On This Day - 30 March

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 30th March

YearEventReference
1671The College Youths rang Stedman's Principle for the first time at St Benet's, Cambridge.nv
1690The Norman central tower at Selby Abbey collapsed, destroying the south transept. The tower was rebuilt in 1702, but the transept had to wait till 1912. See October 19, 1906.nv
1891George R Pye rang his first peal. He was one of six brothers, all ringers, although the youngest and the eldest did not progress very far, with the other three they made the name Pye known throughout the world of ringing. William, Ernest and George - or “Bob” as he was known - each rang over a thousand peals. See June 30, 1872, March 31,1945 and April 9, 1927.RW1945/149
1891An attempt for Thomas Day's composition of 16,608 Oxford Treble Bob Major failed at Debenham, Suffolk after 9,024 changes had been rung. The peal was successfully accomplished on June 6, 1892, although there was another unsuccessful attempt on May 18, 1891.nv
1912The new ring of eight at Egham, Surrey, cast by Gillett and Johnston "on the new Simpson principle", were rung for the first time. The writer of this article claimed that Egham was the first Surrey Association tower to have their bells tuned in this way.nv

Birthdays for 30th March

First pealers for 30th March

1891First peal rung by George R Pye. Recorded peal total is 1647.
1891First peal rung by Cornelius Charge. Recorded peal total is 82.
1901First peal rung by William [Tipton] Fisher. Recorded peal total is 340.
1891First peal rung by Frank [Witney] Smith. Recorded peal total is 155.
1891First peal rung by Henry C Castle. Recorded peal total is 66.
1905First peal rung by Charles T Coles. Recorded peal total is 1012.
1908First peal rung by Lewis J Powell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1909First peal rung by C W Dann. Recorded peal total is 1.
1909First peal rung by John Farrell. Recorded peal total is 6.
1910First peal rung by Harvey Bowcock. Recorded peal total is 6.
1910First peal rung by Charles Semper. Recorded peal total is 5.
1910First peal rung by Edward R Semper. Recorded peal total is 5.
1910First peal rung by John Semper. Recorded peal total is 5.
1910First peal rung by George Tindall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911First peal rung by Walter Perrott. Recorded peal total is 1.
1912First peal rung by Frederick Oxenbury. Recorded peal total is 5.
1912First peal rung by A [Duffield] Butler. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914First peal rung by John Owin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914First peal rung by Fred Wakelin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914First peal rung by George J Yardley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921First peal rung by Ronald F Lawrence. Recorded peal total is 4.
1921First peal rung by Edward Coleman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921First peal rung by Basil Wood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923First peal rung by Arthur C Moule. Recorded peal total is 6.
1927First peal rung by Percy L Bishop. Recorded peal total is 2.
1927First peal rung by Edwin C Bowley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1927First peal rung by Thomas H Norris. Recorded peal total is 22.
1933First peal rung by Walter [Oldham] Beaumont. Recorded peal total is 2.
1935First peal rung by Ernest Kettle. Recorded peal total is 2.
1935First peal rung by William E [Westerham] Matthews. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936First peal rung by Stanley Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 1.
1940First peal rung by E Hayton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1940First peal rung by William Stopforth. Recorded peal total is 3.
1946First peal rung by Edna George. Recorded peal total is 1.
1946First peal rung by Dora Hayward. Recorded peal total is 1.
1946First peal rung by William A Hughes. Recorded peal total is 11.
1946First peal rung by Walter J Perrot. Recorded peal total is 1.
1946First peal rung by Hubert C Crome. Recorded peal total is 7.
1946First peal rung by Peter N White. Recorded peal total is 17.
1948First peal rung by Dorothy Lintern. Recorded peal total is 2.
1950First peal rung by Ralph Bonnett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950First peal rung by Richard W Stephens. Recorded peal total is 34.
1951First peal rung by C Douglas Linington. Recorded peal total is 49.
1953First peal rung by Doreen Metcalfe. Recorded peal total is 15.
1954First peal rung by Betty Marsh. Recorded peal total is 1.
1957First peal rung by Derek [Willenhall] Parker. Recorded peal total is 4.
1957First peal rung by Dorothy A Mosedale. Recorded peal total is 1.
1957First peal rung by Jean A Quill. Recorded peal total is 2.
1957First peal rung by O Stanley Underwood. Recorded peal total is 3.
1959First peal rung by Raymond C D Fletcher. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959First peal rung by Geoffrey R Crisp. Recorded peal total is 39.
1963First peal rung by Bryan Forest. Recorded peal total is 2.
1963First peal rung by Susan Morris. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963First peal rung by Josephine P Sadler. Recorded peal total is 7.
1963First peal rung by Edna F Basford. Recorded peal total is 2.
1963First peal rung by Michael Harrad. Recorded peal total is 2.
1963First peal rung by Barbara E M Fox. Recorded peal total is 4.
1963First peal rung by Jeffrey J Fox. Recorded peal total is 143.
1963First peal rung by Janice M Smith. Recorded peal total is 8.
1963First peal rung by Sheila A Spreadbury. Recorded peal total is 8.
1964First peal rung by Hedley Burton. Recorded peal total is 10.
1964First peal rung by Robert Foster. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964First peal rung by Michael F Hall. Recorded peal total is 3.
1964First peal rung by Brian C Wallis. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964First peal rung by Joan D Woolgar. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964First peal rung by Jane M Yardley. Recorded peal total is 5.
1964First peal rung by David J H Salter. Recorded peal total is 12.
1964First peal rung by David P Sturge. Recorded peal total is 15.
1964First peal rung by Angela G Wakefield. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964First peal rung by Janet M Oliver. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964First peal rung by Antony J Parcell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964First peal rung by Julie A V Caligari. Recorded peal total is 6.
1966First peal rung by Charles F Pocock. Recorded peal total is 292.
1968First peal rung by Margaret S Churchill. Recorded peal total is 84.
1968First peal rung by Peter J Rowe. Recorded peal total is 96.
1968First peal rung by David A Town. Recorded peal total is 1267.
1968First peal rung by Susan J Percy. Recorded peal total is 8.
1968First peal rung by Eric A McNally. Recorded peal total is 11.
1968First peal rung by Harry Winter. Recorded peal total is 389.
1969First peal rung by R Gavin Haigh. Recorded peal total is 43.
1970First peal rung by Ernest A Brock. Recorded peal total is 6.
1970First peal rung by Clare R Pipe-Wolferstan. Recorded peal total is 117.
1970First peal rung by Hilda C Ridley. Recorded peal total is 1687.
1970First peal rung by Bernard H Taylor. Recorded peal total is 2304.
1970First peal rung by Helen R Taylor. Recorded peal total is 259.
1970First peal rung by Hilary Hall. Recorded peal total is 13.
1970First peal rung by J Dana Josephson. Recorded peal total is 11.
1970First peal rung by Michael J Peters. Recorded peal total is 32.
1973First peal rung by Timothy R Hirst. Recorded peal total is 2.
1973First peal rung by Andrew W Metcalfe. Recorded peal total is 22.
1974First peal rung by Bryan T Parker. Recorded peal total is 47.
1974First peal rung by Patrick W Rendell. Recorded peal total is 16.
1974First peal rung by Sarah I Withers. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974First peal rung by Martin V Lazell. Recorded peal total is 15.
1974First peal rung by Linda S Clarke. Recorded peal total is 3.
1974First peal rung by Carol A Lukins. Recorded peal total is 7.
1974First peal rung by Penelope Lowen. Recorded peal total is 30.
1979First peal rung by L Dick Hobbs. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980First peal rung by Betty Blessley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980First peal rung by Elizabeth A Brocklehurst. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983First peal rung by J Eric Brosius. Recorded peal total is 107.
1985First peal rung by Timothy M Andrews. Recorded peal total is 14.
1985First peal rung by Kenneth D Odam. Recorded peal total is 2.
1985First peal rung by Ann Scarisbrick. Recorded peal total is 4.
1985First peal rung by David R Barnard. Recorded peal total is 18.
1985First peal rung by Jonathan M Halliwell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985First peal rung by Sue Stead. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986First peal rung by Colin F Fowles. Recorded peal total is 9.
1986First peal rung by John W Noakes. Recorded peal total is 2.
1986First peal rung by Robert Rance. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986First peal rung by Robert G Gibson. Recorded peal total is 168.
1990First peal rung by Susan L Taylor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991First peal rung by Karen A Moore. Recorded peal total is 2.
1996First peal rung by Nicola J Cottle. Recorded peal total is 3.
1996First peal rung by John L Carter. Recorded peal total is 3.
1996First peal rung by Giles P G Cockman. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006First peal rung by Liam Craddock. Recorded peal total is 33.
2014First peal rung by Alan G Futers. Recorded peal total is 189.
2014First peal rung by Rebecca H Lane. Recorded peal total is 2.
2016First peal rung by S M Jane Lewis. Recorded peal total is 5.
2019First peal rung by Douglas S Vale. Recorded peal total is 23.

