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A LIST OF HUCKNALL DATES


Timeline

1086 - Domesday Book compiled. Hucknall is called Hochenale
1154 - William Peverel fled and his estates seized by the Crown
1170 - Newstead Abbey founded. [Its correct name is Newstead Priory]
1180 - (approximately) Money given by Geoffrey Torkard for erection of tower and nave of St. Mary's church
1189 - Geoffrey Torkard gives 120 acres of Hucknall land to Newstead Priory
1199 - A fine is levied between Geoffrey Torkard and Maud, his wife and William Pitie of two knights fees (400 acres) in Hucknall and Lamcote
1247 - Grant from Henry lll to Newstead Priory of the site given by Henry ll
1251 - Gift from Henry lll to Newstead Priory of 10 acres of land
1288 - Land held by Newstead Priory included Hucknall Torkard
1297 - Thomas Torcard was vicar of Hucknall
1320 - Building work at St. Mary's begins. The upper part of the tower is built, nave rebuilt, north aisle, chapel and porch, all added to the church
1322 - A priest held for a 200 ransom in Hucknall
1329 - 80 acres of Hucknall waste land granted to William de Cossall
1330 - Deed of gift from Robert Torkard to William Torkard
1331 - Ulgar Crumwell donates his interest in Hucknall to Beauvale Priory
1331 - Ralph de Crumwell receives from Alexander of Gonalston a water mill which stands on the site of the present Central Methodist Church
1331 - John de Crumbewell gives land at Linby to Newstead Priory
1333 - John le Porter of Hucknall Torkard enfeoffs Roger and Joan, his wife, with 3 acres of arable land lying in the fields of Hucknall
1334 - William de Cossall granted Bulwell Wood Hall Estate to Newstead Priory
1343 - Charter signed to found the monastery at Beauvale Priory
1344 - William de Cossall gives 80 acres of land to Newstead Priory
1369/70 - Charters granting land in Hucknall Torkard to Beauvale Priory
1400 - John Clerc of Hukenal Torcard became benefactor to the priory of Bolton-on-Dearne
1407 - John de Clifton releases in perpetuity; and pardens Walter, son of Sir Edmund Wylughby of Hucknall Torkard concerning service relating to the Manor of Hucknall Torkard
1451 - John Strelley of Linby obstructs a highway. Inhabitants of Hucknall & Papplewick complain
1470 - The north aisle of St. Mary's is rebuilt
1540 - All Newstead Priory lands sold to Sir John Byron
1545 - Romish priest resigns the living
1548 - First Bulwell Wood Hall built in Hucknall parish
1550 - The protestant priest deprived by Queen Mary
1571 - Byron charity established
1603 - Official return shows no more than 317 villagers including 106 children
1615 - Broomhill land and Bulwell Forge leased to Sir John Byron
1615 - King James 1 grants by letters patent Newstead Priory land and Hucknall Manor to Sir John Byron
1630 - Sir John Byron replaces original hall with a new Bulwell Wood Hall
1639 - This is the date on the tenor bell in St. Mary's tower
1647 - Subsidy Rolls reveal Hucknall to be smaller than other local places
1650 - The puritan vicar was reportedly a drunkard and common swearer
1652 - Sir Richard Byron becomes the second Lord Byron
1654 - Ordered that Hucknall Torkard, Linby, Newstead & Papplewick be consolidated as one parish. Lord Byron opposes and it becomes inoperative
1662 - The parson who succeeds the drunken vicar is ejected and replaced
1674 - Bulwell Wood Hall has 14 hearths in Hearth Tax Returns
1676 - Clergyman of the Established Church reports that he has 167 adult parishioners
1687 - Earliest documentary evidence of textile industry in Hucknall
1687 - First documentary evidence of open fields in Hucknall
1690 - Settlement of the manor of Hucknall Torkard for the provision of portions for the children of 3rd Baron Byron. Second party Sir William Stanhope of Shelford and William Waplington of Papplewick, gent
1690 - Lease and release of mortgaged land in Hucknall Torkard belonging to John Butler, to Elizabeth Linley, widow of Nottingham
1691 - Agreement of 3rd Baron Byron's mortgage to Sir William Stanhope of the manor of Linby
1691 - Mortgage of Bulwell Park by William 3rd Baron Byron and his son to Sir William Stanhope
1692 - Lease and release of the manor of Hucknall Torkard for the life of William 3rd Baron Byron as part of a mortgage
1696 - Written list of Hucknall Torkard inhabitants
1698 - Mortgage of land belonging to Lionel Pogson, yeoman of Hucknall Torkard
1698 - Settlement of a house in Hucknall Torkard to William Linley and heirs
1705 - [Approximately] Broomhill House built
1713 - Lease and release of house and land in Hucknall Torkard from Lionel and Hannah Pogson to John Barber
1718 - Certificate relating to Church of England church buildings, furnishings and supplies in Hucknall Torquet
1725 - (1696 - 1725) Deeds to a house and land in Hucknall Torkard, originally property of Lionel Pogson, sold to John Barber, then to Willian 4th Baron Byron
1725 - Lease of house and land, belonging to Isabell Linley in Hucknall Torkard, to John Brough
1740 - Gallery erected at the west end of the church to house choristers and musicians
1740 - The roof of the nave of St. Mary's is leaded in place of the stone tiles
1743 - Thomas Herring Archbishop of York issues questions to be answered in Hucknall
1749 - This is the date of the bass bell in St. Mary's tower
1756 - Baptist meeting house registered. First mention of Hucknall Baptists
1758 - Six rooms of Bulwell Wood Hall destroyed by fire
1759 - Hucknall Enclosure Award submitted
1761 - Hucknall Enclosure Award granted
1764 - Archbishop of York's visit to Nottinghamshire. First mention of Hucknall Methodists
1768 - Conveyance of farms at Hucknall and Newstead to Edward Cartwright for the life of William 5th Baron Byron
1769 - Act for enclosing open fields and commons
1770 - Friendly Society begins, later to become Hucknall Mill Sick Club
1771 - Hucknall Inclosure Award
1774 - 'Wicked' Lord Byron sells his land and holdings to the Duke of Devonshire
1778 - Robinsons begin cotton spinning on the river Leen
1780 - Archbishop of York visits Hucknall
1782 - Robinsons construct Top Mill
1783 - Robinsons take the lease of Forge Mill
1785 - First steam engine used in textile industry put to use in Papplewick Cotton Mill
