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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The Leeds ringers (Yorkshire) were ringing date touches in the late 1700s and early 1800s. These are meticulously recorded in the tower record books.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Andrew</div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, 6 January 2023 at 18:10:18 GMT, John Harrison <john@jaharrison.me.uk> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Does anyone know when the first date touch was rung?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">There's nothing in the Ringing World index earlier than the 1990s but I<br></div><div dir="ltr">was ringing date touches in the 60s and we didn't invent the idea so I<br></div><div dir="ltr">assume it was much earlier.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">John Harrison<br></div><div dir="ltr">Website <a href="http://jaharrison.me.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://jaharrison.me.uk</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Using 4té and ARMX6, both running RISC OS<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Bell-historians mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians</a><br></div></div>
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