The First False Peal
on the 8 bells at All Saints’ Pontefract

The Yorkshire Association of Change Ringers
Annual Report shows :-

PONTEFRACT, W Yorks, All Saints (12 Cwt)
Saturday 20 May 1905
Three hours eighteen minutes
5088 Kent TB Major
Composer A. Knights

Bell	Ringer	Bell	Ringer
1	W. Pease	2	W. Brook
3	G. Wilcock	4	J. Pease
5	B. Watkinson	6	A. Strangward
7	J. Fryer	8	T. Barker (C)
	First Peal 4,5&7 First in the method 1,3&6		First in the method as conductor.

The peal was published in "Bell News",
but subsequently the composition was found to be false,
so a withdrawal was published in the journal a few weeks later.

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Last Updated 24^th March 2020

The First False Peal on the 8 bells at All Saints’ Pontefract

The First False Peal
on the 8 bells at All Saints’ Pontefract