1788 - Education begins. George Green to be paid for his management of the Sunday School
1788 - Gorge Gordon Noel Byron born in London
1790 - Robinsons construct a new mill on Grange site
1795 - A windmill is erected at Broomhill
1797 - Hucknall Methodists take Methodist New Connexion denomination
1798 - List of Hucknall residents making voluntary contributions for the prosecution of war
1799 - Hucknall listed on Nottingham New Connexion Circuit Plan
1800 - Hucknall Vicarage unfit for residence
1801 - Population 1,497
1806 - Baptist meetings begin on Beardall Street
1808 - Methodist Sunday School begins on Annesley Road
1808 - Boatswain Lord Byron s dog died
1810 - Visit to Hucknall by John Harrison - Primitive Methodist pioneer
1811 - Luddite riots – prevalent squalor commented on by visitors
1812 - Luddites destroy nine lace warp machines at Linby belonging to Mr Shipley
1812 - George Green and Ben Hancock in court for breaking frames during Luddite disturbances
1812 - Parliament gives 200 for augmentation of Hucknall Church vicarage
1812 - Byron first offers Newstead for sale but buyer unable to complete purchase
1814 - Byron estates transferred to Duke of Portland
1815 - Ben Caunt, prizefighter, Champion of England born
1815 - Date stone on former Methodist Chapel (was Romans on Annesley Road but now demolished)
1815 - Victory at Waterloo celebrated by roasting ox and sheep on The Green
1815 - Ada Byron (Lovelace) born (Enchantress of Numbers)
1816 - Visit to Hucknall by Sarah Kirkland - Primitive Methodist evangelist
1816 - Primitive Methodist Society begins
1816 - Frederick Robinson gives evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on The State of Children employed in Manufactories
1817 - Zachariah Green born
1817 - List of Hucknall residents petitioning the Prince Regent
1818 - Lord Byron (Poet) sold Newstead to Col. Wildman
1818 - Dan Diggle, apprenticed to Mr. Rhodes, stockinger of Hucknall, hanged for frame breaking
1818 - Baptist services held in Red Lion Inn
1818 - Newstead bought by Colonel Wildman
1819 - Lancelot Rolleston sells his land holdings in Hucknall
1820 - Robinsons leave cotton spinning
1821 - Population 2,028
1822 - The Honourable Mrs. Byron (poets mother) dies - buried in Parish Church
1824 - Windmill moved from Broomhill to Sandy Lane
1824 - Funeral of Lord Byron
1824 - Frederick Ward invited to come to Hucknall to establish a full-time school
1825 - Sophia Hyatt (mysterious White Lady) buried at Hucknall
1826 - School built
1827 - Leaders Minute Book. First written evidence from Methodist Chapel
1828 - First Co-operative Society founded on West Street
1828 - Annesley Road Methodist Chapel enlarged
1828 - A Co-op Society set up in Balls Yard, West Street
1829 - First Co-op trading association set up in Half Moon Yard
1830 - Robinson s Leen Mills cotton-spinning business sold
1831 - Hucknall Population 2,200
1833 - First list of Methodist members - 166 names
1833 - (1747 - 1833) Deeds, settlements and documents regarding exchange of land between William Spencer 6th Duke of Devonshire and William H. Cavendish Bentinck 4th Duke of Portland
1835 - First Baptist Chapel built
1836 - Poor rate produced 629.19s.0d
1838 - Queen Victoria's Coronation Festivities took place
1838 - 394 Houses in Hucknall
1839 - Electors on the register numbered 79 males
1840 - Penny post arrives in Hucknall
1840 - Glove-making introduced
1840 - (approx.) Old brass band formed
1840 - [circa] Master Hosiers House on Albert Street
1841 - Ben Caunt beats Nick Ward to win Championship
1842 - Ben Caunt marries Martha Butler at Hucknall
1844 - Census of stocking frames (301 shops & 801 frames)
1844 - Common land set out as gardens
1845 - Ben Caunt loses Championship to Bendigo
1845 - First railway through Hucknall proposed
1846 - Wesleyan Chapel built on Chapel Street
1848 - Midland Railway completed
1848 - First railway station in Hucknall opened
1849 - Visit by William Booth, then a methodist preacher, to address navvies constructing a railway
1850 - The Church of Latterday Saints on Whyburn Street opens in Hucknall (possibly earlier)
1851 - Population 2,470 - Houses 520
1851 - New street to be called Byron Street laid out
1852 - Lady Lovelace buried in St. Mary s Church, Hucknall
1852 - Fall (hand knitted veil for babies from Shetland) brought to Hucknall
1853 - Fund raising campaign for National School classrooms
1854 - National School opened
1854 - First harmonium brought to Hucknall by cart to Robert Widdowson's house
1854 - Private Wightman, a Hucknall soldier, survives the Charge of the Light Brigade in Crimea
1855 - Woollatt s - first mention in a directory of falls
1855 - Leasehold of Leen Mills reverts to Montagu family
1856 - Elizabeth Smith obtains post for Queen Victoria at Osbourne IOW
1858 - Shetland hosiery trade founded
1858 - Methodist Chapel purchases an organ - the first in Hucknall
1859 - Primitive Methodist Chapel built on Watnall Road - later sold to Church of Christ
1859 - New vicarage built
1859 - Colonel Wildman of Newstead dies
1860 - Newstead auctioned and eventually bought by Mr. William Frederick Webb
1861 - Ben Caunt dies - Bendigo is a coffin bearer
1861 - Churchyard extended
1861 - Population 2,836 - Houses 661
1861 - First sods of earth lifted marking Hucknall No.1 (Top Pit)
1862 - Coal reached at No. 1 Colliery
1862 - First fatality at Hucknall No.1 Colliery
1863 - Hucknall National School first Log Book begins
1864 - Coal drawing commences
1864 - Hucknall Co-operative Society registered
1864 - Glove-making ceased
1864 - First mention in a directory of shawl industry
1864 - Rhodes - first listing making shawls
1864 - Saxtons - first listing making shawls
1864 - Hardys - first listing making shawls
1864 - Raynors - first listing making shawls
1865 - Annesley Colliery began sinking 2 shafts
1865 - Men's Reading Room opened
1865 - Land purchased in Baker Street for a Methodist Chapel
1865 - Co-operative Society moves from back kitchen store on Gilbert Street to Watnall Road premises
1866 - Sinking commences at Hucknall No. 2 (Bottom Pit)
1866 - Gas introduced - first light in Mr. P. Howis s shop
1866 - Matthews (a writer) finds the little church sadly out of repair
1867 - Hucknall Torkard Local Board elected
1867 - Congregational Mission founded
