A round-up of people’s bellringing firsts, as found on Bellboard.

First rounds

• Jo Lowe at Desford on 9th September.

first quarters

• James Ellis (aged 9 yrs 93 days) ringing the tenor to doubles at Packington on 4^th July
• Nicholas J J Burbage ringing treble to grandsire doubles at Sharnford on 18^th September
• Steph Bruce ringing tenor to doubles at Medbourne on 18^th September
• Colin Hearne ringing tenor to doubles at Ratby on 19^th September

first peal

• Harry J Thompson (treble) and Caroline S Stewart (tenor) ringing doubles at Packington on 19^th September

first in method

• Paul Standley ringing London Surprise Minor at Sapcote on 26^th July
• Ian Maynard Smith ringing 8 spliced at Ratby on 16^th August
• Eliza I Lewis-Skeath first of treble bob, and Jethro Woolley first of Cambridge Surprise Minor at Copt Oak on 1^st September
• Rebecca Lee ringing Lincolnshire Surprise Major at the Cathedral on 24^th September

first as conductor

• Eliza I Lewis-Skeath (16 years, 364 days and 22 hours old) in just her 16th ever quarter and only 157 days after her first, at Loughborough Bellfoundry on 27^th July

Other firsts

• Joss Davis, first on 8 at Loughborough All Saints on 24^th August
• Harry Thompson, first of minor, ringing treble to Plain Bob Minor at Packington on 29^th August
• Chris Swain-Phipps, first of major, ringing treble to Cambridge Surprise Major at Oadby on 31^st august
• Euan R M Thomas ringing, first peal on 10, ringing Cambridge Surprise Royal at St Mary de Castro on 2^nd September
• Kiera Boylan, first minor inside, at Waltham on the Wolds on 16^th September

handbell firsts

• First Superlative S Major in hand for Alison Godfrey, Robert Watson, and Judith Godfrey, on 14^th August
• First of Grandsire Triples in hand for Judith Godfrey and Robert Watson on 26^th September

Congratulations to everyone achieving firsts, hopefully they will be the first of many.