On This Day - 1 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 1st April

YearEventReference
1727The Norwich Scholars rang "... a remarkable peal, called the Quarter-peal of Oxford Treble Bob, all eight in, or the Union Bob, consisting of 10,080 changes, in six hours and twenty-eight minutes..." This peal, composed by John Garthon and conducted by Edward Crane, was the first double length peal rung. It was rung at St Michael, Coslany the year after they were augmented to eight. Thomas Gardiner, who rang the fifth, was one of the last of the Norwich founders. He also took part in the first recorded peal at St Peter Mancroft on May 2, 1715.TB5
1755The Cumberland Youths rang the first peal of Cumberland Pleasure Major on the bells at St Mary, Whitechapel. All details of the method rung have been lost.CuY24
1887The ringers at Morpeth were evidently Tories, for when an open meeting was held in the Market Place by the Socialists they told some of the audience they would soon stop Mr Fielden's address, and going into the old clock tower began practising! His voice was not equal to the task, and he had to give in.nv
1888The ring of nine bells - an octave plus one half note - at Maryborough, Queensland was opened on this day. The donor of the bells and tower, Mr E T Aldridge, invited the Sidney ringers to open the bells, and paid all their expenses for a week to stay and teach a band of learners.nv
1893A ring of six, made up of three old and three new bells, were dedicated at North Stoneham, Hants. It is now a ring of ten.nv
1915The new ring of eight, recently installed in the newly erected tower of Christ Church, Erith, Kent were rung for the first time. Many peals were to be rung on these bells in subsequent years.nv
1929The first peal in more than one method on twelve bells was a peal of spliced Cambridge and Superlative Surprise Maximus, rung on this day at Chelmsford.nv