1867 - Serious fire underground at No 1 Colliery
1868 - Temperence Society founded
1868 - Congregational Iron Chapel built on Portland Road at a cost of 360
1868 - Shop rented on Portland Road, Butler's Hill, as a Co-operative Society branch
1869 - Last servants hiring on The Green
1869 - Co-op Society established in Balls Yard wound up
1869 - Linby upper cross restored
1870 - Bestwood Colliery began Sinking operations
1870 - The Old Coach & Six public house on High Street - contents auctioned and building demolished
1870 - National School enlarged
1870 - S Dutton Walker finds 35 bodies in shallow graves
1871 - Population 4,257 - Houses 895
1871 - School Board established
1871 - Local artist Elias Lacey born in Awsworth
1872 - St. Mary Magdalene Parish Church restored cost 3,200
1872 - Trinity Methodist Chapel built cost 2,500
1872 - Beardall Schools built
1873 - New Watnall Colliery began sinking 3 shafts
1873 - Linby Colliery began sinking operations in November
1873 - Beardall Schools opened in January
1873 - Trinity Methodist Church opens for worship
1873 - First meeting for Bethesda Mission on Butler's Hill
1873 - Local Board to buy land for offices on Watnall Road
1873 - First colliery houses built
1873 - Hucknall Parish Magazine brought out by J H Beardsmore
1874 - Newstead Colliery began sinking 2 shafts
1874 - Gas street lamps introduced
1874 - Pews at St. Mary's Parish Church to be free and unappropriated
1874 - Advertisement in Nottingham Journal for tenders to build Public Hall
1875 - Trinity Methodist Church licenced for marriages
1875 - Public Hall built at a cost of 2,200 - architect Mr. F. Gration
1875 - Butlers Hill/Cavendish Street Primitive Methodist Chapel built
1875 - Linby Colliery Sunk
1875 - Weekly market established on Church Square
1875 - Mechanics Institute proposed
1875 - Parish Church organ built at a cost of 315
1876 - Baptist Chapel on Watnall Road built cost 4,400
1876 - Foundation stone laid for St. John's Church
1876 - Bethesda Chapel on Bestwood Road opened
1876 - Church of Christ begins meetings
1876 - Co-operative Society branch store opens on George Street
1877 - Hucknall Manufacturing - first mention in a directory making shawls
1877 - Butler's Hill School opens
1877 - St. John the Evangelist Church, Butler's Hill, built cost 1,300
1877 - United Methodist Free Church on Peveril St. opens
1877 - Rev. Curtis Jackson dies
1878 - Hicks Memorial Schools built cost 500
1878 - Roman Catholic Mission founded on Whyburn Street
1879 - Bucks - first mentioned in a directory making shawls
1879 - Spring Street School opens
1879 - Congregational Chapel built on Portland Road cost 1,400
1879 - Salvation Army introduced
1880 - Visit to Bestwood Colliery by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII)
1880 - Wesley Chapel built on Watnall Road cost 1,500
1880 - Cigar making commences
1880 - First Catholic School starts in the bandroom on Whyburn Street
1880 - General William Booth of the Salvation Army in Hucknall and preaches at Trinity Chapel
1880 - The Gospel Mission founded
1881 - Underground fire at Watnall Colliery
1881 - Population 10,023 - Houses 2000
1881 - Waterworks opened
1881 - Great Northern Leen Valley Railway line constructed
1881 - Catholic Mission founded
1881 - Royal Oak for sale by auction
1881 - Portand Arms for sale
1881 - Royal Oak Inn sold for 2,300
1881 - Chequers Inn sold for 4.435
1881 - First mention in Directories of Dexters Cigar Factory
1882 - Gospel Mission buys Wesleyan Chapel, Chapel Street (later becoming the Wesleyan Reform Church)
1883 - Land for sale on new street called Truman Street
1884 - Raynor s hosiery factory built on Byron Street
1884 - Raynor's factory on Byron Street first listed as making socks
1884 - Rhodes firm begins manufacturing Orenburg shawls
1884 - First Burial Board elected
1884 - Name of parish church changed from St. James to St. Mary Magdalene
1884 - Coffee Tavern built cost 1,300
1884 - Salvation Army buys Baptist Chapel on Gilbert Street
1884 - Duke of Portland gives money for church clock
1885 - Mr. J.E. Ellis elected M.P. 1885 - The Postmaster, Mr. Rowe, asks the Local Board if the houses can be numbered
1885 - Fire Brigade commences
1885 - Hucknall is in Rushcliffe Constituency when voting for Member of Parliament
1885 - Eric Coates, musician & composer, born
1886 - Catholic Church School & Presbytery given by Mr. & Mrs. Hanlon cost 2,700
1886 - Telephone poles erected
1886 - Eric Coates born
1886 - First sale of Duke of Portland's land
1886 - Market area extended by demolishing existing buildings
1886 - Proposed new street clled Bolsover Street
1887 - Free Library built
1887 - Catholic Church on Carlingford Road opened
1887 - P.S.A. (Pleasant Sunday Afternoon) Association founded
1887 - Rueben Bramley listed as first photographer
1887 - Cemetery opened
1888 - Parish Church enlarged cost 4,500
1888 - Butler's Hill Playground opened
1888 - Debt for enlargement of St. Mary s Church cleared
1888 - Strike at Raynor s factory, Byron Street
1889 - Elizabeth Smith retires from Osbourne
1889 - First County Council elections
1890 - Hucknall Girl's Society formed
1890 - Conveyance of land on Beardall Street, Hucknall Torkard, to William H. Coates, Eric Coates' father
1891 - Population 13,094 - Houses 2513
1891 - Proposed new street called The Connery
1892 - St. Peter s Church built on Watnall Road cost 650
1892 - St. John s Parsonage built cost 600
1892 - Hazel Grove Congregational Mission begins
1892 - Post Office at Butler's Hill opened
1892 - Pillar box system established
1892 - Tin Bridge erected over Midland & Great Northern railway lines at Butler's Hill
1892/93 - Station Hotel built
1893 - Riot at Watnall Colliery as men continued working during strike
1893 - Coal miners' strike
1894 - Bamkins on Whyburn Street first listed as making socks
1894 - Nursing Association formed
1894 - Hazel Grove Congregational Church built at a cost of 600
1894 - Hucknall Urban District Council formed
1895 - St. John s Church extended. Memorial stone laid by Miss Jackson
1895 - Primitive Methodist Chapel on Watnall Road built
1895 - Church of Christ buys former Primitive Methodist Chapel on Watnall Road
1895 - Isolation Hospital at Hucknall? - Question to H.U.D.C.
