The Climsland Peal was so christened by Robin Hall after the circumstances of its conception. It was on the Cambridge University Guild Week in 1990, based in Stoke Climsland, when I was invited to call a peal of Stedman Triples, and I decided to sit down in the bar and knock one up. Once I started everything seemed to fall into place quite easily and the resultant peal became my favourite (this was before Johnson's 10-part came along).
I started with Hudson's 60 courses:
Block A: 231456 S H 356412 x x 512463 x x 163425 x x 625431 x x 231456 x x
and similar blocks starting from
514236 (B) 342516 (C) 125346 (D) 453126 (E) 152436 (F) 435216 (G) 213546 (H) 541326 (I) 324156 (J) 415632 (K) 251634 (L)
I wanted the peal to finish with s14, s2, which means the
course between the singles is 524361 , which is course 613452
rung backwards. We must therefore remove the calls at S and H from this
course. The calls at S join 613452 (in block F) and 512463
(A), while those at H join 613452 (F) and 163425
(A). The corresponding calls in these two courses must also be removed, and the
effect of these changes is to join the remaining courses in blocks A and F into
a single block:
231456 S H 356412 x x 512463 x x 152436 x 536421 x x 321465 x x 265413 x x 163425 x 625431 x x 231456 x x
But the plain sixes introduced by removing the calls at S are false
against courses 251634 (L) and 361524 (H) .
Calls at L must be added in these courses to prevent falseness, and so join
these blocks. Similarly calls at Q must be added in courses 462135
(J) and 415632 (K) . By this means both of the blocks with
the 6th fixed have been joined to others.
Now what happens if we try to make a 5-part peal with the 6th fixed at the part-ends? If there are to be only two singles we cannot omit both the S and H in any of the other parts, or we have more than one plain course to single in, so consider omitting just those at S . These join blocks (B,G), (C,H), (D,I) and (E,J). The corresponding calls that have to be added at L join block L in turn to blocks I, J, F and G. Magically, the other 59 courses have been linked into a single block, leaving one to be singled in at the end.
231456 S H L Q 356412 x x 512463 x x 152436 x 536421 x x 321465 x x 145623 x x x 563241 x x x a 641235 x [x 461253 x] 653214 x x 514236 x x 5-part. Add the following block at "a" in part 4 only: (462135) S H L Q 415632 x 132645 x x 354621 x x 521643 x x 243615 x x 462135 x x x Omit bracketed calls in part 5, and add s14, s2 to last course. First rung at Ruislip, St Martin, 19/1/91.
A similar composition can be found by omitting only the calls at H . This is left as an exercise for the reader.
So what happened to the peal at Stoke Climsland? Chris Rogers told me after we stopped that I had called a block of three at one point. Still, it has been a regular feature of subsequent Guild Weeks, appearing every year from 1991 to 1996 except for Lancashire in 1992. I also believe that the longest time that Stedman Triples has been rung with bobs only and without a repeated row is during a performance of the peal (3h46 at Sherborne).
Now that I have circled the composition, it will probably be retired to attempts without rock-solid bands.
This page created by Philip Saddleton
Last updated 2nd March 1999