[Bell Historians] Peal discrepancy

[Graham John]

Sue Marsden wrote:

> I've just added a peal board photo to BellBoard for St Andrew's Rugby. The
>> peal board gives the date as Saturday February 18th 1911, and
>> Belll News 1509:678 (Mar4th)  and Felstead give it as Wednesday January
>> 18th 1911. Has this been noticed before and if so which has been accepted
>> as the correct date?
>> https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=2007214
>>
>
The Bell News peal report was printed in the 4 March 1911 edition. Looking
at all the other peals reported in that issue, they are from the same week
as 18 January, which aligns with the Wednesday date given in Bell News p678
and in Felstead.

By contrast, peals rung on Saturday 18 February do not appear in Bell News
until three weeks later, in the 25 March edition. While that isn’t absolute
proof, the reporting pattern strongly supports the January 18th date over
what is shown on the peal board.

For the opposite to be the case, Bell News would have needed to expedite
the type-setting of the (mis-dated) peal report by three weeks to print it
alongside peals of a similar date. That seems unlikely.

Graham
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