1896 - Serious fire at Moss & Plumbs Timber Mills
1896 - Typhoid epidemic - 130 people infected - 22 die
1897 - Nurses Home stone-laying ceremony and build
1897 - Telephones installed
1897 - Zachariah Green dies
1898 - Bethesda Chapel new school opens cost 450
1898 - Land purchased at rear of Trinity Methodist Chapel to build new Sunday Schools
1898 - Central Co-operative Stores opens near Market Place with Great Co-operative demonstration
1898 - Nurses Home opened
1898 - Hucknall Silver Band come 2nd in great bands contest
1899 - Great Central Railway station opens
1899 - Zachariah Green fountain unveiled on Market Place cost nearly 400
1900 - 18th Nottingham (Hucknall) Company Boys Brigade begins
1900 - Plans passed for Theatre Royal on Annesley Road
1900 - Technical School donations given by Mr. J.E.Ellis & Mr. H.B.Paget
1900 - School Board decides to build offices
1901 - Population 15,250 - Houses 3,126
1901 - Theatre Royal opens on Annesley Road
1901 - Linby & Papplewick Methodist Chapel - memorial stone laying
1901 - Technical School opens off Duke Street
1901 - School Board Offices opens on Duke Street
1902 - Co-operative branch on corner of High Street and Station Road opens
1903 - Hucknall Co-operative Society has new premises built on Market Place
1903 - Trinity Chapel Sunday Schools built - projected cost 2,871 - replacing old school on Annesley Road
1903 - Byron s statue erected on Co-operative Society buildings
1903 - YMCA Institute opened on High Street
1903 - Technical School doubles as a Pupil Teacher Centre in daytime
1903 - Smallpox in Hucknall - thirteen cases notified
1904 - Fifty four cases of smallpox in the area
1904 - Salvation Army - first wedding celebrated
1904 - Vicar John Edward Phillips dies
1904 - Thomas Gerrard Barker comes to Hucknall as curate of St. Peter's Church on Watnall Road
1904 - Open-air swimming baths on Baths Lane opened
1904 - Cattle market opened on Market Place
1904 - New laundry on Watnall Road. After laundry closes building becomes Lads Club
1905 - Serious smallpox epidemic
1905 - Primitive Methodist Chapel on Watnall Road installs an organ
1905 - Cattle Market experiment deemed a failure
1905 - Smallpox still a major threat
1905 - King Edward VII visits Newstead Abbey
1906 - Church Hall completed
1906 - Canon Godber died
1906 - Wesleyan Reform Chapel stone laying ceremony - chapel to cost 2,560
1906 - Miss Emily Ada Jackson of Broomhill House marries Edwin Henry Story
1906 - Conveyance of building land near Wood Lane to Moss & Plumb, timber merchants and builders
1907 - Thomas Gerrard Barker becomes vicar of St. Mary Magdalene
1907 - Protests regarding publication of a postcard claiming Byron is buried at Harrow
1907 - William James Calladine elected member of Notts. County Council
1907 - Godber Memorial Hall officially opened
1907 - Sale of Canon Godber's estate
1907 - St. Peter's Church reopened after refurbishment
1907 - Plough and Harrow for sale
1908 - Co-operative Society branch on Charles Street opens
1908 - Formation of Duke Street
1908 - A great deluge presents flooding problems again
1908 - New coal-cutting equipment installed at Hucknall No.2 Colliery
1908 - Indoor swimming baths to be built in Wigwam area, thanks to J.E. Ellis
1909 - Indoor swimming baths Opened on Baths Lane
1909 - Visit of General Booth to Hucknall
1909 - Schools closed in June - measles epidemic
1909 - History of Hucknall Torkard by Beardsmore published
1909 - Skating Rink to be built
1909 - Beardall Street School started upper standard
1909 - Former chapel on Chapel St. bought for cinematograph
1909 - Palestine in Hucknall Torkard exhibition
1909 - Confectioner Joseph Burrows sells 'Hucknall Rock' as sold at the seaside
1909 - Chapel Street - old chapel opens and called Picturedrome
1910 - Taylor's factory on King Edward Street first listed as making underwear - later to become known as Ewe Hosiery and Jaeger factory
1910 - Plans passed for Salvation Army Hall on High Street
1910 - Byron roller skating rink opened on Vine Terrace
1910 - [to 1913] NUWSS (women s suffrage) had a shop on High Street
1910 - Four miners killed at No. 2 Colliery
1910 - J.E. Ellis returned as M.P. for Rushcliffe constituency which includes Hucknall
1910 - After being manager for twelve years, Mr C.E. Stallard buys boot and shoe business close to market place
1911 - Conveyance of building land on King Edward Street to Stephen & Richard Taylor, hosiery manufacturers
1911 - Population 15,870
1911 - Hucknall Collieries taken over by Sherwood Colliery Co. Ltd.
