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First Cambridge Surprise Minor: 2

First Triples inside: 3

First on 10: 6, 10

Circled the tower: 1

First Surprise Minor inside: 3

30th birthday compliments to Matthew W Thewsey (The Modern Society of Plymouth Youths)

First of Major: 1

First of Yorkshire: 3

With birthday compliments to the treble ringer

First Quarter: 6

First spliced: 4

First current* members this Academic Year

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Settle and Carlisle railway I think

1st QP - 8

1st QP as conductor for the society - 7

25th QP - 3

Super Off Peak Day Single(s): 3.3.3.3.3,1

First on 3: 2, 1

650th for the Guild

First Peal: 3,5,6

First as Conductor

Birthday compliments to Emily E Hall

Wishing Alex Addy's lower back well

Rung to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Priesthood of Father Daniel, priest here at this church

The variation 50xz (Gedney Hill Place with a YCG Bob) is rung for the first time. The band would like to name this variation "Father Daniel's Silver Jubilee Of Priesthood Doubles".

First Anticlockwise Quarter: 1, 3, 4, 6

First post-crutches: 2

Most exciting lunch break: 5

First Quarter: 6

First away from cover: 1

First as conductor of spliced

First of spliced minor: 3

Tower Circular: 2

Method rung for the first time:

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First qp while scrolling reels: 1

First in method for all

The band would like to associate William M Regan with this quarter peal

Alces Alces Shirasi: 34.14.34.14.34.14,-

Baby's first minimus: 2

First minimus inside: 4

Celebrating successfully building it

First double handling for all

First method rang named after his hometown - 2

In memorium of letting students loose on a mini-ring.

With best wishes to William M Regan (Friend) for his shift on an LNER train

First method double-handed for all

Rung in memory of 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Douglas Gillespie, Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed in action at the Battle of Loos on the 25th September 1915.

Gillespie is remembered for his letters from the Front, his most famous letter, from the 14th June 1915, outlines a vision of what to do with the Western Front after the war. Gillespie envisioned a Via Sacra:

"These fields are sacred in a sense, and I wish that when the peace comes, our government might combine with the French Government to make one long avenue between the lines from the Vosges to the sea, or, if that is too much, at any rate from La Bassée to Ypres. The ground is so pitted and scarred, and torn with shells, and tangled with wire, that it will take years to bring it back to use again; but I would make a fine broad road in the No Man's Land between the lines, with paths for pilgrims on foot, and plant trees for shade, and fruit trees, so that the soil should not be altogether waste. Some of the shattered farms and houses might be left as evidence, and the regiments might put up their records beside the trenches which they held all through the winter. Then I would like to send every man, woman and child in Western Europe on pilgrimage along that Via Sacra, so that they might think and learn what war means from the silent witnesses on either side. A sentimental idea, perhaps, but we might make it the most beautiful road in all the world."

This idea has since been realised, and is now a recognised walking route between the French/Swiss border and the Belgian coast. The Conductor walked various parts of Gillespie's Via Sacra during the week running up to this peal.

First on 8: 8.

First inside: 2.