On This Day - 25 April

At one time The Ringing World had a feature called On This Day where notable events from the past were listed. Unfortunately, the events weren't related to ringing. This web page is a ringing version of On This Day.


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Bill Butler has agreed to supply his collection of events that happened on this day. These complement the automated extracts from PealBase.

Bill Butler's Events for 25th April

YearEventReference
1778The Braughing Youths, who had rung their first peal thirty-two years earlier, decided to ring a double length peal of Plain Bob Major. They rang 10,080 changes, in 6 hours and 34 minutes, with James Walker as conductor. He called a longer peal for them a year later. See September 30, 1746 and May 10, 1779.nv
1834James Pettit born. A prominent nineteenth century member of the College Youths, he called the first peal at St Paul's Cathedral, and rang in the long lengths at Fulham and Bethnal Green. He was also the conductor of the long peal of Stedman Cinques at St Michael, Cornhill in 1887 that was lost after 10,000 changes with only two bobs to be called. He died on May 12, 1912, aged 78.nv
1895James W Washbrook turned in the tenor at Wells Cathedral to a peal of Kent Treble Bob Royal. The previous December he had rung it single-handed to a peal of Grandsire Caters. It was considered impossible at that time to ring a peal on the bell with only one ringer.nv
1912What was recorded as the first peal by a band of all policemen took place at St Mary Magdalene, Holloway on this day when eight members of the Metropolitan Police Force rang a peal of Grandsire Triples, conducted by P.C. Cornelius Charge.RW1912/292
1969The first ever peal on 16 bells. This was Kent Treble Bob 16-In on handbells at Watford, conducted by John R Mayne for the Hertford County Association.nv
1981The first peal by a band all with the first name of "Mark". This was 5024 Mark Surprise Major at Mark, Somerset.NP
1987A peal of Cambridge Surprise Minor was rung on the back six bells at Southwark Cathedral, conducted by Mark Regan. With a tenor of 48 cwt, this was the heaviest ring of six rung to a peal.RW1987/562

