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Timeline

Patty Baldwin, November 2014

This timeline of Box was compiled by Patty Baldwin from information available at the time. To put it into context,we have added details of national events. Perhaps you can bring personal knowledge to some of these events and make the timeline even more accurate?

If you are able to add to or amend the Box details, Patty would like to hear from you, via the Contact tab.

Left: Ogilby's map of the area in 1675 shows the route into Box for travellers.
Box Events 1840 - now                                                                        National Events 1840 - now
1841 30th June Box Tunnel was opened, without ceremony
1851 Alice Sudell, sister-in-law of the vicar of Box, gave land at Henley to build additional schoolhouse (now Henley Cottage)
1857 George Pinchen lived at Hatt House
1857 Cemetery, Lodge and Chapel built on London Road by Poulton and Woodman of Reading
1864 100,000 tons of stone per year were being dispatched from Corsham Station, reaching Birmingham at 1s.5d per cubic foot, Plymouth for 1s.4d and Newcastle 1s.7d. Locally stone only cost 6d per cubic foot.
1864 Box Brewery built in Market Place
1865 Quarryman's Arms rebuilt as beer-house
1867 Free Methodist Chapel built on Box Hill
1869 Kingsdown Methodist Chapel built
1870 Box Cricket Club founded at The Chequers Inn
1875 Box Church of England Schools built by Bladwells of Bath.
1875 Rudloe Park Hotel was built for HR Pictor by James Hicks
1877 Poynder Fountain was erected in the centre of the village
1879 Box Poorhouse sold for private residences
1880 Adult House was built as an Adult Evening School
1880 Kingsdown Golf Club formed at The Swan Inn
1881 Fogleigh House built for quarry owner CJ Pictor
1887 Amalgamation of several local quarries into Bath Stone Firms Limited
1896 Parish Council formed
1897 The Parish Council authorised a two-faced clock to be built at Box School at a cost of £65
1897 Methodist Chapel opened on High Street
1897 St Thomas à Becket Church restored
1906 Methodist school room and hall built
1906 Bingham Hall built
1906 Box Rifle Club founded
1907 Roman Villa excavated by Sir Harold Brakspeare
1910 Box Scouts formed
1912 Sale of the Northey Estate
1920 War Memorial dedicated
1920 Longsplatt stone quarry closed
1924 Box Girl Guides formed
1925 Mr Kidston gave the Recreation Ground to the village
1929 The Bassetts built
1930 Box Halt at Mill Lane opened
1935 Electricity installed at St Thomas
à Becket church
1937 Library started in Bingham Hall
1940 German airmen temporarily buried in the village
1940 Evacuation of London children to Box
1942 Underground aircraft factories built at Hawthorne, Leafield and Box Hill
1943 Box Highlands School (now Corsham Primary) established at Box Fields
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 The old 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 The Chequers Inn in the Market Place converted to private house
2014 The Bear ceased trading as a pub
1842 Peacetime Income Tax introduced
1845 SS Great Britain sails to USA
1845 Irish Potato Famine
1846 Repeal of Corn Laws
1851 Great Exhibition opens
1854 Crimean War
1859 Darwin's Origin of Species published
1861 Prince Albert dies
1863 London Underground started
1864 John Hanning Speke dies
1865
Lister develops antiseptics
1866
Barnardos Homes started
1867
Second Electoral Reform Act
1867 Nelson's Column built
1868 Disraeli then Gladstone became Prime Minister
1869 Suez Canal opened
1870 Charles Dickens dies
1870
Compulsory primary schools
1872 Agricultural Labourers Trade Union formed
1872
First Football Cup Final
1876
Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India
1880 Compulsory education for under 10s
1881 First domestic electric light
1883 Married women allowed to own property
1883 Robert Louis Stevenson writes Treasure Island
1888 Jack the Ripper stalks London
1891 Thomas Hardy writes Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1894
Parish Councils formed
1897 Marconi invents radio
1899 Second Boer War starts
1900 Relief of Mafeking
1901
Labour Party formed
1901 Queen Victoria dies
1908 Olympic Games in London
1908 Old Age pension started
1911 National insurance against sickness and unemployment
1912 Titanic sunk
1914 World War 1 starts
1917 Russian revolution
1918 Flu epidemic in UK
1919 Paris Peace Conference ends WW1
1926 Baird invents television
1927 BBC started
1928 All women get the vote
1929 Wall Street crash starts Great Depression
1936 Edward VIII abdicates in favour of George VI
1936 Jarrow march of unemployed to London
1939 Start of World War 2
1942 USA enters the WW2
1944 Free secondary education starts
1945 End of World War 2
1948 National Health Service formed
1951 Festival of Britain
1952 George VI dies, Elizabeth II succeeds to throne
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 dies
2001 World Trade Centre bombed 9/11
2003 Invasion of Iraq

This timeline starts with the opening of Box Tunnel. We are going to publish earlier details in subsequent issues of the website. Meanwhile, you can see more of Box's timeline at http://www.boxparish.org.uk

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