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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 29th August

Year	Event	Reference
1765	The local ringers at Kidderminster rang a peal of 5040 Grandsire Triples.	nv
1768	The St Martins Youths rang a peal of 6120 Grandsire Caters at St Martins, Birmingham, composed and conducted by John Archer.	nv
1814	“The London Packet” of September 12, 1814 recorded that on this day a peal was rung at Otley, Yorks of 12,320 New Treble Bob (Major) in 7 hours and 15 minutes. Two ringers were required for the second, and two more for the fourth. David Smith, who “called ye peal”, didn't take part in the ringing!	RW1911/375
1906	A novel attempt at preventing a peal from being successfully concluded was made at Ripley, Derbys during a Cambridge University peal week. An anonymous telegram was sent to the band, imploring them to stop “if they had any mercy”. The steeple keeper managed to divert the telegram boy till the peal had finished!	nv
1926	The new Taylor ring of twelve for York Minster was dedicated on this day. See 4 July 1844. The service was broadcast, and many ringers from all over the country heard the first rounds on twelve.
1940	Alfred Bowell, the last of the Ipswich bellfounders, died, aged 66.	nv
1981	The first peal of Bristol Surprise Maximus to be rung at a tower outside the United Kingdom was at Dublin, rung by a visiting band from the St Martin's Guild.	nv
1991	The newly cast ring of 16 at St Martin, Birmingham all rang out for the first time.	nv

Birthdays for 29th August

First pealers for 29th August

1896	First peal rung by Robert Grimwood. Recorded peal total is 40.
1896	First peal rung by Arthur Keeble. Recorded peal total is 26.
1896	First peal rung by William [Penkridge] Bennett. Recorded peal total is 4.
1896	First peal rung by T [Stafford] Machin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1896	First peal rung by Alfred Moreton. Recorded peal total is 7.
1896	First peal rung by H [Stafford] Mountford. Recorded peal total is 2.
1896	First peal rung by W [Stafford] Mountford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1896	First peal rung by Robert Pickering. Recorded peal total is 226.
1896	First peal rung by Thomas [Stafford] Thompson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1885	First peal rung by George W Cartmel. Recorded peal total is 8.
1903	First peal rung by Alfred [Putney] Jones. Recorded peal total is 22.
1903	First peal rung by Albert Humphrey. Recorded peal total is 16.
1903	First peal rung by Arthur Latham. Recorded peal total is 32.
1910	First peal rung by William Lynes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1912	First peal rung by William [Aberavon] Smith. Recorded peal total is 4.
1914	First peal rung by Charles Dennett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by George E Dixon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by John Dugdale. Recorded peal total is 2.
1914	First peal rung by Harry Ellis. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by William E [Freiston] Clarke. Recorded peal total is 182.
1925	First peal rung by Edward J Jenner. Recorded peal total is 190.
1925	First peal rung by Miss M Ringrose. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925	First peal rung by Eric B Rouse. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925	First peal rung by Herbert T Jermy. Recorded peal total is 9.
1925	First peal rung by Edmund G Kett. Recorded peal total is 12.
1925	First peal rung by John [Rowley Regis] Brown. Recorded peal total is 1.
1926	First peal rung by William J Davies. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Frederick Merrick. Recorded peal total is 37.
1931	First peal rung by Ronald Cook. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Frederick Linney. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by James G Newman. Recorded peal total is 113.
1931	First peal rung by Frank Tickle. Recorded peal total is 2.
1931	First peal rung by Harry Tyrell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by John [Sedlescombe] Wood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1932	First peal rung by Richard W R Coates. Recorded peal total is 35.
1932	First peal rung by Albert E Coleman. Recorded peal total is 32.
1932	First peal rung by Andrew L Whatling. Recorded peal total is 9.
1937	First peal rung by Roy Mann. Recorded peal total is 13.
1944	First peal rung by John N Hartshorne. Recorded peal total is 1.
1944	First peal rung by Michael P Moreton. Recorded peal total is 2133.
1947	First peal rung by Peter T Robbins. Recorded peal total is 163.
1945	First peal rung by A Victor Corden. Recorded peal total is 1.
1948	First peal rung by Sidney A White. Recorded peal total is 15.
1948	First peal rung by Derek Whitford. Recorded peal total is 38.
1950	First peal rung by E Winifred Keys. Recorded peal total is 578.
1951	First peal rung by Anthony J Baker. Recorded peal total is 10.
1951	First peal rung by Alan C Cozens. Recorded peal total is 185.
1955	First peal rung by Brenda E Downing. Recorded peal total is 26.
1955	First peal rung by Robert F Downing. Recorded peal total is 28.
1955	First peal rung by Paul Mace. Recorded peal total is 3.
1959	First peal rung by Donald G Lawson. Recorded peal total is 261.
1959	First peal rung by Hilary N Donoghue. Recorded peal total is 55.
1959	First peal rung by Kenneth Kirk. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First peal rung by Robert C Burton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964	First peal rung by John L Hill. Recorded peal total is 3.
1964	First peal rung by Paul Raithby. Recorded peal total is 79.
1966	First peal rung by Colin V Coombs. Recorded peal total is 3.
1966	First peal rung by Robert H Randall. Recorded peal total is 3.
1966	First peal rung by David N Wenden. Recorded peal total is 15.
1966	First peal rung by Paul W D Miller. Recorded peal total is 37.
1967	First peal rung by Gail Cater. Recorded peal total is 605.
1967	First peal rung by Robert Cater. Recorded peal total is 481.
1969	First peal rung by V Jane Hill. Recorded peal total is 3.
1970	First peal rung by Julia H Whitehead. Recorded peal total is 4.
1970	First peal rung by Peter E Hine. Recorded peal total is 3.
1970	First peal rung by Philip C Evans. Recorded peal total is 2.
1971	First peal rung by Alan L Phillips. Recorded peal total is 1.
1975	First peal rung by Ronald E J Shepherd. Recorded peal total is 164.
1977	First peal rung by Aileen Agnew. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Anne D Hayman. Recorded peal total is 209.
1977	First peal rung by Michael J Hall. Recorded peal total is 131.
1977	First peal rung by Catherine V Platt. Recorded peal total is 3.
1977	First peal rung by Hilary Roberts. Recorded peal total is 4.
1977	First peal rung by Susan Roberts. Recorded peal total is 2.
1977	First peal rung by Hilary A Squire. Recorded peal total is 2.
1977	First peal rung by Jacqueline Roberts. Recorded peal total is 15.
1978	First peal rung by Leslie A Godlington. Recorded peal total is 3.
1981	First peal rung by John F Oldfield. Recorded peal total is 103.
1981	First peal rung by Virginia L Olding. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First peal rung by Debra J Beesley. Recorded peal total is 3.
1982	First peal rung by David [Wrotham] Bird. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First peal rung by Nichola J Grimshaw. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by Mary T Pipe. Recorded peal total is 129.
1984	First peal rung by Hugh F Nickerson. Recorded peal total is 12.
1986	First peal rung by Rebecca Cubitt. Recorded peal total is 93.
1987	First peal rung by Norma V A Johnston. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by David [Lubenham] Townsend. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by Simon Barnsley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Lynda M Coles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by David J Baverstock. Recorded peal total is 620.
1991	First peal rung by John D Boniface. Recorded peal total is 10.
1992	First peal rung by Bernard Pipe. Recorded peal total is 3.
1992	First peal rung by Judith M Hartley. Recorded peal total is 256.
1993	First peal rung by Daniel J Martin. Recorded peal total is 14.
1994	First peal rung by Edwin G [Bedford] Lambert. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First peal rung by Kathy G Bromage. Recorded peal total is 7.
1995	First peal rung by John A Chantry. Recorded peal total is 7.
1997	First peal rung by Clare G Andrews. Recorded peal total is 29.
1998	First peal rung by Gary Blades. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First peal rung by D Ian Johnson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First peal rung by Richard Heath. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First peal rung by Janet Parham. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First peal rung by Sharon Bradley. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First peal rung by Anna E Sherwood. Recorded peal total is 171.
2022	First peal rung by Freddie Crowley. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 29th August