Birthdays for 25th April

First pealers for 25th April

1903First peal rung by John [Privett] Baker. Recorded peal total is 2.
1896First peal rung by Albert D Cullum_sen. Recorded peal total is 55.
1896First peal rung by George Doughty. Recorded peal total is 23.
1896First peal rung by Harry Whittle. Recorded peal total is 109.
1896First peal rung by John [Stanford] Yates. Recorded peal total is 8.
1896First peal rung by John Yates_sen. Recorded peal total is 9.
1903First peal rung by W [Stokesley] Clarkson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903First peal rung by Alfred [Quedgeley] Ward. Recorded peal total is 11.
1903First peal rung by Benjamin S Thompson. Recorded peal total is 153.
1903First peal rung by Highwood S Humphrey. Recorded peal total is 56.
1903First peal rung by Frederick W Booth. Recorded peal total is 29.
1903First peal rung by Arthur [Privett] Baker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1904First peal rung by John Hawes. Recorded peal total is 6.
1905First peal rung by Samuel Dowell. Recorded peal total is 3.
1905First peal rung by William Dowell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1905First peal rung by Albert Homer. Recorded peal total is 2.
1905First peal rung by Ezra Homer. Recorded peal total is 9.
1905First peal rung by Frederick Homer. Recorded peal total is 2.
1907First peal rung by Wilfred G Cook. Recorded peal total is 44.
1908First peal rung by William Dent. Recorded peal total is 65.
1908First peal rung by Thomas Pruke. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908First peal rung by Frederick Pryke. Recorded peal total is 3.
1908First peal rung by George Baseley. Recorded peal total is 7.
1908First peal rung by David L Cotton. Recorded peal total is 34.
1910First peal rung by W H [Leckhampton] Harrison. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910First peal rung by Alfred F Hunt. Recorded peal total is 4.
1910First peal rung by Frederick A Pratt. Recorded peal total is 2.
1910First peal rung by George H Walters. Recorded peal total is 43.
1886First peal rung by James Allred. Recorded peal total is 13.
1914First peal rung by Albert Secker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921First peal rung by William H Hawley. Recorded peal total is 3.
1921First peal rung by Arthur Walker_jun. Recorded peal total is 5.
1922First peal rung by Sydney Sage. Recorded peal total is 51.
1923First peal rung by Phyllis M Mayne. Recorded peal total is 214.
1923First peal rung by Albert Stokes. Recorded peal total is 7.
1925First peal rung by George Ainsworth. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925First peal rung by Frederick [Padiham] Smith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925First peal rung by Robert [Padiham] Whitehead. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925First peal rung by Cecil H Pawsey. Recorded peal total is 6.
1925First peal rung by Stephen H Wood. Recorded peal total is 113.
1925First peal rung by Charles Sargent. Recorded peal total is 4.
1925First peal rung by William Hook. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925First peal rung by Albert E Pitman. Recorded peal total is 6.
1925First peal rung by Arthur D Thomas. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925First peal rung by Lucy Thomas. Recorded peal total is 6.
1925First peal rung by Alfred Marshall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925First peal rung by C Norman Sharples. Recorded peal total is 2.
1928First peal rung by George Stemp. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931First peal rung by Thomas Tattersall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931First peal rung by Allen S Weatherley. Recorded peal total is 11.
1931First peal rung by Frederick Buckenham. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931First peal rung by Arthur Dungay. Recorded peal total is 2.
1931First peal rung by Reginald Buswell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931First peal rung by Arthur Hallam. Recorded peal total is 6.
1933First peal rung by Thomas Lappington. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933First peal rung by Arthur R Milsom. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933First peal rung by William Peachey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936First peal rung by Kenneth G Carlton. Recorded peal total is 9.
1938First peal rung by David J [Bishopsgate] Bowen. Recorded peal total is 2.
1948First peal rung by William Peverell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1948First peal rung by Ronald S Rowe. Recorded peal total is 5.
1948First peal rung by Elizabeth M Sloan. Recorded peal total is 5.
1950First peal rung by John S Clark. Recorded peal total is 2.
1950First peal rung by Edmund J Fowell. Recorded peal total is 14.
1952First peal rung by Clive Barber. Recorded peal total is 3.
1953First peal rung by James Booth. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953First peal rung by Keith Sheldon. Recorded peal total is 2.
1953First peal rung by Beryl Hartell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953First peal rung by Joan Milton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953First peal rung by Donald Williams. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953First peal rung by Paul T Herbert. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953First peal rung by Terry Senior. Recorded peal total is 3.
1953First peal rung by David C Bennett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953First peal rung by Donald S Payne. Recorded peal total is 12.
1958First peal rung by W Garry Clinton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958First peal rung by Roger Tomkins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958First peal rung by George W Jennings. Recorded peal total is 3.
1959First peal rung by David George. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959First peal rung by Kathleen Bell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1959First peal rung by Philip Wood. Recorded peal total is 7.
1959First peal rung by F Marilyn Bird. Recorded peal total is 7.
1959First peal rung by Peter Pearce. Recorded peal total is 132.
1959First peal rung by June I Dear. Recorded peal total is 18.
1959First peal rung by Jeffrey Charman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959First peal rung by Margaret E Egglestone. Recorded peal total is 55.
1959First peal rung by James Ayres. Recorded peal total is 5.
1959First peal rung by Jennifer Keggin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959First peal rung by Marian King. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959First peal rung by Neil D Davies. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959First peal rung by Cynthia M Hunt. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962First peal rung by Wilfred Busby. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964First peal rung by Graham E Drew. Recorded peal total is 4.
1964First peal rung by Stephen T Kirby. Recorded peal total is 53.
1964First peal rung by Kay Smith. Recorded peal total is 6.
1964First peal rung by Alan Barlow. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964First peal rung by Tom Bretherton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964First peal rung by Anne L Barber. Recorded peal total is 5.
1964First peal rung by Vivienne M Dye. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964First peal rung by Rachel J Edwards. Recorded peal total is 93.
1964First peal rung by Janice C Saunders. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964First peal rung by Frank Haslum. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964First peal rung by John [Ripple] Mead. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968First peal rung by Valerie L Burgess. Recorded peal total is 3.
1968First peal rung by Wendy J Wallace. Recorded peal total is 15.
1969First peal rung by Heather M Craven. Recorded peal total is 2.
1969First peal rung by Francesca V McAlear. Recorded peal total is 3.
1969First peal rung by John E Weaver. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970First peal rung by Dennis Greenwood. Recorded peal total is 4.
1970First peal rung by Joseph [Shelley] Greenwood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970First peal rung by Mary Greenwood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970First peal rung by Stephen Littlewood. Recorded peal total is 3.
1970First peal rung by Susan M Nielsen. Recorded peal total is 18.
1970First peal rung by L Sarah Green. Recorded peal total is 4.
1970First peal rung by Robert Stansfield. Recorded peal total is 1.
1972First peal rung by Peter R Barnes. Recorded peal total is 2.
1972First peal rung by Andrew J Goodyer. Recorded peal total is 50.
1972First peal rung by Gregory L Heness. Recorded peal total is 1.
1973First peal rung by Alison Daniels. Recorded peal total is 27.
1973First peal rung by Alan P Mayle. Recorded peal total is 2268.
1973First peal rung by Alan N Gorringe. Recorded peal total is 13.
1976First peal rung by Andrew G Dyson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1979First peal rung by David J West. Recorded peal total is 14.
1981First peal rung by Libby Ramsbottom. Recorded peal total is 9.
1981First peal rung by Janet D Spencer. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981First peal rung by Phillip A Culley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981First peal rung by Katherine A Hinchliffe. Recorded peal total is 668.
1981First peal rung by Andrew J B Ingram. Recorded peal total is 251.
1982First peal rung by Graham C Watt. Recorded peal total is 4.
1982First peal rung by Ruth E Whitelock. Recorded peal total is 88.
1982First peal rung by Adam J Carlill. Recorded peal total is 33.
1983First peal rung by Gillian M Turnham. Recorded peal total is 3.
1984First peal rung by Celia A Hacker. Recorded peal total is 24.
1984First peal rung by Philip D Gee. Recorded peal total is 65.
1986First peal rung by Eileen Stevenson. Recorded peal total is 183.
1986First peal rung by Mary C Ellis. Recorded peal total is 651.
1986First peal rung by Megan L Lewin. Recorded peal total is 4.
1986First peal rung by Alan T Shapley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986First peal rung by Steven J Tuften. Recorded peal total is 4.
1986First peal rung by Andrew T Woodward. Recorded peal total is 2.
1987First peal rung by Ines Laidler. Recorded peal total is 2.
1987First peal rung by Peter M Willan. Recorded peal total is 3.
1987First peal rung by A Paul Hemming. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989First peal rung by Colin Johnson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990First peal rung by Neil A Thomas. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990First peal rung by Ruth E Rossell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990First peal rung by Rachel A Spratt. Recorded peal total is 14.
1991First peal rung by Mavis A Burbidge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992First peal rung by A Paul Yates. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992First peal rung by Duncan M Purchase. Recorded peal total is 8.
1992First peal rung by Alastair H Buckenham. Recorded peal total is 5.
1992First peal rung by Hannah E Ward. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992First peal rung by Alison M Laing. Recorded peal total is 18.
1992First peal rung by David [Wolverley] Andrews. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996First peal rung by Richard Leyland. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998First peal rung by Edwin White. Recorded peal total is 2.
1998First peal rung by Neil Densham. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998First peal rung by Matthew Robertson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998First peal rung by Lynn S Scales. Recorded peal total is 55.
1999First peal rung by Rob Panes. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004First peal rung by Ted Cain. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004First peal rung by Bethany Clague. Recorded peal total is 2.
2004First peal rung by Marion Lawrence. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004First peal rung by Irene Warrilow. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009First peal rung by Walter T Ostins. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011First peal rung by Thomas H Schutt. Recorded peal total is 20.
2015First peal rung by Stephen J Harvey. Recorded peal total is 2.
2015First peal rung by Julie D McDonnell. Recorded peal total is 7.
2015First peal rung by Daniel J Morgan. Recorded peal total is 4.
2015First peal rung by Suzanne Hunt. Recorded peal total is 3.

