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Box Schools built in 1875 (courtesy Rose Ledbury)
Timeline, 1870-1914

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?


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Box Events                                                                                              National Events
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 firms 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
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1870 Charles Dickens died
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 Act passed against sickness and unemployment
1912 Titanic sunk
1914 World War 1 started
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