1911 - Salvation Army Hall opened on High Street
1911 - Five new classrooms for National School
1911 - Proposed new street called King Edward Street
1911 - New sewage works constructed
1912 - Morgan Kingston sings at Byron Rink
1912 - Byron Rink closed
1913 - Vedonis factory built on Watnall Road/Farleys Lane - listed as making underwear
1913 - Pilot Palace opened on Annesley Road
1914 - Temporary Red Cross Hospital at The Church Hall
1914 - King George V and Queen Mary visit Hucknall
1914 - Land which would become Titchfield Park given by The Duke of Portland
1914 - Pilot Palace re-opens as Scala Picture House
1914 - Papplewick Hall attcked by suffragettes
1915 - Public Hall given to town
1915 - Film & records synchronised for 'talkies' event at Co-op Hall
1915 - Picturedrome on Chapel Street for sale or to let
1915 - Hucknall branch of Citizen Army begins
1915 - Death of Elizabeth Smith, housekeeper for Queen Victoria at Osbourne
1915 - Samuel Green dies - son of Zachariah and himself a healer
1915 - Strike at cigar factory
1916 - Hucknall Torkard drops the suffix and becomes just Hucknall
1916 - Robert Edward Ryder awarded VC died Hucknall 1979
1916 - Zeppelins seen over Hucknall
1916 - Death of Miss Jackson, a local benefactor
1916 - Papplewick Grange bought by Sir Julian Cahn
1916 - Death of Major Webb in British East Africa, owner of Newstead Abbey
1917 - Cigar workers on strike
1918 - Engine house built for Raynor's factory on Byron Street
1918 - American service personnel at Hucknall Aerodrome
1918 - Hucknall in Broxtowe Constituency when voting for Member of Parliament
1919 - Addison s Act enables HUDC to build new houses
1919 - Plans drawn to build Co-op bakery on West Street
1919 - Nottingham try to incorporate Hucknall into the city
1919 - Aerodrome to be Landing Station for London, Manchester & Belfast route
1919 - Peace Parade of servicemen from Market Place to Broomhill
1919 - Green Dragon Inn for sale by auction
1919 - Purchase of allotments from Duke of Portland
1919 - Peace Day celebrated by Hucknall children on Titchfield Park
1920 - Plans passed for Bamkin's factory and house on Portland Road
1920 - Amoid factory built
1920 - Co-operative Society bakery opens on West Street
1920 - Papplewick Hall for sale
1920 - Mansfield Engineering take over hangers at aerodrome
1920 - Wesleyan Chapel re-opened after renovation
1920 - Plan to locate Cenotaph on Market Place
1920 - HUDC offering Housing Bonds for loans to build houses
1920 - Baptist Church. Memorial Tablet to their fallen in Great War
1920 - Wesleyan Chapel re-opened after renovation
1920 - Parish Church Organ re-opening service
1920 - Suggested site on Market Place for towns memorial to the fallen in the Great War
1920 - HUDC requesting loans enabling them to build council houses
1920 - Trinity Church. Plaque unveiled at Trinity Church to their fallen in Great War
1920 - Baptist Church. Commemorative windows to those who returned from Great War
1920 - St. John s Memorial Window dedicated to fallen in Great War
1920 - Open Day for locals to inspect the Co-op New Machine Bakery on West Street
1920 - Disastrous fire at Bodill & Sons builders. Stock for Council House building work destroyed
1920 - Bamkins plan for hosiery factory and house on Portland Road
1920 - New factory for Raynor & Sons on Building Street
1921 - Population 16,834
1921 - Formation of Hucknall Philharmonic Society
1921 - Council begins to lay out design of Titchfield Park
1921 - Hucknall British Legion founded
1921 - Extension of waterworks
1922 - Titchfield Park opened
1922 - War Memorial on Titchfield Park commemorated
1923 - Prince of Wales visits Hucknall
1923 - Bodill s to build workshop and sheds on Sherwood Street
1923 - Functions of Burial Board taken over by council
1923 - Conveyance of land to Hucknall District Council for extension of Titchfield Park
1924 - H. Johns to build Wighay petrol filling station
1924 - Tea Pavilion on Titchfield Park designed by T.C. Howitt
1924 - Alms Houses to be built on Church Drive
1924 - Spiritualist Society plan for new church on Derbyshire Lane
1924 - Celebrations of centenary of Byron s funeral held
1924 Westville, Hucknall housing extensions to the west
1924 - First Wireless Station in Notts. erected in Hucknall
1925 - Extension of Titchfield Park by Miners' Welfare Fund
1925 - Spiritualist Church opened
1925 - Wass and Coupe on Wigwam Lane listed as making socks
1925 - Factory to be built on Park Drive for Turner
1925 - Tenders requested for electric lighting of Public Hall, Library and Council Offices
1926 - Official founding of Hucknall Rotary Club
1926 - Duke of York (later King George VI) visits alms houses on Park Drive
1926 - Hucknall Rotary Club started
1927 - Great Air Pageant at aerodrome including air race for King's Cup
1927 - Dance Hall to be built on Parker Street
1927 - Cripples Clinic built for Cripples Guild on Derbyshire Lane (Now Orthopaedic Clinic)
1927 - Powers & duties of Overseers of the Poor transferred to U.D.C.
1928 - Cripples Clinic (later renamed Orthopaedic Clinic) opens
1928 - Plans passed for Empire Cinema
1928 - Highfields factory on Whyburn Street listed as making outerwear - later to move to Byron Street and become Courtaulds
1928 - Millott s Yard demolished
1929 - Zachariah Green Monument moved from Market Place to Titchfield Park
1929 - Empire Picture House on Vine Terrace converted to 'Talkies'
1929 - Plans passed to rebuild Green Dragon
1929 - Plans passed to rebuild Taylor's factory after a fire
1929 - 6,000 needed for more classrooms for National School
1929 - James Saxton born Hucknall becomes president of Primitive Methodist Connexion. Dies during his year of office
1929 - New building planned for National School
1929 - Shipstone & Son rebuild Green Dragon
1930 - Sandy Lane windmill is demolished
1930 - Scala closed to install sound - re-opens in October
1930 - Reynold's factory on Papplewick Lane first listed as making underwear - later to move to Watnall Road making goods for the Montfort label
1930 - Plans passed for Storth Meadow Estate council houses
1930 - Plans passed for Co-operative Society on site of Torkard buildings
1930 - Organ installed at Trinity Methodist Church costing 1,600
1930 - Foot & mouth epidemic
1930 - New School buildings off Duke Street
1930 - Shop for Hucknall Co-op to be built near Central Station
1931 - Population 17,338
1932 - Anglo Plauen on the aerodrome site makes Schiffli Lace
1932 - Papplewick Grange, home of Sir Julien Cahn, demolished
1932 - Butler's Hill Station closed completely
1932 - Plans for Brookside Estate for H.U.D.C.
