|
Modern Timeline
Alan Payne December 2022 What Box event was important to you in the years after the Second World War? We welcome your personal knowledge to make the timeline even more accurate. If you are able to add to or amend the Box details, we would like to hear from you, via the Contact tab. Left: Box Pavilion in construction on The Rec (courtesy Brian Palmer) |
Box Events 1945 - on National Events 1945 - on
|
1949 WW2 plaques on War Memorial 1951 Bargates and Brunel Way built 1954 New Scout Hall built 1954 Box School became Primary only 1955 Tom Selwyn-Smith became vicar 1957 Rising Sun Inn explosion on Box Hill 1957 Hungarian Refugees at Thornypits 1963 Any Questions recorded in Box 1965 Box Station and Mill Lane Halt closed 1965 Council acquired Springfield Workhouse 1967 Singer Frankie Vaughan opened Boys Club 1967 The Lamb Inn on Devizes Road closed 1968 Vine Court built 1968 Copenacre expanded 1969 Selwyn Hall and Library built 1969 Box School Swimming Pool built 1970 Bingham Hall closed 1970 Becket Martyrdom plays started 1971 Vicarage fire 1972 Boxleigh WI formed 1973 Girls School at Hazelbury closed 1977 Jubilee Youth Centre redeveloped 1978 Parish Council took over Box Hill Common 1979 Link started 1980 Box Luncheon Club started 1980 Box Pantomime started 1982 Box Revels started 1983 Box School new entrance built 1987 Peter Gabriel bought Box Mill 1987 Richmond Fellowship bought Kingsmoor 1988 Box won Best Kept Village 1989 Road crash on Box Bridge 1990 Best Kept Village winner again 1991 A Devil's Device community play 1993 John Flory appointed vicar 1996 Copenacre closed 1997 Lovar water garden opened 1998 Death of teacher Bert Swan 1999 Norman Haines appointed MBE 2000 Millennium Woods donated by George Lacy 2001 Vicar John Flory left vicarage 2002 Gardeners Question Time recorded 2002 Duke of Kent visited Box 2002 Methodist Church renovated 2002 Richard Snow appointed vicar 2003 Tom Selwyn-Smith died 2005 Liz Porter appointed MBE 2005 Box School Reunion 2008 Chequers Inn converted to private house 2008 Larkrise to Candleford screened 2009 Camilla Queen Consort visited and opened Pavilion 2014 The Bear ceased trading as a pub |
1946 Bank of England nationaised 1946 Television licences started 1947 Marshall Plan started 1947 School leaving age raised to 15 1947-48 Freezing winter restricted domestic electricity 1948 National Health Service formed 1948 London Olympic Games 1948 Berlin airlift 1951 Festival of Britain 1952 George VI died, Elizabeth II succeeded 1953 Coronation of Elizabeth II 1953 North Sea Floods 1955 ITV started 1962-63 The Big Freeze 1965 Death penalty abolished 1966 England won World Cup 1969 Concorde first flight 1971 Decimalisation of currency 1973 Britain joined EEC 1973 Yom Kippur war 1978 Winter of Discontent strikes 1979 Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister 1979 Right-to-buy council houses 1981 Yorkshire Ripper found 1981 IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died 1982 Falklands War 1983 £1 coin introduced 1983 Seat-belts compulsory 1984 Miners' Strike after 21 mines shut 1987 The Great Storm 1990 Poll tax opposition 1991 First Iraq War 1991 IRA mortar attack on Downing Street 1995 Commemoration of end of WW2 1997 Tony Blair became PM 1997 Princess Diana died 2000 Millennium Dome opened 2001 World Trade Centre bombed 9/11 2001 Foot & Mouth in Britain 2001 Afghanistan war started 2002 Queen's Golden Jubilee 2003 Iraq war started 2004 Facebook started 2005 London bombings 7/7 2007 I-phone launched 2008 Global financial crisis 2010 Austerity cuts started 2012 London Olympics 2016 Brexit vote |