[Bell Historians] Number of ringers

[John Harrison]

In the RW report of the Sonning Deanery AGM in 1930 the chairman is quoted
as saying:

'The number of ringers in the country was 46,083 - 240 les than last year.
The year before that there were 410 more. The diocese of Oxford held
second place for numbers, the greatest number being in Exeter Diocese,
while Bath and Wells came third.'.

Such precise figures for different years suggest someone was tracking the
number in detail, and since the chairman, G F Coleridge, was also the CC
president at the time I assume it was the CC, collating figures supplied
by affiliated societies.

I've failed to find any mention of the topic in Council reports of the
time (1928, 1929, 1930).

The other possibility is that the information might have been gathered via
the Church rather than ringing societies.  The reference to Exeter rather
than Devon would support that.  

Is anyone aware of this work, and where it is recorded?

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