On This Day - 28 August

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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 28th August

YearEventReference
1944William H Fussell, organiser of the first “Great Adventure”, died aged 82. He was the 12th person to ring one thousand peals. His total was 1151. See September 16, 1861, April 10, 1882 and September 19, 1934.PPR
1969A series of thefts of bells from churches in Essex culminated with the theft of four bells from St Mary's, Little Oakley, near Colchester, all with the inscription “Miles Graye made me” and the dates 1612, 1615, 1633, 1652.RW1969/703
1982Rev Brian Harris rang his one-thousandth peal, Yorkshire Surprise Major at Abbots Bromley, Staffs. He was the 91st person to achieve one thousand peals.PPR

Birthdays for 28th August

First pealers for 28th August

1894First peal rung by John Royle. Recorded peal total is 1.
1895First peal rung by James Dix. Recorded peal total is 1.
1899First peal rung by Hubert Eden. Recorded peal total is 295.
1904First peal rung by Thomas Whiting. Recorded peal total is 12.
1909First peal rung by Percy J Spice. Recorded peal total is 238.
1912First peal rung by Sidney Anstead. Recorded peal total is 20.
1912First peal rung by Samuel Newman. Recorded peal total is 6.
1920First peal rung by William G Birch. Recorded peal total is 2.
1920First peal rung by Frank H Gibbs. Recorded peal total is 1.
1920First peal rung by John Jarman. Recorded peal total is 3.
1920First peal rung by Thomas W Scott. Recorded peal total is 2.
1920First peal rung by Reginald H Parker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924First peal rung by Cyril M Mitchell. Recorded peal total is 16.
1926First peal rung by Stanley C J Ashman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1926First peal rung by William Baker. Recorded peal total is 5.
1926First peal rung by John E Metcalfe. Recorded peal total is 50.
1927First peal rung by F Charles Goodman. Recorded peal total is 329.
1927First peal rung by Wilfred G Saunders. Recorded peal total is 216.
1928First peal rung by Thomas Collins. Recorded peal total is 51.
1930First peal rung by Cyril Crone. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934First peal rung by Bryan Booth. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934First peal rung by Ernest Weller. Recorded peal total is 2.
1938First peal rung by Charles Bower. Recorded peal total is 8.
1939First peal rung by Frank Heely. Recorded peal total is 1.
1947First peal rung by Brenda Fells. Recorded peal total is 18.
1948First peal rung by Edward A Dixon. Recorded peal total is 9.
1948First peal rung by Hubert E Ashley. Recorded peal total is 170.
1952First peal rung by Allan Simpson. Recorded peal total is 50.
1952First peal rung by Joan E Simpson. Recorded peal total is 50.
1954First peal rung by Graeme A Hughes. Recorded peal total is 9.
1954First peal rung by Hugh Vennell. Recorded peal total is 22.
1954First peal rung by Charles Dyment. Recorded peal total is 1.
1954First peal rung by Clive E Marchant. Recorded peal total is 2.
1954First peal rung by Geoffrey R Marchant. Recorded peal total is 27.
1954First peal rung by Dennis G Miller. Recorded peal total is 7.
1957First peal rung by Maurice E Downs. Recorded peal total is 239.
1957First peal rung by Colin Dring. Recorded peal total is 2.
1958First peal rung by Joan M Dawson. Recorded peal total is 27.
1958First peal rung by Alison M Bayley. Recorded peal total is 91.
1960First peal rung by Irene Bradshaw. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964First peal rung by Neil Margerison. Recorded peal total is 2.
1965First peal rung by Judy A Stocker. Recorded peal total is 3.
1965First peal rung by Robert C Hawtree. Recorded peal total is 112.
1965First peal rung by Terence G Hill. Recorded peal total is 25.
1965First peal rung by John F Thorne. Recorded peal total is 438.
1966First peal rung by Lynne I Clowe. Recorded peal total is 10.
1967First peal rung by Jennifer M Armeson. Recorded peal total is 138.
1970First peal rung by Philippa Garrard. Recorded peal total is 2.
1971First peal rung by Paul S Seaman. Recorded peal total is 1491.
1971First peal rung by Norman P Hancock. Recorded peal total is 4.
1971First peal rung by Elizabeth M Gardner. Recorded peal total is 2.
1971First peal rung by Geoffrey A Round. Recorded peal total is 1.
1971First peal rung by David J R Broadhead. Recorded peal total is 2.
1971First peal rung by Robert A Michie. Recorded peal total is 28.
1971First peal rung by Neil A Westman. Recorded peal total is 75.
1972First peal rung by Ian G Lowe. Recorded peal total is 1.
1973First peal rung by Christopher G Howard. Recorded peal total is 2.
1974First peal rung by Jennifer M Parkinson. Recorded peal total is 25.
1974First peal rung by Eileen V Sweet. Recorded peal total is 21.
1974First peal rung by J Michael Foster. Recorded peal total is 1.
1975First peal rung by Mario A Price. Recorded peal total is 4.
1975First peal rung by Andrew P Roe. Recorded peal total is 1.
1976First peal rung by Peter M Webster. Recorded peal total is 2.
1976First peal rung by Edward J Maddex. Recorded peal total is 2.
1976First peal rung by Graham A Darke. Recorded peal total is 20.
1976First peal rung by Helen Leith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977First peal rung by Christopher J Cattaway. Recorded peal total is 10.
1978First peal rung by Gladys E Clements. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979First peal rung by Joseph E Dickinson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979First peal rung by Keith B Roberts. Recorded peal total is 22.
1979First peal rung by Sandra A Penson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1979First peal rung by Paul J R Daybell. Recorded peal total is 334.
1982First peal rung by Michael J [Raithby] Smith. Recorded peal total is 187.
1982First peal rung by Lee Greenwood. Recorded peal total is 6.
1982First peal rung by Alex W Flather-Morgan. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982First peal rung by Gail E Graves. Recorded peal total is 19.
1984First peal rung by David G Carling. Recorded peal total is 361.
1984First peal rung by Simon H C Rice. Recorded peal total is 10.
1984First peal rung by Kate J Scott. Recorded peal total is 14.
1985First peal rung by Gail Lewis. Recorded peal total is 3.
1985First peal rung by Peter J Townsend. Recorded peal total is 595.
1987First peal rung by Barbara Skilleter. Recorded peal total is 3.
1988First peal rung by Adam V Turner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988First peal rung by James W Turner. Recorded peal total is 4.
1988First peal rung by Nigel J Turner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992First peal rung by Alan J McBurnie. Recorded peal total is 7.
1993First peal rung by Sarah M Tilley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993First peal rung by Jackie W Tutt. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993First peal rung by Michael A Young. Recorded peal total is 2.
1993First peal rung by Stephen P Hooper. Recorded peal total is 6.
1993First peal rung by Helen R Fox. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993First peal rung by Elizabeth J Richards. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993First peal rung by Rachel H Prince. Recorded peal total is 6.
1993First peal rung by Valerie A Wayte. Recorded peal total is 2.
1993First peal rung by Peter W McEvoy. Recorded peal total is 12.
1993First peal rung by Penelope J V Sharpe. Recorded peal total is 1009.
1995First peal rung by John [Hatfield] Nicholson. Recorded peal total is 10.
1995First peal rung by Ralf Rashbrook. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996First peal rung by Michael P Dennis. Recorded peal total is 4.
1998First peal rung by Angela M Branch. Recorded peal total is 4.
1999First peal rung by Matthew J Baines. Recorded peal total is 4.
1999First peal rung by Jonathan J Rider. Recorded peal total is 67.
1999First peal rung by Kevin A Carter. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999First peal rung by Toni [Bermondsey] Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999First peal rung by Kelvin J Stanley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999First peal rung by M Morag Todd. Recorded peal total is 4.
1999First peal rung by R Michael Todd. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000First peal rung by Malgosia E Hobson. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000First peal rung by Rachel A Bradley. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000First peal rung by Zoe L Bradley. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004First peal rung by Brian [Llandeilo] Price. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008First peal rung by Peter M Davey. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010First peal rung by Benjamin J Wigmore. Recorded peal total is 5.
2013First peal rung by Victoria C Gillman. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015First peal rung by Jenny G Robertson. Recorded peal total is 6.
2019First peal rung by Ben Mackervoy. Recorded peal total is 2.
2020First peal rung by Callum J Clark. Recorded peal total is 10.
2023First peal rung by Eliza O C Newton. Recorded peal total is 4.
2024First peal rung by Eden Turner. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 28th August

