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Chester Diocesan Guild

Grappenhall, Cheshire

St Wilfrid

Sunday, 3 December 2023 (4–1–15 in D)

1272 Surprise Minor (7m)

(1) 720 Spliced Surprise Minor - 72 each Berwick, Cambridge, Primrose; 144 each Hexham, Surfleet; 216 Beverley. (2) 552 Norwich Surprise

1 Alison K C Collins

2 Linda M Thomson

3 Ian M Ward

4 David J Pigg

5 Graeme A Littler

6 Nicholas Thomson (C)

To mark the 125th anniversary of the first peal of Surprise rung for the Chester Diocesan Guild on 3rd December 1898 in this tower on the old six (prior to augmentation to 8) by a Grappenhall band.

Today's quarter was also rung by a Grappenhall Sunday Service band.

£6.00

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First submitted Sunday, 3 December 2023 at 19:02:47 by Nicholas Thomson.

Sent for publication in The Ringing World on Sunday, 3 December 2023 at 19:02:58, and printed in issue 5877, page 1266.

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