Leasowe Delight Minor

About Leasowe Delight Minor

Leasowe Delight Minor is a member of the Cotswold group of methods, a class which has backward hunting above the treble.

Leasowe Delight Minor is one of a group of 3 Treble Dodging 3rds Place Delight methods all having identical work below the treble.

• BOGEDONE Delight Minor
• FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor
• Leasowe Delight Minor (Ibid)

In July 2025 Bellboard had just 3 handbell performances that included Leasowe Delight Minor and including 1 peal.

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
36X34.16 X 12 X 36 X 34 X 56, 12, Bob 14, Single 1234.

Grid:

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

Plain Course structure
With 3rds Place Bell being the pivot bell (5ths at the Half Lead), and 2nds place Lead End, the leads are presented in Double Bob / Cambridge S. Lead End order.

Goals and learning approach

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

Get Started - use the structure

Above the treble the "Hills Group" work needs to be learned and practised. Below the treble Bogedone / Fotheringay / Leasowe are all well suited to using the skill of associating method structure with the work of the treble, and using structured counting.

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 Leasowe.

Learning Leasowe Delight Minor.

The Structure

Leasowe Delight is an interesting challenge, the difficulties lie with the 1-2 section, whilst the work below the treble can be rung by rules as per BOGEDONE and FOTHERINGAY. The spacings and touch points are critical to success.

The Rules

Ring Cotswold Treble Bob above the treble, and BOGEDONE Delight below the treble.

Double Blue Lines

Leasowe Delight Minor, 1-2

Diagram: Leasowe Delight Minor, 1-2.

Leasowe Delight Minor, 3-4

Diagram: Leasowe Delight Minor, 3-4.

Leasowe Delight Minor, 5-6

Diagram: Leasowe Delight Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

See Cotswold for "above the treble" aertefats.

Place Notation and Grid

The pictorial grid emphasises the structure of the method better than the Place Notation.

Pictels

Splitting into individual elements is of no value.

Ringing Leasowe Delight Minor.

Track the treble

Awareness of the position of the treble is a key skill for most bellringing methods, and is the major key to ringing dodge together in Treble Bob Minor. Some hints and tips for developing the skill are given in the techniques section.

Positional Awareness

Leasowe Delight Minor is helpful below the treble in keeping the bells close together.

Place Notation Elements

The method contains 7 elements (36X34, X, 12, 34, 36, 16, 56).

Double Place Bells

156342 LE 12: Double Bob; Chadkirk T.B., Cambridge S.

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

Pivot Leads

3rds Place Bell is the pivot bell.

For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when they dodge together in 1-2 at the Half Lead.
For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when they dodge together in 3-4 at the Half Lead.

Staging posts (a.k.a. Handrails).

For both 3-4 pattern and 5-6 pattern, the pivot leads act as handrails.
N.B. 2nds place bell makes 2nds at the first 3-4 section and then proceeds to dodge DOWN for 5 dodges.

Awareness of other bells

Coursing Order in Leasowe Delight Minor

Leasowe Delight Minor exhibits glimpses of natural coursing order.
NB. 4ths and 6ths place bells work together in 5-6 for the 1-2 sections and in 3-4 for the 5-6 sections and half lead.
An experienced ringer will pick out the parts that are valuable to them, others should concentrate on features that are more helpful

Ringing the Method

Leasowe could be a valuable entry method for the Cotswold Group.

Bobs and Singles.

Bobs replace the 2nds place at the Lead End with 4ths. This causes the bell that has just made point 6ths to make the bob and become 4ths place bell.

Singles Singles are rarely used in Leasowe Delight Minor.

Touches of Leasowe Delight Minor.

Bobs only touches of Double Bob / Cambridge will work for Leasowe Delight Minor.