Willesden Delight Minor

About Willesden Delight Minor - Complib

Like College Bob IV Delight Minor, Willesden Delight sits neatly between the standard Treble Bob methods and the simple, right place surprise methods.

Willesden Delight is “merely” College Bob IV Delight Minor except that when the treble is dodging in 5-6, "Kent" places are made. That’s all it is!

Willesden Delight Minor is one of a group of 5 Treble Dodging methods all having identical work below the treble.

• Norbury Treble Bob Minor
• Kingston Treble Bob Minor
• Willesden Delight Minor (Ibid)
• Wragby Delight Minor
• St Werburgh Delight Minor

As of June 2025 there were just 8 performances Willesden Delight Minor on handbells.

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
X 34 X 14 X 12 X 16 .34 X 34. 56, 12, Bob 14, Single 1234.

Grid:

Diagram: Willesden Delight Minor, plain lead, change-rows and grid.

Plain Course structure
The method is fairly static with triple dodges across the Half Lead and 7-pull dodging in 5-6. The 5th place half lead causes the pair in 3-4 to remain there and repeat the places work.

Learning Willesden Delight.

The Structure

Norbury preserves the structure of College Exercise the main blue line artefact then is the places work in the 5-6 section.
The places up are 3rds, 4ths, 3rds, 4ths
The places down are 4ths, 3rds, 4ths, 3rds

The Rules

Willesden Delight Minor - the rules
Ring College Bob IV Delight Minor unless the treble is dodging in 5-6 when double Kent places are made in 3-4.

Double Blue Lines

Willesden Delight Minor, 1-2

Diagram: Willesden Delight Minor, 1-2.

Willesden Delight Minor, 3-4

Diagram: Willesden Delight Minor, 3-4.

Willesden Delight Minor, 5-6

Diagram: Willesden Delight Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

The Blue Line features worth noting are the triple dodges front, 7-pull dodging at the back, and the places in 3-4.

Place Notation and Grid

The grid is a better memory aid than the Place Notation, however,

Pictels

This is a straightforward structure, there is no compelling reason to chop it up into picture elements.

Goals and learning approach

What you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.

Ringing by structure

If you are ringing Willesden Delight Minor to gain the skill of associating method structure with the work of the treble (valid goal), DO NOT learn the lines, learn the structure, ring, make mistakes and learn from them. Track-the Treble skills, Place Notation skills, coursing order skills can all be developed in this manner

Performance Level

If you are wishing to achieve 720s, Quarters, or peals:
start with the structural ringing as above, add in the bits that are natural to you.
Study the lines.
Practice a lot.
Achieve some performances .

Method Mastery Level

It is unusual for a band to wish to achieve mastery in a method like Willesden Delight Minor, but this is one of the easier methods in which to do so.

Ringing Norbury Treble Bob.

Track the treble

Awareness of the position of the treble is a key skill for most bellringing methods, and a signiificant help in ringing Willesden Delight Minor. Some hints and tips for developing the skill are given in the techniques section.

However, it is NOT suggested that ringers attempt to ring Willesden Delight Minor simply by the rules to gain "track the treble" skills. There are better methods in which to develop that skill.

Positional Awareness

The structure, which separates bells between 3-4 and 5-6 above the treble, and between 1-2 and 3-4 below the treble, is significantly helpful in developing the awareness of place inside the change rows. This is a helpful method.

Place Notation Elements

The method only contains 6 elements (X, 12, 14, 16, 34, 34X34, 56), all of which will already have been rung.

Place Bells, Pivot Leads, and Staging posts

For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when the pair triple dodges together in 1-2.
For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when they make places together in 3-4 under the treble.

142635 LE 12: St Clement's College Bob; Rochester T.B.; London S

1-2:1-2, 1-3, 1-5, 1-6, 1-4, 1-2
3-4:3-4, 5-2, 6-3, 4-5, 2-6, 3-4
5-6:6-5, 4-6, 2-4, 3-2, 5-3, 6-5

Awareness of other bells

Because of the fairly static nature of the method, there is time to think, whilst ringing across the half lead, where other working bells will be at the following lead end.

Coursing Order in Willesden Delight Minor

Natural Coursing order is well preserved both above and below the treble

Ringing the Method

The great benefit of ringing Willesden Delight Minor is that enables practice at many of techniques which are used in the simple Surprise methods.

Touches.

Bobs-only touches of St Clement's College Bob Minor.