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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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Box Events                                                                                                National Events 
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

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