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Modern Timeline

Alan Payne, Date

This timeline Perhaps you can bring personal knowledge to some of these events and make the timeline even more accurate?


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Box Events 1945 - 2000                                              National Events 1945 - 2000

1945 Bargates built on the old Fete Field
1954 New Scout Hall built
1957 Rising Sun Inn explosion on Box Hill
1964 Box Railway Station and Halt closed
1967 Singer Frankie Vaughan visits Box

1967 The Lamb Inn on Devizes Road closed
1968 Vine Court built
1969 Selwyn Hall and Library built
1970 Bingham Hall closed
1977 Jubilee Youth Centre redeveloped
1978 Parish Council took over Box Common
1982 Box Revels started
1983 Box School new entrance built
1998 Lovar water garden built
2000 Millennium Woods donated by George Lacy

2008 Chequers Inn, Market Place converted to private house
2014 The Bear ceased trading as a pub

1948 National Health Service formed
1951 Festival of Britain
1952 George VI died, Elizabeth II succeeded
1955 ITV starts
1965 Death penalty abolished
1966 England win World Cup
1969 Concorde makes first flight
1971 Decimalisation of currency
1973 Britain joins EEC
1978 Winter of Discontent
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
1982 Falklands War
1984 Miners' Strike
1990 Poll tax riots
1991 First Iraq War
1997 Princess Diana died
2001 World Trade Centre bombed 9/11
2003 Invasion of Iraq