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Inter-war Timeline 1918 - 1939 Alan Payne December 2021 Are you able to tell us about any corrections needed or to add any details to the Box events listed below? If so, we would love to hear from you, directly or via the Contact tab. Right: Arthur Paul Brooke on his motorbike at an unknown location in Kingsdown Photograph courtesy John Brooke Flashman |
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1919 Sale of Elizabeth Noble’s properties
1919 Northey Estate Sale of Box part 1 1919 Box Nursing Association formed 1919 George Kidston bought Hazelbury Manor 1920 War Memorial dedicated 1920 Memorial Fete 1920 Longsplatt stone quarry closed 1921 Box Swimming Club formed 1921 Motor bike trials started 1921 Stone miners’ strike 1922 Henry Druett appointed Box School headmaster 1923 Northey Estate Sale part 2 1924 Box Girl Guides formed 1924 George Foster came to Box 1925 Co-operative Society shop opened 1925 Hazelbury Pageant 1925-33 Rev George and Mrs Foster start a series of plays with religious basis 1925 Hazelbury Chapel restored 1926 Railmen strike in Box 1926 Recreation Ground gifted to Box 1927-28 Box influenza epidemic 1929 The Bassetts built 1930 Mill Lane Halt opened 1931 Barn Piece Council houses 1932 United Free Methodist merger 1933 Box Employment Scheme started 1933 Mothers’ Union banner dedicated 1933 Box Harvest Festival Service broadcast 1935 Great Storm floods Box 1935 Electricity installed in Box Church 1936 War Office buys some Box quarries 1937 Library started in Bingham Hall 1938 The Ley council houses built |
1918 Fisher's Education Act for children to age 14
1918 First time some women voted 1918 Flu epidemic in UK 1918 IRA formed, starting guerilla war in Ireland 1919 Paris Peace Conference ended WW1 1919 League of Nations formed 1919 Ministry of Reconstruction formed 1919 Ministry of Health Act 1921 Agriculture Minimum Wages abandoned 1921 Forestry Commission founded 1922 Conservatives replaced Lloyd George’s Coalition 1922 Eire became independent 1923 Mussolini appointed leader in Italy 1924 Council Housing Act 1924 Empire Exhibition at Wembly 1924 Ramsay Macdonald minority government 1925 Gold Standard reintroduced 1926 General Strike 1926 National electricity grid started 1926 Baird invented television 1927 BBC started by getting royal charter 1928 All women get the vote 1928 The Flapper election - Ransey Macdonald PM 1929 Wall Street crash started Great Depression 1931 Road Traffic Act introduced 1932 George V Empire radio broadcast 1933 Hitler became German Chancellor 1933 National Coalition government 1935 King George V Silver Jubilee 1936 Edward VIII abdicated in favour of George VI 1936 Jarrow march of unemployed to London 1937 Public Order Act against British Fascist marches 1938 Chamerlain's "Peace in our time" speech 1939 Start of World War 2 |