (1)
Royal 9 (11)	Plain Bob 2 (2), Grandsire 1 (0), Cambridge 2 (2), Multi-method 0 (1), Others 4 (6)
Cinques 2 (0)	Grandsire 1 (0), Stedman 1 (0)
Maximus 0 (1)	Plain & Little Bob 0 (1)
Total 328 (328)	Plain Bob 85 (140), Grandsire 43 (31), Multi-method 41 (45), Others 159

Special Performances

Commemorative quarters were rung to celebrate the lives of Marjorie Phipps, John Marshall and Derek Camm. The weddings of Teresa Wyke and Paul Vincent at Netherseal, Carol Walsh & Peter Browne at Overseal, and Meriel Hughes and Andrew Gainsbury of Derby Cathedral were celebrated with quarters; as were the births of Eleanor Humphrey (daughter of Simon of Darley Dale) and James Wiltshire (son of Pat & Matthew, both of Derby St Peter). A band ringing, over a period of three years, quarters for evening services at Etwall, completed an alphabet of delight minor methods from Antarctica to Zuzzex.