The Essex Association of Change Ringers   President: The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Chelmsford

Please make sure your tower's 2021 Quarter Peal form* is with the Peals Secretary by 15th January 2022, by hand, post or email.

If you cannot find a form for 2021, copies (2021 pdf and editable 2021 rtf) are available for download, or send an email request to the .

In these continuing unprecedented times, with normal tower peals and quarters not restarting until the summer, I have been keeping an eye on Bellboard and noting any performances including Essex ringers during the year. There have been over 250 quarter peals in Ringing Room involving at least one Essex ringer and 150 tower and handbell quarters so far this year. As last year, I will include a brief separate analysis of these with the Quarter Peals Report and also listing the performances where at least half the ringers are in Essex (i.e. those where the ringing is 'mostly' in Essex). Unlike peals, quarter peals are not rung 'for' an association (though some use this field on Bellboard) so the practice has always been to include all quarter peals rung in the Association's area in the analysis and Annual Report as part of the formal record.

Forms for 2022 are available for download (2022 pdf and editable 2022 rtf), or via the EACR website (Latest News page), or on request from the .

*If you do not wish to use the form, any electronically readable list including all the required data (Tower, date, no. of changes, method & conductor plus any key milestone footnotes) is acceptable.

Colin Chapman
Peals Secretary
(Tuesday 21 December 2021)