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First peal of Triples: 1.

Rung as a birthday compliment to J. Morgan, his brother-ringers wishing him many happy returns.

This is the longest peal yet rung by the Guild.

Source: Bell News, Vol.24, page 583.

A Wirral Branch peal

First peal of Stedman: 8

Messrs Smith and Godber were elected members of the above Guild previous to starting the peal

Bell News February 3rd 1906 No. 1244 Vol. XXIV page 573

First peal of Stedman on the bells

First peal of Stedman:

The Rev E V Cox and J Darlington were elected members of the above Guild previous to starting

Bell News February 3rd 1906 No. 1244 Vol. XXIV page 574

First peal: Benjamin Goddard.

Source: Bell News, Vol.24, page 585.

First peal in the method: Ernest Bailey.

Source: Bell News, Vol.24, no.1246, page 596.

First peal: 4

Bell News February 24th 1906 No. 1247 Vol. XXIV page 608

First peal: William Butler.

Source: Bell News, Vol.24, no.1248, page 622.

First peal of Major: 7.

First peal of Bob Major: 1, 2, 6.

First peal as conductor.

First peal of Stedman on the bells and by the band.

First peal for treble and 2nd.

Rung by members of the Bowden, Stockport and Mottram Branches.

BN 24.0669.

First peal of Stedman by all except the ringer of the 3rd.

First peal in the method on the bells.

Bell News April 14th 1906 No. 1254 Vol. XXV page 19

First peal in seven methods: 5.

Elected a member previous to starting: 3.

First peal of Major: 5.

Rung with the bells muffled as a mark of respect to Mr. E. Thompson, late church warden.

Source: Bell News, Vol.25, page 20.

Bell news, Vol 25 page 64

First peal in the method: 3 & 8

A tribute of respect for the memory of the wife of Mr Churchwarden Hall

First peal in the method: Thomas Ashton and William Marshall.

Source: Bell News, Vol.25, no.1258, page 64.

Conducted by the Rev. F.E. Robinson, Vicar of Drayton, Berks, and Master of the Oxford Diocesan Guild; this being his 1,059th peal.

First peal on the bells.

The above is as published in Bell News. See the peal report for April 9th, 1882 for the first reported peal rung on these bells: https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1508454

BN 25.0069.

First peal in the method: 2, 4, 8.

50th peal: 6.

Bell News, 19 May 1906, p. 80.

First peal: 1.

Source: Bell News, Vol.25, page 105.

BN 25.0129 and a peal board in the church

First peal: 1.

Rung as a tribute of respect to the late Alderman J. J. Cunnah, the bells being half-muffled,

First peal in the method: 1, 3.

First peal in the method: 1, 4.

First peal of Stedman on the bells.

First peal of Stedman on the bells.

First peal in the method: 8.

It is now over fifty years since the last peal of Stedman was rung on these bells.

First peal of Bob Major: 3, 4.

[Bell News (1st September 1906, vol. 225, p 260) gives the date as Saturday 24 August 1906. If the day is correct the date should be 25 August 1906. The 1906 Annual Report of the Chester Diocesan Guild gives 24 August as the date, but gives no day.] JDA

First peal in the method by all the band, first by the Guild, and is believed to be the first peal of Union Triples ever rung in the north-west of England.

First peal 1

First peal in the method as conductor.

First peal in the method on the bells.

Rung on the occasion of the marriage of Mr. Fredk. Weston, a ringer at the above church, to Miss Catherine Davies.

[No conductor is given but it was probably J W Davies.] JDA

Crewe Branch

Bell News November 24th 1906 No. 1286 Vol. XXV page 405

First peal: 1.

First peal with a bob bell: 4.

The ringers of the 3rd and 4th were members of the Winchester Cathedral band, and were elected members of the Guild before starting, and for whom the peal was arranged.

The Crewe Society

Note to peal - Bell News page 456

The peal at Crewe - C J Bowen-Cooke Esq. is the Loco Superintendent of the Running Department (Southern Division), London and North-Western Railway. It was his first peal, and was rung at the second attempt. He is also one of the Vice-presidents of the Chester Diocesan Guild (Crewe Branch), and takes a great interest in all matters appertaining to ringing. The whole of the band are employed by the London and North-Western Railway Company in the Loco. Department.

Bell News December 22nd 1906 No. 1290 Vol. XXV page 452