1821First peal on the bells at Worcester, St Helen, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 63.
1849First peal on the bells at Southampton, Holy Rood, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 7.
1875First peal on the bells at Bramley, Holy Trinity, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 21.
1883First peal on the bells at Sowton, St Michael & All Angels, Devon. Recorded peal total is 37.
1910First peal on the bells at Gestingthorpe, St Mary, Essex. Recorded peal total is 45.
1912First peal on the bells at Blaenavon, St Peter, Monmouthshire. Recorded peal total is 120.
1920First peal on the bells at Alveley, St Mary the Virgin, Shropshire. Recorded peal total is 15.
1927First peal on the bells at Claines, St John the Baptist, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 181.
1930First peal on the bells at Much Hadham, St Andrew, Hertfordshire. Recorded peal total is 27.
1939First peal on the bells at Grinton, St Andrew, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 8.
1952First peal on the bells at Nymet Tracey, Bow, St Bartholomew, Devon. Recorded peal total is 17.
1954First peal on the bells at Aldeby, St Mary, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 15.
1960First peal on the bells at Walkhampton, St Mary the Virgin, Devon. Recorded peal total is 12.
1961First peal on the bells at Launceston, St Thomas the Apostle, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 5.
1971First peal on the bells at Drewsteignton, Holy Trinity, Devon. Recorded peal total is 8.
1971First peal on the bells at Wicken, St Lawrence, Cambridgeshire. Recorded peal total is 3.
1978First peal on the bells at Winthorpe, St Mary, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in method for 28th August

1949First tower bell peal of Wordsworth Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 16.
1954First tower bell peal of Enfield Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 10.
1968First tower bell peal of Hungerford Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 13.
1971First tower bell peal of Ringwood Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1976First tower bell peal of Walton-le-Dale Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977First tower bell peal of Argyll Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 12.
1978First tower bell peal of Dehra Dun Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1979First tower bell peal of Silsden Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1982First tower bell peal of Evenley Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982First tower bell peal of Southern Cross Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1988First tower bell peal of Perth Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1988First tower bell peal of Ticknall Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
1989First tower bell peal of Bellingdon Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989First tower bell peal of Fenland Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 4.
1993First tower bell peal of Sacrewell Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1995First tower bell peal of Methoda Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996First tower bell peal of Hundert Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000First tower bell peal of Quercus Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2000First tower bell peal of Rowarth Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002First tower bell peal of Marfa Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2003First tower bell peal of Jarn Mound Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2004First tower bell peal of Brickyard Cottage Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2004First tower bell peal of Tettenhall Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004First tower bell peal of Thorpe Tilney Fen Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006First tower bell peal of Christ Church Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
2007First tower bell peal of Manthorpe Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
2012First tower bell peal of Knipton Alliance Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013First tower bell peal of Kirk Yetholm Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014First tower bell peal of Carn Eighe Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014First tower bell peal of Totnes Castle Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.