1932 - Papplewick Grange owned by Sir Julian Cahn up for auction
1933 - First Slum Clearance commences
1933 - Long Hill Rise planned
1933 - Plans for Palmer Avenue bungalows by H.U.D.C.
1933 - New hosiery factory for Reynolds on Watnall Road
1934 - Reynold's factory opened
1934 - First Hucknall week-long Carnival begins
1934 - Hucknall Harlequins Junior Prize Band formed
1934 - Byron Revellers Carnival Band formed
1934 - Hucknall Lavinracs Carnival Band formed
1934 - Hucknall Titchfield Nomads Jazz Band formed
1934 - Silver Prize Band Jubilee
1934 - Rolls Royce arrives at Aerodrome
1934 - Edwin Henry Story of Broomhill House dies
1935 - John Henry Beardsmore dies, aged 84 - author of History of Hucknall Torkard (published 1909)
1935 - Extension of Hucknall boundaries to include parts of Linby & Papplewick
1935 - Hucknall Sunray Hussars Carnival Band formed
1935 - Richard Richmond to build hosiery factory on Caddaw Avenue
1935 - Plans for Washdyke Lane Estate by H.U.D.C.
1935 - Layout of Bacon Springs Estate by Whittle
1935 - Rolls Royce plan two testing houses at aerodrome
1935 - Swimming pool planned at Papplewick Lido
1935 - Dr Coates, father of Eric, dies at Basingstoke
1936 - Hucknall Pearlies Carnival Band formed
1936 - Child Welfare Clinic opens on Watnall Road
1936 - Byron Cinema opens
1936 - North Hill Estate being erected
1936 - Oakenhall Estate being erected
1936 - Maternity and Child Welfare Clinic on Watnall Road
1936 - Plans laid out for Thoresby Estate
1936 - Canon Michael O Reilly dies. Priest of Roman Catholic Church from 1905
1937 - Wighay Nook, an old farmhouse on Annesley Road, demolished
1937 - Bulwell Wood Hall destroyed by fire
1937 - Demise of Hucknall Silver Band
1937 - George Cooper begins Beauvale Estate (this continues)
1937 - New housing estate to be built off Henry Street
1937 - Caddaw Avenue bungalows to be built for H.U.D.C.
1937 - Pit Head Baths planned for No.1 Colliery
1937 - Hucknall Silver Band disbanded
1938 - Byron's Rest Inn demolished to widen High Street
1938 - Jones' Hosiery on Byron Street first listed making socks - later moves to Occupation Road and eventually to Beneworth Close now making leisure wear
1938 - Taylor's Buildings on Portland Road demolished
1938 - Old Manor House on High Street demolished
1938 - On Beauvale Estate Cooper s plan bomb proof shelter
1938 - Trent bus garage opens on Portland Road
1938 - New factory built on Caddaw Avenue for Richette
1938 - Old Manor House on High Street being demolished
1938 - Park Lake not to be filled in
1938 - Fish & Chip restaurant opens on Springfield Road, Beauvale Estate
1938 - Richette factory opens
1938 - Cannon Barber unearths foundations of earlier church
1938 - Trent bus garage opened on Portland Road
1939 - Hucknall No. 1 (Top Pit) pit head baths opens
1939 - Ten miners in a pit cage crash. One killed
1939 - Development of Ruffs Farm Estate by H.U.D.C.
1939 - Hucknall Excelsior Band wound up
1939 - An air raid shelter is planned for Richard Richmond factory
1940 - Aeroplane crashes into house on Laughton Crescent. Six people die.
1940 - Williams' factory on Caddaw Avenue making service uniforms - bombed out of London - moves back south after the War
1940 - Co-operative Dairy opens on Park Drive
1940 - Diamond Jubilee of Mussons shop
1940 - Hucknall launches Spitfire Fund
1940 - John Munks celebrates 60 years as organist
1941 - Messerschmitt on Market Place
1941 - Plans for wartime day nursery on Sandy Lane
1941 - Emergency Information Centre at library in case of enemy air action
1941 - Air Training Corps to be founded in Hucknall
1942 - First marriage at Church of Christ on Watnall Road
1944 - Mrs Emily Ada Story of Broomhill House dies
1944 - New Fire Station opens
1945 - Forces Canteen at Reynolds Factory closed
1945 - Broomhill House auctioned
1945 - Hut bought to use as a Community Centre set up on Rockwood Crescent, Beauvale Estate
1946 - Worries that Castle Mill at Linby would be demolished
1946 - Hucknall Co-operative Orchestra formed
1946 - Hucknall Clinic purchased from Sir J. Cahn s executors
1946 - Hucknall British Legion moves into The Elms on Beardall Street
1946 - Mr. G. A. Ward retires as registrar after 50 years
1946 - Annie Holgate, after whom some local schools are named, dies
1946 - First prefabs completed
1947 - Mary Cecilia Jackson of Broomhill House dies
1947 - Both Hucknall Collieries vested in NCB East Midland Division
1947 - Portland Farm demolished
1947 - First prefabs arrive in Hucknall
1947 - Hucknall Collieries Welfare Scheme inaugurated
1947 - Site of former Papplewick Grange, later a Lido, bought by the Preston family
1948 - Wandess on High Street listed as making hosiery
1948 - Corman's on Portland Road listed as making trousers and jackets - later moves to Bolsover Street
1948 - Tablet unveiled by minister of Wesleyan Reform to five servicemen who lost their lives in WWII
1949 - Youth Employment Bureau established
1949 - New canteen at Highfield Hosiery Factory on Byron Street
1949 - A new gate for Titchfield Park. Original metal gate taken down in wartime
1950 - Hollins: Viyella on Caddaw Avenue listed as making shirts
1950 - Annie Holgate Infant School opens
1950 - Linby Colliery F.C. compete against Gillingham first round of F.A. Challenge Cup
1950 - Broomhill House on fire owner Mr. V.N. Radford
1950 - Watnall Colliery closed
1951 - Population 23,290
1951 - Cigar factory closed
1951 - West Street Gospel Hall built
1951 - Cavendish St. Methodist re-opens after 3 yrs restoration
1951 - Beauvale Community Centre completed