1792	First peal on the bells at Hinckley, Assumption of S Mary the Virgin, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 76.
1810	First peal on the bells at Darlaston, St Lawrence, Staffordshire. Recorded peal total is 81.
1903	First peal on the bells at Poole, St James, Dorset. Recorded peal total is 40.
1926	First peal on the bells at Michaelchurch Escley, St Michael, Herefordshire. Recorded peal total is 4.
1931	First peal on the bells at Bulwick, St Nicholas, Northamptonshire. Recorded peal total is 12.
1931	First peal on the bells at Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne, SS James & Basil, Northumberland. Recorded peal total is 78.
1936	First peal on the bells at North Perrott, St Martin, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 21.
1936	First peal on the bells at Yoxford, St Peter, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 31.
1951	First peal on the bells at St Columb Minor, St Columba, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 13.
1959	First peal on the bells at Lowdham, St Mary the Virgin, Nottinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 33.
1965	First peal on the bells at Froxfield, St Peter, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 20.
2003	First peal on the bells at Willoughby on the Wolds, Willoughby Campanile, Nottinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 4.

First peals in method for 29th August

1953	First tower bell peal of Huntspill Bob Doubles. Recorded peal total is 2.
1959	First tower bell peal of Dedworth Bob Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First tower bell peal of Preston Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 25.
1966	First tower bell peal of Single Oxford Bob Caters. Recorded peal total is 3.
1975	First tower bell peal of Whitway Bob Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First tower bell peal of Kildwick Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First tower bell peal of Stratton St Margaret Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First tower bell peal of Mandessedum Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1982	First tower bell peal of Durham Little Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First tower bell peal of Barnard Castle Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First tower bell peal of Owston Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
1992	First tower bell peal of Knutsford Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Lahinch Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Vowchurch Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of Burnley Supreme Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of Minerve Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of Whitehaven Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 4.
1994	First tower bell peal of Xyts Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
1996	First tower bell peal of Hook Norton Manor Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1997	First tower bell peal of Judgement Day Alliance Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Little Blakenham Little Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First tower bell peal of Chianti Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2003	First tower bell peal of Wesley Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First tower bell peal of Dewsbury Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of Fairbourne Heath Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Monksville Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of Fylde Coast Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Xixabangma Feng Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.