Birthdays for 1st April

First pealers for 1st April

1903First peal rung by Joseph H Carr. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903First peal rung by John [Kingsley] Moreton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1902First peal rung by William Willson_jun. Recorded peal total is 46.
1905First peal rung by Hugh Hills. Recorded peal total is 11.
1905First peal rung by William Lidbetter. Recorded peal total is 14.
1905First peal rung by Shenley Rose. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905First peal rung by George W King. Recorded peal total is 4.
1905First peal rung by William W Thompson. Recorded peal total is 5.
1907First peal rung by Albert H Whittington. Recorded peal total is 8.
1907First peal rung by William [Kirton] Hollingsworth. Recorded peal total is 3.
1907First peal rung by Richard Walker. Recorded peal total is 2.
1907First peal rung by Ernest E Bish. Recorded peal total is 22.
1907First peal rung by J [Ditchling] Driver. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907First peal rung by W [Ditchling] Horner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907First peal rung by J [Ditchling] Parsons. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907First peal rung by J [Ditching] Standing. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907First peal rung by S [Ditchling] Wells. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907First peal rung by Henry Northfield. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907First peal rung by Adam Small. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907First peal rung by Joscelin M Turner. Recorded peal total is 14.
1907First peal rung by Edward Benford. Recorded peal total is 2.
1907First peal rung by Thomas [Narborough] Haines. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907First peal rung by Charles Hubbard. Recorded peal total is 4.
1907First peal rung by George Hubbard. Recorded peal total is 2.
1907First peal rung by Robert Stanley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1909First peal rung by Frank H Davy. Recorded peal total is 2.
1909First peal rung by William W Goodbourn. Recorded peal total is 9.
1909First peal rung by Arthur C Tyrrell. Recorded peal total is 3.
1911First peal rung by Charles [Wolverhampton] Bailey. Recorded peal total is 6.
1911First peal rung by George Claybrook. Recorded peal total is 10.
1911First peal rung by Arthur Everson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1911First peal rung by Andrew [Blakenhall] Jones. Recorded peal total is 15.
1911First peal rung by Bernard Smith. Recorded peal total is 2.
1911First peal rung by William [Wissett] Kemp. Recorded peal total is 2.
1911First peal rung by Frederick Lambert_jun. Recorded peal total is 3.
1914First peal rung by David Turner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914First peal rung by Albert Crack. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914First peal rung by Albert [Suffolk] Foster. Recorded peal total is 1.
1918First peal rung by Louis French. Recorded peal total is 2.
1922First peal rung by Frederick A Finch. Recorded peal total is 108.
1922First peal rung by Leonard [Kempston] Turner. Recorded peal total is 7.
1924First peal rung by Jack Carman. Recorded peal total is 32.
1924First peal rung by A E Bamford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924First peal rung by J R Barlow. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924First peal rung by G W Greenwood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933First peal rung by William F Woodward. Recorded peal total is 199.
1933First peal rung by William Hopwood. Recorded peal total is 14.
1933First peal rung by Charles R Collins. Recorded peal total is 14.
1933First peal rung by Thomas G Martin. Recorded peal total is 12.
1933First peal rung by Evelyn Head. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933First peal rung by Wilfred A Waylen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1937First peal rung by Harold Parfrement. Recorded peal total is 10.
1937First peal rung by John Lunn. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939First peal rung by Cyril E Smith. Recorded peal total is 6.
1939First peal rung by Eric H Butler. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939First peal rung by George [Meopham] Turner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939First peal rung by George T Vanderpeer. Recorded peal total is 3.
1944First peal rung by Ernest Short. Recorded peal total is 39.
1949First peal rung by Stanley Body. Recorded peal total is 3.
1949First peal rung by Oliver Pole. Recorded peal total is 3.
1950First peal rung by E Ann Rose. Recorded peal total is 4.
1950First peal rung by Leonard A Reece. Recorded peal total is 5.
1950First peal rung by Leonard Straker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950First peal rung by Alfred T Taylor. Recorded peal total is 2.
1950First peal rung by Paul Fisher. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959First peal rung by Antony Jackson. Recorded peal total is 20.
1961First peal rung by Michael J Billings. Recorded peal total is 2.
1963First peal rung by Diana J Fletcher. Recorded peal total is 4.
1963First peal rung by Colin A Osbon. Recorded peal total is 10.
1963First peal rung by R Jean Osbon. Recorded peal total is 30.
1963First peal rung by Roger H Peters. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964First peal rung by Cynthia M Wells. Recorded peal total is 18.
1964First peal rung by Christopher A S Allsop. Recorded peal total is 5.
1964First peal rung by Edward Aldridge. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964First peal rung by Gerald W Partridge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1965First peal rung by Peter A Over. Recorded peal total is 2.
1965First peal rung by Graham A Evans. Recorded peal total is 9.
1946First peal rung by Gordon W Rendell. Recorded peal total is 88.
1967First peal rung by Freda Lacey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967First peal rung by George L Askew. Recorded peal total is 10.
1967First peal rung by Albert E Hole. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967First peal rung by Richard A O Lewis. Recorded peal total is 2.
1967First peal rung by Timothy H O Lewis. Recorded peal total is 36.
1967First peal rung by Heather Cottrell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967First peal rung by David Coxhill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967First peal rung by David R Randall. Recorded peal total is 20.
1967First peal rung by Angela C Johnson. Recorded peal total is 12.
1967First peal rung by Jill P Parr. Recorded peal total is 19.
1969First peal rung by John E [Ulceby] Plant. Recorded peal total is 4.
1972First peal rung by David Lightfoot. Recorded peal total is 13.
1972First peal rung by David C Everett. Recorded peal total is 536.
1974First peal rung by J Howard Percy. Recorded peal total is 119.
1975First peal rung by Michael P Robins. Recorded peal total is 3.
1977First peal rung by Michael J James. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978First peal rung by Matthew J Bradwell. Recorded peal total is 39.
1978First peal rung by Martin Woods. Recorded peal total is 2.
1978First peal rung by David J Hodges. Recorded peal total is 5.
1978First peal rung by Hazel Warren. Recorded peal total is 2.
1978First peal rung by Gordon P Eggleton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978First peal rung by Janet M Eggleton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978First peal rung by Alan J Mayes. Recorded peal total is 2.
1979First peal rung by Derek Budgen. Recorded peal total is 2.
1979First peal rung by Keith C Davies. Recorded peal total is 3.
1979First peal rung by Anthony D Petter. Recorded peal total is 30.
1981First peal rung by Juliet R Lawrance. Recorded peal total is 206.
1982First peal rung by Bridget E Osmond. Recorded peal total is 19.
1984First peal rung by Neil J Garner. Recorded peal total is 86.
1984First peal rung by Catherine Leeming. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984First peal rung by Gill Daker. Recorded peal total is 2.
1984First peal rung by Peter D Daker. Recorded peal total is 54.
1986First peal rung by Helen J Wallace. Recorded peal total is 2.
1986First peal rung by Rosemary D Wallace. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986First peal rung by Sandra A Wallace. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986First peal rung by Jeremy S Cummins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986First peal rung by Robert S Cummins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986First peal rung by Sarah K Beacham. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986First peal rung by Simon P Chambers. Recorded peal total is 18.
1987First peal rung by Jonathan Blackhurst. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987First peal rung by Peter Buxton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1987First peal rung by Neal Henley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987First peal rung by Shona M Macgregor. Recorded peal total is 4.
1990First peal rung by Robert A Schofield. Recorded peal total is 5.
1990First peal rung by Keith A Player. Recorded peal total is 5.
1990First peal rung by Bryan Reeves. Recorded peal total is 14.
1990First peal rung by Jean M [Dublin] Thompson. Recorded peal total is 10.
1991First peal rung by Andrew Harding. Recorded peal total is 2.
1991First peal rung by Michael D Manton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991First peal rung by Stephen M J Came. Recorded peal total is 5.
1991First peal rung by Margaret J Armitage. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991First peal rung by Judith L E Evans. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991First peal rung by Alan P Curtis. Recorded peal total is 18.
1995First peal rung by Hugh Hassard-Jones. Recorded peal total is 5.
1997First peal rung by Betty Sutcliffe. Recorded peal total is 15.
1999First peal rung by David Banaszek. Recorded peal total is 4.
2000First peal rung by Christopher F Funnell. Recorded peal total is 5.
2000First peal rung by Judy M Hunt. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000First peal rung by Peter R [Swithland] Hunt. Recorded peal total is 4.
2000First peal rung by Sue Saunders. Recorded peal total is 2.
2001First peal rung by Janet E Stockton. Recorded peal total is 3.
2002First peal rung by Paul A Hayward. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006First peal rung by Jennifer R White. Recorded peal total is 2.
2007First peal rung by Douglas H Kitson. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011First peal rung by David Katz. Recorded peal total is 36.
2013First peal rung by Mike Prentice. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014First peal rung by Katie E Noble. Recorded peal total is 2.
2014First peal rung by William N Evans. Recorded peal total is 6.
2018First peal rung by Adam Wilmott. Recorded peal total is 7.
2023First peal rung by Robert J Carr. Recorded peal total is 2.
2023First peal rung by James C Mundy. Recorded peal total is 12.

