Waldron, East Sussex
All Saints
Friday, 14 November 2008 in 2hrs 51mins (12-0-7)
5056 Cambridge Surprise Major
Composed by Charles Middleton
Ashchurch, Gloucestershire
St Nicholas
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 40mins (11-2-24)
5120 Spliced Surprise Major
Composed by Stanley Jenner
5 methods: 1280 Cambridge, Superlative, 960 Bristol, 800 London, Rutland, 135 changes of method.
Beeston, Nottinghamshire
St John the Baptist
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 0mins (17-1-14)
5040 Southwell Surprise Royal
Composed by John H Fielden
Bristol, Bristol
St Stephen the Martyr
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 13mins (19-1-17)
5042 Yorkshire Surprise Maximus
Composed by J Alan Ainsworth
Broadclyst, Devon
St John the Baptist
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 6mins (20-0-25)
5056 Bristol Surprise Major
Composed by Anthony J Cox
Claverley, Shropshire
All Saints
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 9mins (15-1-7)
5024 Lincolnshire Surprise Major
Composed by Donald F Morrison
No.1233
Claybrooke, Leicestershire
St Peter
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 59mins (13-3-10)
5152 Bristol Surprise Major
Composed by Richard J Angrave
No.4
Clifton, Bedfordshire
All Saints
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 53mins (10-0-6)
5056 Cambridge Surprise Major
Composed by Charles Middleton
Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire
St Michael
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 52mins (9-3-0)
5056 Cornwall Surprise Major
Composed by Donald F Morrison
Hinckley, Leicestershire
St Mary
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 5mins (22-0-6)
5040 Grandsire Triples
Composed by Joseph J Parker
Twelve part
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America
Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 49mins (9-0-16)
5088 Superlative Surprise Major
Composed by Nathan J Pitstow
Kettering, Northamptonshire
SS Peter & Paul
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 11mins (21-1-2)
5040 Cytringan Surprise Royal
Composed by James Clatworthy
Longstanton, Cambridgeshire
All Saints
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 49mins (7-2-11)
5088 Lessness Surprise Major
Composed by Stanley Jenner
New York, New York, United States of America
Trinity Church
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 5mins (23-3-17)
5060 Plain Bob Cinques
Composed by Donald F Morrison
No.2849
Newmarket, Suffolk
Mindinho le Tower Campanile
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 30mins (0-0-9)
5040 Yorkshire Surprise Royal
Composed by Anthony J Cox
Norton, Hertfordshire
St Nicholas
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 55mins (9-0-2)
5184 Ealing Surprise Major
Composed by Stanley Jenner
Norwich, Norfolk
St George Colegate
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 30mins (9-2-24)
5040 Surprise Minor
7 methods: One extent each of Norfolk, Cambridge, Beverley, Surfleet, London, Wells and Norwich.
Oxford, Oxfordshire
St Thomas the Martyr
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 46mins (11-2-6)
5079 Stedman Caters
Composed by J M Hadley Hunter
Petworth, Sussex
St Mary
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 55mins (18-0-9)
5024 Lessness Surprise Major
Arranged by James W Belshaw
Rendham, Suffolk
St Michael
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 53mins (10-2-21)
5090 Yorkshire Surprise Major
Composed by Stephen D Pettman
Shap, Cumbria
St Michael
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 40mins (7-2-19)
5040 Cambridge Surprise Minor
7 extents
Southampton, Hampshire
The Church of the Ascension, Bitterne Park
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 51mins (8-1-13)
5040 Yorkshire Surprise Royal
Composed by Peter W J Sheppard
St Albans, Hertfordshire
St Peter
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 15mins (24-0-3)
5055 Stedman Caters
Composed by Robert E J Dennis
Arranged by Donald F Morrison
Warnham, Sussex
St Margaret
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 2mins (14-2-11)
5080 Yorkshire Surprise Royal
Composed by Robert W Lee
No.1
West Malling, Kent
St Mary the Virgin
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 54mins (10-1-9)
5056 Cassiobury Surprise Major
Composed by Stanley Jenner
Withyham, East Sussex
St Michael and All Angels
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 2hrs 53mins (15-0-9)
5120 Bristol Surprise Major
Composed by Anthony J Cox
Wrotham, Kent
St George
Saturday, 15 November 2008 in 3hrs 9mins (20-0-10)
5120 Bristol Surprise Major
Composed by Alan G Reading
Arranged by Graham M Bradshaw
Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire
St John the Baptist
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 39mins (7-2-7)
5024 Rutland Surprise Major
Composed by David W Beard
Campton, Bedfordshire
All Saints
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 30mins (6-2-10)
5058 Lincolnshire Surprise Major
Composed by Donald F Morrison
City of London, Cheapside
St Mary le Bow
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 3hrs 27mins (41-3-21)
5040 Avon Delight Maximus
Composed by Peter Border
Edinburgh, Lothian
St Andrew and St George
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 57mins (14-2-23)
5040 Surprise Minor
5 methods: (1) London, (2) Wells, (3) London, Wells, (4) Beverley, (5) Surfleet, (6) Beverley, Surfleet, (7) Cambridge.
Great Hampton, Worcestershire
St Andrew
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 49mins (12-2-4)
5088 Bristol Surprise Major
Composed by Ian R Fielding
Grundisburgh, Suffolk
St Mary the Virgin
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 55mins (9-2-24)
5050 Yorkshire Surprise Royal
Composed by Brian E Whiting
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America
Kalamazoo College
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 31mins (15)
5088 Kent Treble Bob Major
Composed by William Hudson
Keele, Staffordshire
Woodlands
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 3mins (0-3-19)
5040 Treble Dodging Minor
7 methods: One extent each of Oxford Treble Bob, London, Wells, York, Durham, Cambridge and Norwich Surprise.
Market Deeping, Lincolnshire
27 Shackleton Close
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 44mins (15)
5040 Plain Bob Royal
Composed by Roy LeMarechal
Oxford, Oxfordshire
St Mary Magdalen
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 50mins (7-1-12)
5040 Cambridge Surprise Royal
Composed by PWJ Sheppard
Terling, Essex
All Saints
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 49mins (11-1-13)
5088 Uxbridge Surprise Major
Composed by Donald F Morrison
No.2056
Watford, Hertfordshire
15 Harford Drive
Sunday, 16 November 2008 in 2hrs 22mins (14 in C#)
5088 Yorkshire Surprise Major
Composed by John S Warboys
Marietta, Georgia, United States of America
St James
Monday, 17 November 2008 in 2hrs 29mins (5-1-5)
5040 Minor
3 methods: 2 extents of Cambridge Surprise, St Clement's College Bob, 3 extents of Plain Bob.
Northallerton, North Yorkshire
All Saints
Monday, 17 November 2008 in 3hrs 1min (17-2-15)
5002 Bristol Surprise Royal
Composed by David G Hull
No.11
Shoreditch, Middlesex
St Leonard
Tuesday, 18 November 2008 in 3hrs 16mins (25-1-11)
5042 Cambridge Surprise Maximus
Composed by David G Hull
To mark the 80th anniversary of the first peal of Surprise Maximus for the Society, which was on 17th November 1928 in this tower.
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