| OXFORD SOCIETY OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 19th March 2019 in 2h46 (7-1-12) 5040 Woodspring Surprise Royal Comp. R O Hall 1 Bernard J Stone 2 Michele Winter 3 Robin O Hall (C) 4 Connie M Tongue 5 Alan M Eyles 6 Rosanna Cretney 7 Jonathan C Mills 8 Stuart F Gibson 9 David C Ockwell 10 Simon A Bond Believed to be the 2000th peal rung for the Society, the first peal being Grandsire Caters at Christ Church on January 1st, 1734. For the avoidance of doubt, nobody rang in both peals |
OXFORD, S Thomas M, Oxon Mon 27th May 2019 in 43 mins (11-2-6) 1344 Spliced Surprise Major (7m) 192 each Bristol, Cambridge, Cornwall, Lessness, London, Superlative, Yorkshire; 39 com. 1 Jonathan D Wright 2 Adam D Rebick 3 Craig M Robertson 4 David S Phillips 5 Simon A Bond (C) 6 Jonathan C Mills 7 Emma Stanford 8 Alan M Eyles "Most methods ever": 4. First Core Seven: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7. | ||
| OXFORD, New College, Oxon Sun 24th November 2019 in 50 mins (20cwt) 1280 Yorkshire Surprise Royal 1 Alan M Eyles 2 Craig M Robertson 3 Dorothy G Hall 4 Claire L Pearson 5 Ben White-Horne 6 Simon A Bond (C) 7 Jonathan C Mills 8 Emma Stanford 9 Ryan Mills 10 Cameron White-Spunner Remembering Audrey Woodward and Margaret Taylor, Great-Aunts of the conductor, who both died this weekend. |
OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 14th January 2020 in 45 mins (7-1-12) 1320 Spliced Treble Dodging Royal (3m) 520 Triton Delight; 400 Cambridge Surprise, Yorkshire Surprise; 26 changes of method, some work. 1 Joanna E Knight 2 Robin O Hall (C) 3 David L Thomas 4 Simon A Bond 5 Katherine A Stonham 6 Jonathan Cresshull 7 Christopher I Griggs 8 Jonathan C Mills 9 Mark D Tarrant 10 Alan M Eyles | ||
| OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Sun 2nd February 2020 in 55 mins (31-0-23) 1346 Cambridge Surprise Maximus 1 Craig M Robertson 2 Elizabeth A Barnes 3 Simon A Bond 4 Matthew R Johnson 5 Cameron White-Spunner 6 Claire L Pearson 7 Isobel L Fray 8 Adam D Rebick 9 David S Phillips (C) 10 Christopher I Griggs 11 Jonathan C Mills 12 D Robert C Sworder Rung for OUS dinner weekend. First on twelve as conductor. |
OXFORD, New College, Oxon Sun 23rd February 2020 in 47 mins (20cwt) 1282 Woodspring Surprise Royal 1 Ben White-Horne 2 David L Thomas (C) 3 Claire L Pearson 4 Cameron White-Spunner 5 Simon A Bond 6 Rachel Croft 7 Adam D Rebick 8 Craig M Robertson 9 Alan M Eyles 10 Jonathan C Mills First in method: 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8. | ||
| OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Sun 1st March 2020 in 52 mins (31-0-23) 1346 Cambridge Surprise Maximus 1 Simon A Bond (C) 2 Alan M Eyles 3 Hazel M Rothera 4 Joanna E Knight 5 Elizabeth C Frye 6 Dorothy G Hall 7 David L Thomas 8 Jonathan C Mills 9 Christopher I Griggs 10 Mark D Tarrant 11 Jonathan Cresshull 12 Colin M Lee Special thanks to Dorothy for stepping in some time after the last minute after one member of the band was last seen sinking into the Thames. |
OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Sun 31st October 2021 in 58 mins (31-0-23) 1346 Cambridge Surprise Maximus 1 Bernard J Stone 2 Simon A Bond 3 Alan M Eyles 4 Jonathan Cresshull 5 J Chapman Knott 6 Dorothy G Hall 7 Simon L Edwards 8 Jonathan C Mills 9 Christopher I Griggs (C) 10 Robin O Hall 11 Joanna E Knight 12 Mark D Tarrant 200th together: 2 & 9. | ||