First peals in towers for 1st April

1727First peal on the bells at Norwich, St Michael at Coslany, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 132.
1732First peal on the bells at Greenwich, St Alfege, Kent. Recorded peal total is 208.
1782First peal on the bells at Rotherham, All Saints, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 1016.
1888First peal on the bells at Mossley, St George, Lancashire. Recorded peal total is 66.
1907First peal on the bells at Badwell Ash, St Mary, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 6.
1907First peal on the bells at Narborough, All Saints, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 9.
1911First peal on the bells at Buxton, St Andrew, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 77.
1913First peal on the bells at Halsall, St Cuthbert, Lancashire. Recorded peal total is 120.
1916First peal on the bells at Over, St Chad, Cheshire. Recorded peal total is 102.
1933First peal on the bells at Corringham, St Lawrence, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 14.
1948First peal on the bells at Ash in Martock, Holy Trinity, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 29.
1950First peal on the bells at Chacombe, SS Peter & Paul, Northamptonshire. Recorded peal total is 8.
1950First peal on the bells at Eyam, St Lawrence, Derbyshire. Recorded peal total is 53.
1970First peal on the bells at Manston, St Nicholas, Dorset. Recorded peal total is 5.
1984First peal on the bells at Hingham, Memorial Hall Campanile, Massachusetts. Recorded peal total is 16.
1991First peal on the bells at Warkleigh, St John the Evangelist, Devon. Recorded peal total is 5.
2002First peal on the bells at Farway, St Michael & All Angels, Devon. Recorded peal total is 9.

First peals in method for 1st April

1755First tower bell peal of Cumberland Pleasure Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1939First tower bell peal of Napsbury Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1950First tower bell peal of Pontefract Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 28.
1951First tower bell peal of Hanbury Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 14.
1964First tower bell peal of Heene Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1967First tower bell peal of Xenophon Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 12.
1970First tower bell peal of All Fools Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 3.
1978First tower bell peal of All Fools' Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1986First tower bell peal of Carlisle Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
1989First tower bell peal of Okeover Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992First tower bell peal of Velvet Bottom Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1994First tower bell peal of Spratton Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995First tower bell peal of Abravannus Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995First tower bell peal of Chilterns Delight Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996First tower bell peal of Osferdebie Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1997First tower bell peal of Hacconby Fen Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997First tower bell peal of Swindon Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1998First tower bell peal of Blackburn with Darwen Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998First tower bell peal of Rudan Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002First tower bell peal of Mercia Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 7.
2003First tower bell peal of Quaffle Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008First tower bell peal of All Fools Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008First tower bell peal of April Day Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008First tower bell peal of Hainton Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009First tower bell peal of St Saviourgate Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011First tower bell peal of Aberdare St Elvan Place Triples. Recorded peal total is 2.
2014First tower bell peal of Great Orchard Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014First tower bell peal of Xylocopa Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016First tower bell peal of Catuvellauni Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016First tower bell peal of Courteenhall Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016First tower bell peal of Matrimonial Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.