First peals in towers for 25th April

1774First peal on the bells at Bristol, All Saints, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 119.
1814First peal on the bells at Pershore, Holy Cross, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 92.
1896First peal on the bells at Stanford on Soar, St John the Baptist, Nottinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 99.
1908First peal on the bells at Maresfield, St Bartholomew, Sussex. Recorded peal total is 21.
1908First peal on the bells at Newhall, St John, Derbyshire. Recorded peal total is 39.
1929First peal on the bells at Oxford, Lincoln College, Oxfordshire. Recorded peal total is 121.
1931First peal on the bells at Ingrave, St Nicholas, Essex. Recorded peal total is 19.
1938First peal on the bells at Bishop's Sutton, St Nicholas, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 5.
1938First peal on the bells at Hinton Blewett, St Margaret, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 15.
1955First peal on the bells at Hatch Beauchamp, St John the Baptist, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 3.
1958First peal on the bells at Eriswell, St Peter, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 21.
1963First peal on the bells at Shrub End, Colchester, All Saints, Essex. Recorded peal total is 33.
1964First peal on the bells at Birlingham, St James the Great, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 13.
1981First peal on the bells at Graffham, St Giles, Sussex. Recorded peal total is 8.
1987First peal on the bells at Lydeard St Lawrence, St Lawrence, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 21.
1987First peal on the bells at Peterborough, SS Peter, Paul & Andrew, Northamptonshire. Recorded peal total is 113.
2009First peal on the bells at mobile ring, Lichfield Diocesan Mobile Belfry, mobile ring. Recorded peal total is 4.

First peals in method for 25th April

1949First tower bell peal of Spalding College Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963First tower bell peal of Christchurch Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 34.
1964First tower bell peal of Grantchester Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1964First tower bell peal of Westray Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1970First tower bell peal of Felixstowe Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979First tower bell peal of Osterley Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
1979First tower bell peal of Titanium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 10.
1981First tower bell peal of Double Canterbury Place Minimus. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981First tower bell peal of Mark Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1987First tower bell peal of Trisantona Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990First tower bell peal of Wattle Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1991First tower bell peal of Silver Fern Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992First tower bell peal of Sena Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1997First tower bell peal of Dunmore Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000First tower bell peal of Andamooka Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004First tower bell peal of Golden Wedding Treble Place Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006First tower bell peal of Town End Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006First tower bell peal of Yaddlethorpe Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007First tower bell peal of Roche Abbey Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2008First tower bell peal of Eastcott Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008First tower bell peal of Zauner Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2010First tower bell peal of Bristolian Treble Place Caters. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012First tower bell peal of Stoke Poges Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
2016First tower bell peal of Johnston Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016First tower bell peal of Wolborough Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.