| OXFORD, S Thomas M, Oxon Mon 1st November 2021 in 42 mins (11-2-6) 1273 Grandsire Triples 1 Claire L Pearson 2 Craig M Robertson 3 Simon A Bond (C) 4 Jonathan C Mills 5 Ben White-Horne 6 Marcus T Ham 7 David L Thomas 8 Cameron White-Spunner |
OXFORD, S Thomas M, Oxon Mon 8th November 2021 in 42 mins (11-2-6) 1280 Yorkshire Surprise Major 1 Claire L Pearson 2 David L Thomas 3 Marcus T Ham 4 Craig M Robertson 5 Ben White-Horne (C) 6 Cameron White-Spunner 7 Jonathan C Mills 8 Simon A Bond | ||
| OXFORD, S Thomas M, Oxon Mon 15th November 2021 in 42 mins (11-2-6) 1280 Cambridge Surprise Major 1 Craig M Robertson 2 Rosanna Cretney 3 Alice L Gambles 4 Jonathan C Mills 5 Ben White-Horne (C) 6 David L Thomas 7 Simon A Bond 8 Cameron White-Spunner First inside and first on 8: 3. |
OXFORD, S Thomas M, Oxon Sun 21st November 2021 in 42 mins (11-2-6) 1280 Lamzy Divey Surprise Major 1 Lindsay Powell 2 Cameron White-Spunner 3 Jonathan C Mills 4 Alan M Eyles 5 Simon A Bond (C) 6 Craig M Robertson 7 Ben White-Horne 8 David L Thomas Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey. Lamzy Divey S: -34-14-56-1238-12-58-16-78 le18 | ||
| OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 7th December 2021 in 42 mins (7-1-12) 1280 Bristol Surprise Royal 1 Bernard J Stone 2 Michele Winter 3 Alan M Eyles 4 Robin O Hall (C) 5 David L Thomas 6 Jonathan C Mills 7 Cameron White-Spunner 8 Craig M Robertson 9 Joanna E Knight 10 Simon A Bond First blows in the method: 7. Circled the tower to 10 bell quarters: 10. |
OXFORD, Magdalen College, Oxon Sat 11th December 2021 in 52 mins (17-1-7) 1287 Stedman Caters 1 Joanna E Knight 2 Cameron White-Spunner 3 Craig M Robertson 4 Robin O Hall (C) 5 Jonathan C Mills 6 Jonathan Cresshull 7 John G Pusey 8 David L Thomas 9 Alan M Eyles 10 Simon A Bond Half-muffled following the funeral of Anthony David Smith CBE (1938-2021), President of Magdalen College 1988-2005. Second Oxford 10-bell tower circled to quarter peals by ringing the tenor this week: 10. | ||
| OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 11th January 2022 in 42 mins (7-1-12) 1344 Lancashire Surprise Major 1 Jonathan C Mills 2 Jonathan Cresshull 3 Simon A Bond (C) 4 Alan M Eyles 5 Craig M Robertson 6 Stuart F Gibson 7 Cameron White-Spunner 8 David L Thomas Most in method for all. |
OXFORD, S Thomas M, Oxon Mon 7th February 2022 in 42 mins (11-2-6) 1280 Bristol Surprise Major 1 Cameron White-Spunner 2 Claire L Pearson 3 David L Thomas (C) 4 Jonathan C Mills 5 Josie M Godfrey 6 Alan M Eyles 7 Craig M Robertson 8 Simon A Bond First in method: 5. | ||
| OXFORD, S Thomas M, Oxon Mon 7th March 2022 in 45 mins (11-2-6) 1344 Yorkshire Surprise Major 1 Simon A Bond 2 Claire L Pearson 3 Alice L Gambles 4 Craig M Robertson 5 Jonathan C Mills 6 Ben White-Horne 7 Cameron White-Spunner (C) 8 Alan M Eyles First blows in method: 3. |
OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Sun 19th June 2022 in 49 mins (31-0-23) 1260 Stedman Cinques 1 Simon A Bond 2 Alan M Eyles 3 Hazel M Rothera 4 David L Thomas 5 Cameron White-Spunner 6 Jonathan C Mills 7 Elizabeth C Frye 8 Joanna E Cresshull 9 Stephen M Jones 10 Jonathan Cresshull 11 Robin O Hall (C) 12 Mark D Tarrant | ||
| OXFORD SOCIETY OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 5th July 2022 in 2h47 (7-1-12) 5060 Stedman Caters Comp. R O Hall 1 Jack E Page 2 Daniel J Page 3 Alan M Eyles 4 Michele Winter 5 David C Ockwell 6 Timothy G Pett 7 Robin O Hall (C) 8 David L Thomas 9 Simon A Bond 10 Jonathan C Mills A Covid-delayed 60th birthday compliment to David Ockwell on his 62nd birthday. Also remembering Roger Barnes with great affection, a regular supporter of the Society's ringing, particularly at our Sunday service ringing at Christ Church Cathedral. 400th peal: 9. 100th peal of Caters: 7. |
OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 12th July 2022 in 42 mins (7-1-12) 1344 Spliced Major (7m) 224 each Lancashire S, Cornwall S, London S, Ytterbium S, Deva S, 112 each Double Norwich Court B, Double Coslany Court B 1 Simon A Bond (C) 2 David L Thomas 3 Katherine A Stonham 4 Stuart F Gibson 5 Robin O Hall 6 Alan M Eyles 7 Jonathan C Mills 8 Jonathan Cresshull Jonathans back end. | ||
| OXFORD SOCIETY OXFORD, Magdalen College, Oxon Sun 7th August 2022 in 3h17 (17-1-7) 5040 Spliced Surprise Royal (3m) 1760 Bristol; 1680 Yorkshire; 1600 Cambridge; 95 com; atw. Comp. M B Davies 1 Michele Winter 2 Mark A Bell 3 Simon A Bond 4 Colin M Lee 5 Jonathan C Mills 6 David C Ockwell 7 Alan M Eyles (C) 8 Janet E Archibald 9 Jonathan Cresshull 10 Joanna E Cresshull 200th peal: 6. 750th towerbell peal: 1. First Spliced Royal: 5 & 6. First Spliced as conductor. First with this surname: 10. |
OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 27th September 2022 in 44 mins (7-1-12) 1344 Superlative Surprise Major 1 Simon L Edwards 2 Jonathan Cresshull 3 Claire L Pearson 4 Peter W Spain 5 Jonathan C Mills 6 Craig M Robertson (C) 7 Simon A Bond 8 Alan M Eyles First in method: 4. | ||
| OXFORD, S Thomas M, Oxon Sun 16th October 2022 in 44 mins (11-2-6) 1260 Plain Bob Royal 1 Bernard J Stone 2 Simon A Bond 3 Hazel M Rothera 4 Craig M Robertson 5 Katherine A Stonham 6 Simon G Lee 7 Colin M Lee (C) 8 Jonathan C Mills 9 Alan M Eyles 10 Robin O Hall 10th Birthday treat for 6. First inside, first on 10 and first blows of Royal: 6 |
OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Sun 16th October 2022 in 56 mins (31-0-23) 1346 Cambridge Surprise Maximus 1 Bernard J Stone 2 Alan M Eyles 3 Michele Winter 4 Isobel L Fray 5 Josie M Godfrey 6 Katherine A Stonham 7 Craig M Robertson 8 David C Ockwell 9 Jonathan C Mills 10 Robin O Hall (C) 11 Simon A Bond 12 Janet E Archibald | ||
| OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 4th July 2023 in 48 mins (7-1-12) 1440 Cornish Rex Surprise Royal 1 Robin O Hall (C) 2 Michele Winter 3 Simon A Bond 4 Alan M Eyles 5 Dorothy G Hall 6 David C Ockwell 7 Jonathan C Mills 8 Janet E Archibald 9 Jonathan Cresshull 10 Joanna E Cresshull Cornish Rex Surprise Royal -56-14-56.12.30-12-50.14-14.50.14-14.50,10 (L) |
OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 24th August 2023 in 52 mins (31-0-23) 1299 Stedman Cinques 1 Alan M Eyles 2 Michele Winter 3 David L Thomas 4 Isobel L Fray 5 Joanna E Cresshull 6 Simon A Bond 7 Jonathan Cresshull (C) 8 Dorothy G Hall 9 Jonathan C Mills 10 Hazel M Rothera 11 Robin O Hall 12 Sara Jones In memory of James Dyer, sometime member of the Cathedral Choir and Cathedral Singers, and Jim Godfrey, verger 1988-2023. Circled the tower: 1, 5 Smallest person, biggest job, first on twelve: 12 | ||
| OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 14th September 2023 in 56 mins (31-0-23) 1330 Spliced Maximus (3m) 1298 Cambridge Surprise, 24 Little Bob, 8 Crayford Little Bob; 2 com. 1 Bernard J Stone 2 Craig M Robertson 3 Michele Winter 4 David C Ockwell 5 Katherine A Stonham 6 Stuart F Gibson 7 Peter W Spain 8 Alan M Eyles 9 David L Thomas 10 Jonathan C Mills 11 Simon A Bond (C) 12 Christopher I Griggs First of Surprise Maximus and first of Maximus on tower bells: 7. A 30th birthday compliment to Craig "Shakira" Robertson. Thanks to Katherine for making the dash down Abingdon Road when one of our band, who should have cycled, found herself stranded on the Oxford Ring Road. |
OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 7th December 2023 in 53 mins (31-0-23) 1282 Cambridge Surprise Royal 1 Jonathan C Mills 2 Craig M Robertson 3 Katherine A Stonham 4 Alan M Eyles 5 Peter W Spain 6 Joanna E Cresshull 7 Hazel M Rothera 8 Robin O Hall (C) 9 Simon A Bond 10 Mark A Bell Dedicated to the memory of Peter's grandmother, Nanette Maud Nelson, born September 1930, died 2nd December 2023. | ||
| OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 12th December 2023 in 44 mins (7-1-12) 1344 Spliced Treble Dodging Major (6m) 224 each Bristol Surprise, Deva Surprise, Glasgow Surprise, Lancashire Surprise, Mareham Delight, Ytterbium Surprise; 41 com; atw. 1 Simon A Bond 2 Alan M Eyles 3 David L Thomas 4 Craig M Robertson 5 Katherine A Stonham 6 Jonathan C Mills (C) 7 Mark D Tarrant 8 Jonathan Cresshull 500th tower bell quarter: 3. |
OXFORD SOCIETY OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Sun 7th January 2024 in 3h30 (31-0-23) 5042 Cambridge Surprise Maximus Comp. R J Angrave 1 Simon A Bond 2 Elizabeth C Frye 3 Hazel M Rothera 4 Janet E Archibald 5 David L Thomas 6 Christopher I Griggs 7 David C Ockwell 8 Jonathan C Mills 9 Joanna E Cresshull 10 Alan M Eyles 11 Robin O Hall (C) 12 Jonathan Cresshull | ||
| OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 22nd February 2024 in 55 mins (31-0-23) 1344 Bristol Surprise Maximus 1 Jonathan C Mills 2 Jonathan Cresshull 3 Hazel M Rothera 4 Katherine A Stonham 5 Peter W Spain 6 Robin O Hall (C) 7 Janet E Archibald 8 Christopher M Mundy 9 David L Thomas 10 Christopher I Griggs 11 Alan M Eyles 12 Simon A Bond Remembering Andrew Johnson (1966-2024). First Bristol Maximus: 5. |
OXFORD SOCIETY LUNDY ISLAND, S Helen, Devon Sun 26th May 2024 in 2h44 (13-1-18) 5042 Bristol Surprise Royal Comp. R W Lee 1 Bernard J Stone 2 Alan M Eyles 3 Elizabeth C Frye 4 Simon A Bond (C) 5 John P W Taylor 6 Christopher I Griggs 7 Jonathan C Mills 8 Peter W Spain 9 David L Thomas 10 Robin O Hall First of Bristol Royal: 8. | ||
| OXFORD SOCIETY OXFORD, Merton College, Oxon Sat 14th September 2024 in 3h27 (25-1-10) 5088 Bristol Surprise Major Comp. A G Reading 1 David P Hilling 2 Janet E Archibald 3 Stuart F Gibson 4 John P W Taylor 5 Alex J Parsons 6 Jonathan C Mills 7 Simon A Bond (C) 8 Matthew J Hilling To mark the 760th anniversary of the College's foundation by Walter de Merton in 1264. Also with best wishes to The Very Revd Dr Simon Jones, outgoing college chaplain, on his installation today as Dean of Lincoln Cathedral. |
OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 26th September 2024 in 55 mins (31-0-23) 1344 Avon Delight Maximus 1 Bernard J Stone 2 David L Thomas 3 Robin O Hall 4 Alan M Eyles 5 John P W Taylor 6 Simon A Bond (C) 7 Christopher M Mundy 8 Craig M Robertson 9 Stuart F Gibson 10 Christopher I Griggs 11 Jonathan C Mills 12 Colin M Lee First in method: 8 & 9. | ||
| OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 10th October 2024 in 56 mins (31-0-23) 1346 Cambridge Surprise Maximus 1 Bernard J Stone 2 Simon A Bond 3 Craig M Robertson 4 Christopher M Mundy 5 Katherine A Stonham 6 John P W Taylor 7 Christopher I Griggs (C) 8 Rachel Croft 9 Jonathan C Mills 10 Robin O Hall 11 Elizabeth A Evans 12 Mark A Bell First on 12: 8. |
OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 24th October 2024 in 50 mins (31-0-23) 1263 Stedman Cinques 1 Simon A Bond 2 John P W Taylor 3 David L Thomas 4 Craig M Robertson 5 Peter W Spain 6 Christopher I Griggs 7 David C Ockwell 8 Jonathan C Mills 9 Christopher M Mundy 10 Robin O Hall 11 Jonathan Cresshull 12 Mark A Bell (C) Celebrating the forthcoming wedding of Katherine Stonham and Alan Eyles. | ||
| OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 28th November 2024 in 52 mins (31-0-23) 1296 Spliced Treble Dodging Maximus (3m) 480 Bristol Surprise, Zanussi Surprise; 336 Avon Delight; 16 com. 1 Bernard J Stone 2 Simon A Bond 3 Alan M Eyles 4 John P W Taylor 5 Robin O Hall (C) 6 Christopher M Mundy 7 Christopher I Griggs 8 Jonathan C Mills 9 Colin M Lee 10 David L Thomas 11 Jonathan Cresshull 12 Mark A Bell Trickiest shizzle for some. 550th quarter: 8. Well done, Jon! |
OXFORD SOCIETY OXFORD, Carfax Tower, Oxon Sun 22nd December 2024 in 3h3 (15-0-22) 5040 Surprise Minor (7m) Carlisle, London, Wells, Annable's London, Norwich, Beverley, Cambridge 1 Jonathan C Mills 2 Simon A Bond 3 Sara Jones 4 Peter W Spain 5 David L Thomas (C) 6 Alan M Eyles First Minor on tower bells: 3. Rung as a 30th birthday compliment to Jon. For Christmas. | ||
| OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 13th February 2025 in 51 mins (31-0-23) 1265 Stedman Cinques 1 Alan M Eyles 2 Hazel M Rothera 3 John P W Taylor 4 Katherine A Eyles 5 Peter W Spain 6 Christopher I Griggs 7 David C Ockwell 8 Robin O Hall (C) 9 Christopher M Mundy 10 Jonathan Cresshull 11 Simon A Bond 12 Jonathan C Mills |
OXFORD SOCIETY WORCESTER, All Saints, Worcs Sat 22nd February 2025 in 3h16 (20-1-1) 5035 Spliced Cinques and Maximus (2m) 2539 Stedman Cinques, 2496 Bristol Surprise Maximus; 7 com. Comp. M R Eccleston 1 Alan M Eyles 2 John P W Taylor 3 Robin O Hall (C) 4 Katherine A Eyles 5 Christopher M Mundy 6 J Chapman Tone 7 Peter W Spain 8 Jonathan C Mills 9 Janet E Archibald 10 Mark D Tarrant 11 Simon A Bond 12 Mark A Bell 100th together: 11 & 12. First Cinques & Maximus: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. | ||
| BIRMINGHAM, S Martin, W Mids Sun 9th March 2025 in 52 mins (39-1-19) 1257 Stedman Cinques 1 Simon A Bond 2 Alan M Eyles 3 Hazel M Rothera 4 Christopher I Griggs 5 Jonathan C Mills 6 Janet E Archibald 7 Robin O Hall (C) 8 Stephen M Jones 9 David L Thomas 10 Jonathan Cresshull 11 Colin M Lee 12 Mark D Tarrant |
OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 27th March 2025 in 55 mins (31-0-23) 1344 Bristol Surprise Maximus 1 Cheryl A Watson 2 Alan M Eyles 3 Katherine A Eyles 4 Christopher M Mundy 5 David C Ockwell 6 Daniel J Watson 7 Jonathan C Mills (C) 8 John P W Taylor 9 Peter W Spain 10 Joanna E Cresshull 11 Robin O Hall 12 Simon A Bond First in method, and congratulations on passing his driving test: 6 (first attempt for both). First with the Society: 1, 6. First Maximus as conductor. | ||
| OXFORD, S Mary Magd, Oxon Tue 1st April 2025 in 43 mins (7-1-12) 1282 Yorkshire Surprise Royal 1 Simon A Bond 2 David L Thomas (C) 3 Craig M Robertson 4 Michele Winter 5 Peter W Spain 6 Robin O Hall 7 Dorothy G Hall 8 Stuart F Gibson 9 Alan M Eyles 10 Jonathan C Mills |
OXFORD, Cath Ch of Christ, Oxon Thu 24th April 2025 in 56 mins (31-0-23) 1346 Zanussi Surprise Maximus 1 Michael O Esbester 2 John P W Taylor 3 Katherine A Eyles 4 Simon A Bond (C) 5 Alan M Eyles 6 Christopher I Griggs 7 Christopher M Mundy 8 Jacob C W Hubbard 9 Peter W Spain 10 Robin O Hall 11 Jonathan C Mills 12 Colin M Lee First of Maximus: 8. First in method: 9. |