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Featured performance

Trent Valley Association

Breadsall, Derbyshire

All Saints

Friday, 7 August 2026 in 2h 58 (13–3–21 in F♯)

5000 Bristol Surprise Royal

Composed by G H Campling (No 29)

1 R Philip Graves

2 Ruth Curtis

3 Jack E Page

4 Paul F Curtis

5 Ruth Jopp

6 George H Campling

7 Peter G C Ellis

8 Paul Jopp

9 Ian Roulstone (C)

10 Claire F Roulstone

4000th peal: 10

In memory of Elisabeth A G Bowden. Lis rang her first peal, here, on 2nd May 1953, and went on to become the first lady to ring 4000 peals.

Band, anticlockwise from front left. (Image: Ian Roulstone)

Lis, second from the right (Image: Ian Roulstone)

50th anniversary of Lis's first peal. (Image: Ian Roulstone)

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8 Aug 2026	Bristol (Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity)	5152 Cambridge Surprise Major
15 Aug 2026	Oxford (St Mary Magdalen)	1296 Cambridge Surprise Minor

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