1951 - Protests at state of footpath from Beauvale Estate to Annie Holgate School
1951 - Community Centre built on field behind houses on Beauvale Crescent
1952 - Annie Holgate Junior School opens
1952 - Co-operative Society purchases mobile grocery shop for out-of-town estates
1952 - Hucknall Midland Station closed to goods traffic but renamed Hucknall Byron
1952 - Spendour Ltd. of Caddaw Avenue wound up
1953 - Jubilee of Sunday School building at Trinity
1953 - Flying Bedstead experimental rig begins testing - later to become Harrier jump jet
1953 - Jubilee of Hucknall Dispatch
1954 - Co-operative Society branch on Beauvale Estate opens
1954 - Co-operative Society branch on Ruffs Estate opens
1954 - Archbishop of York (Dr Cyril Garbett) visits Hucknall
1954 - Cigar factory auctioned - bought by Landmaster
1955 - Annie Holgate Secondary School building unfinished but opens for pupils
1955 - Stallards building demolished allowing South Street corner to be improved
1955 - Film of Flying Bedstead in local cinema
1955 - Hucknall in Nottingham North Constituency when voting for Member of Parliament
1955 - Captain Ronald Shepherd dies - first man to pilot the Flying Bedstead (VTO machine)
1955 - Airfield runways being extended
1956 - St. Mary's Church organ restored at a cost of 3,500
1956 - Plans for Welbeck Estate given approval
1956 - Plan to build C. of. E. church on Ruffs Estate
1956 - Viyella factory opens new canteen
1957 - Scala closes
1957 - Flying Bedstead crashes - pilot Larson killed
1957 - Last day at Hucknall R.A.F. station
1957 - Annie Holgate Secondary School officially opened
1957 - Eric Coates dies
1957 - Stallard's Shoe Shop beside Market Place demolished, together with other buildings fronting the Half Moon public house
1957 - Papplewick Methodist Chapel closed
1957 - Work begins at No.2 Colliery on a 3,000,000 scheme to extend life for further 50 years
1958 - Bulwell Hall to be demolished
1958 - Dedication of new bells at St. Mary's
1958 - Anglican church hall being built on Ruffs Estate
1958 - British Legion hall opened
1958 - Mr. Toon Head of Spring Street Boys retires
1958 - New Catholic Church to be built on Watnall Road
1958 - R.A.F. Camp chapel to be re-erected on Seymour Road for Baptists
1959 - Seymour Road Baptist Church opens
1959 - Spring Street Boys & Girls Schools amalgamated
1960 - Catholic Church on Watnall Road opens - built by Bodill's at a cost of 40,000 excluding fittings
1960 - St. Peter's Church closed
1960 - Catholic parish hall opened
1960 - New telephone exchange built on Portland Road
1961 - Population 23,470
1962 - Co-operative Society opens supermarket on High Street
1962 - Cormans new factory on Bolsover Street opens
1962 - Wood Lane Estate being built by Wimpey
1963 - Methodist Churches join. Trinity, Bourne and Wesley become Central Methodist Church
1963 - New National School built on land off Montague Road
1963 - Bethesda & Cavendish Street churches combine to form the new East Side Methodist Church
1964 - Last passenger train for almost 30 years runs through Hucknall
1964 - Licence for a new Inn on Wighay Estate in approx 1 years time
1964 - Surrender of licence for Fox & Hounds on Annesley Road
1964 - Work on a new coal seam at No.2 Colliery called Black Shale
1965 - Hucknall Technical Grammar School opens
1966 - Wundova Stretch on High Street/Station Road makes stretch covers - later moves to Bulwell then to old bakery on West Street making childrenswear and sportswear
1966 - Trials on H.M.S. Bulwark of P1127, the Hawker Kestrel, forerunner of the Harrier
1966 - Hexagonal Church St. Peter & St. Paul opened on Ruffs Drive
1966 - Hucknall Town Station closed by Dr. Beeching
1967 - Catholic School on Walkmill Drive opens
1967 - Bestwood Colliery closed
1968 - Hucknall Zoo opens
1968 - Bestwood Colliery closed
1968 - Byron Cinema doubles as a Bingo Hall
1969 - Hucknall Co-operative Society amalgamates with Nottingham Co-operative Society
1969 - Demolition of No.2 Colliery chimney last vestige of steam working
1969 - Bethesda Methodist Church demolished
1970 - East Side embark on a rebuilding scheme
1970 - Cavendish Street Church (formerly Prims) demolished
1970 - East Side Methodist Church on Bestwood Road opens
1970 - Manor Farm on Station Road demolished
1971 - Population 26,570
1971 - Church of Christ on Watnall Road closes
1971 - Flight testing stopped at airfield
1972 - Vine Manufacturing on Vine Terrace makes babywear
1973 - Church of Christ on Watnall Road demolished
1973 - Eric Horriben s book about Hucknall s history published
1973 - Moss & Plumbs mansion demolished
1973 - Richard Bullock youngest and last Chairman of Hucknall UDC
1974 - Hucknall Urban District Council disbanded
1974 - Hucknall joins with other areas to become part of Ashfield District Council
1974 - Phase 1 of new National Comprehensive School on Annesley Road
1974 - Hucknall in Ashfield Constituency when voting for a Member of Parliament
1975 - Royal British Legion Housing Association building Buzzard Court on Hankin Street
1976 - British Legion's Herbert Buzzard Court opens
1976 - Sherwood Zoo closes
1976 - Beardall Street Secondary, Annie Holgate Secondary & Holgate Grammer Schools amalgamated into Holgate Comprehensive
1979 - Central Methodist Church Centre opens
1979 - Robert Edward Ryder VC died
1980 - Mary Green dies
1981 - John Round becomes head of Holgate Comprehensive
1982 - Phase 2 of new National Comprehensive completed
1982 - Contents of Papplewick Hall sold by Sothebys
