An excellent quarter peal was rung on Friday afternoon 2nd October to commemorate the 125 years of submarine building in Barrow-in-Furness and the launch of Holland 1 (the first Royal Navy submarine) on 2nd October 1901. The BBC website has a good article about the Holland 1 submarine and the anniversary “Town marks 125 years of Navy submarine building“
The quarter peal was rung by a local ringers from Barrow and Dalton, and it was also significant because this was Jason’s first quarter as conductor.
Conducting a quarter peal requires considerable skill to ring their own bell while keeping track of the composition and order of all the bells to make vocal calls at precise moments to ensure no sequence of bells is repeated, and the bells only return to ring rounds (1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8) at the end of the quarter peal.
This was a skill Jason had been learning on the ‘Advanced Conducting’ course taught by Simon Linford on the NW Ringing Course at Borwick Hall (near Carnforth) in the summer.
Congratulations also go to Rachel who had not rung Plain Bob Major to a quarter peal before.
St James the Great, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria (Tenor: 12–0–24 in F)
On Friday, 2 October 2026 in 51 minutes
A quarter peal of 1344 changes of Plain Bob Major
1 Clarissa J E Caroe
2 Iwan Cotgreave
3 Cameron Pollock
4 Jacqueline Preston
5 Mia Bradford
6 Rachel Hallows
7 Jason W Pollock (C)
8 J Andrew Pollock
First as conductor: 7
First of plain bob major: 6
To celebrate the anniversary of the launch of ”Holland 1” the first Royal Navy submarine on this day in 1901, and 125 years of submarine building in Barrow-in-Furness.
Jayden Milby would would like to be associated with this performance.
photo taken at the Furness Cluster Advanced Practice at Kirkby later that evening.
Afterwards we went for a social meal at Mario House in on Dalton Road where we were joined by Alison and Jayden, and we could relax, chat and enjoy the meal.
Chatting at the table