First peals in towers for 30th March

1756First peal on the bells at St Neots, St Mary, Huntingdonshire. Recorded peal total is 285.
1891First peal on the bells at Deal, St Leonard, Kent. Recorded peal total is 16.
1891First peal on the bells at Peckleton, St Mary Magdalene, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 35.
1895First peal on the bells at Burgh, St Botolph, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 137.
1901First peal on the bells at Birkenhead, St Mary, Cheshire. Recorded peal total is 60.
1910First peal on the bells at Nocton, All Saints, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 46.
1963First peal on the bells at Cherry Hinton, St Andrew, Cambridgeshire. Recorded peal total is 63.
1968First peal on the bells at Wherwell, St Peter & Holy Cross, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 5.
1970First peal on the bells at Ashdon, All Saints, Essex. Recorded peal total is 46.
1970First peal on the bells at St Teath, St Tetha, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 3.
1994First peal on the bells at Sapcote, Harecroft Farm, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 10.
1996First peal on the bells at Thriplow, St George, Cambridgeshire. Recorded peal total is 36.
2005First peal on the bells at Trellech, St Nicholas, Monmouthshire. Recorded peal total is 5.
2011First peal on the bells at Tolland, St John the Baptist, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 8.

First peals in method for 30th March

1966First tower bell peal of Illey Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1970First tower bell peal of Accrington Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1985First tower bell peal of Furtho Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987First tower bell peal of Deptford Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992First tower bell peal of Uckinghall Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992First tower bell peal of Woolley Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1993First tower bell peal of Yosemite Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994First tower bell peal of Lutresurde Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995First tower bell peal of Spirit of Birmingham Alliance Maximus. Recorded peal total is 2.
1996First tower bell peal of Montgomeryshire Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1996First tower bell peal of Newnham-on-Severn Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996First tower bell peal of St Denys Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996First tower bell peal of Ure Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997First tower bell peal of Buchanan Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997First tower bell peal of Turramurra Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 2.
2001First tower bell peal of Brafield Treble Bob Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001First tower bell peal of Germinal Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004First tower bell peal of Kettleburn Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2007First tower bell peal of Eatonville Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013First tower bell peal of Longparish Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016First tower bell peal of Carr Dyke Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016First tower bell peal of Golden Hare Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.