1983 - Hucknall in Sherwood Constituency when voting for a Member of Parliament
1984 - Local collieries influenced by National miners strike
1984 - Hucknall Heritage Society inaugurated
1985 - Papplewick Lido closes
1985 - Moorgreen Colliery closed
1985 - Papplewick Lido site sold by the Preston Family
1986 - Hucknall Colliery closes
1988 - Date stone laid for new Methodist church on Baker Street
1989 - New Central Methodist Church built
1990 - Netz Sports on Watnall Road makes team sportswear
1991 - First phase of Hucknall bypass opened
1991 - Bucks shawl making factory closes
1992 - Hucknall Leisure Centre Swimming Pool opened by Duncan Goodhew
1992 - Price and Buckland on Beneworth Close makes leisurewear
1992 - Work begins on Robin Hood line
1992 - UK Waste Management plan to use Watnall Brickyard as landfill site but permission not granted
1992 - Waste not wanted. Local protest group
1992 - Plan for new nursery, infants and junior school on Broomhill Road
1992 - Start of work making golf course on colliery spoil heap, Wigwam Lane
1992 - Hucknall Collieries Welfare Scheme closes
1993 - Hucknall bypass opens
1993 - Robin Hood Railway Line opens
1993 - Congregational Church on Portland Rd. closes - congregation transferred to Hazel Grove
1993 - Hucknall s last prefab. demolished
1994 - Butler's Hill School demolished
1994 - Fine Fare premises on Nottingham Road demolished
1994 - New houses built on land previously belonging to Fine Fare, Nottingham Road
1994 - Refurbished Church Hall to re-open as Community Hall
1994 - Corman's factory closes for manufacturing - production moves to Portugal
1994 - Hucknall Co-operative Society closes on Market Place
1994 - Butler's Hill Infants School opens on a new site - Broomhill Road
1994 - Beardall School top of Duke Street demolished
1994 - Toxic fumes leak from Berridges site on Wigwam Lane
1994 - Annesley Bentinck pit closes
1994 - Vedonis factory closes
1994 - Cricket pavilion on Titchfield Park demolished
1995 - Certa Cito on Bolsover Street makes a variety of bags for schools
1995 - White Rose Nursing Home built on site of Butler's Hill School
1995 - Community Hall on Ogle Street opens - (formerly Church Hall)
1995 - International Clothing Centre on Annesley Rd. opens
1996 - Vedonis factory demolished - Hassall Homes on site
1996 - Hucknall Torkard Times commences
1997 - Methodists celebrate 200 years of history in Hucknall
1997 - Hucknall threatened - thousands of new houses to be built
1997 - Wandess Hosiery / Vine Manufacturing finally closes
1997 - Jaeger Factory closes
1997 - Hollins Viyella factory closes
1998 - New College Nottingham (Hucknall Centre) being built
1998 - Robert Kenny becomes head of Holgate Comprehensive
1999 - Viyella Factory demolished - New houses on site
1999 - New College opens
1999 - Houses being built on former allotments on Linby Road by Wimpey builders
1999 - Robin Bailey, famous local actor, dies
1999 - Houses being built on Beardall St. opposite Henry Street

2000 - Courtaulds Textile factory (Highfields) on Byron Street closes
2000 - Broomhill Court demolished (senior citizens bedsits and social centre). Bungalows built on site.
2000 - Stag Furniture factory to close
2000 - Annesley Colliery closed
2000 - Boys Brigade Centenery
2001 - Houses being built on Stag Furniture site
2001 - Jobs threatened at Rolls Royce
2001 - Houses being built on Highfields Site
2002 - Wundova Stretch closes
2003 - Images found in Public Hall
2003 - Houses being built behind Iceland store on former Bottom Pit No. 2 Colliery site - Persimmon builders
2003 - Tesco superstore opens
2003 - Co-operative Society building on Market Place being renovated and made into flats and retail premises
2003 - Houses to be built on Broomhill Farm and on Broomhill House gardens
2003 - Trams running along tracks beside Robin Hood Railway line. Opening to public put back
2004 - NET Tram line opened to public
2004 - Byron statue put back into niche on old Co-operative Society building on Market Place
2004 - Houses being built at the bottom of Sherwood Street - Wimpey
2004 - Salvation Army's 125 years anniversary
2004 - Butlers Hill Post Office closed
2004 - Coloured asphalt (red) for cycle lanes on Nottingham Road
2004 - Hucknall Heritage Trail with Hucknall Dispatch
2005 - Princess Anne opens new science block at National School
2005 - Land for sale for housing behind Papplewick Lane
2005 - Netz sports garment manufacture closed

2005 - Houses being built on site of No. 2 Colliery, Bottom Pit - David Wilson builders
2005 - Memorial statue to miners by Graham Ibbeson unveiled on Station Road
2005 - Hucknall Town F.C. in final of F.A. Trophy but lost in a penalty shootout
2005 - Safeway (Morrison's) supermarket in town centre closes
2005 - Land cleared on Butler's Hill allotments to build industrial units
2006 - Houses being built on Broomhill Park by Persimmon Builders - Estate named Oakenhall
2006 - Amoid factory demolished - land cleared for houses
2006 - Houses rising on Pinfold
2006 - Science and technology park lined up for Hucknall on Rolls Royce site
2007 - Hucknall Market Place refurbished
2007 - Morris Homes to be built on Broomhill Farm site
2007 - Ben Bailey Homes being erected on Farley's Lane as 'Rosemoor Estate'
2007 - Signs erected detailing building of Morris Homes on Broomhill Farm site
2007 - 'Flight of Fancy' artwork unveiled in front of 'Half Moon Hotel'
2007 - Market Place officially opened
2008 - Hucknall U3A inaugurated
2008 - Former Scala Cinema demolished
2008 - Annesley Road Post Office closed
2008 - Earthquake felt in Hucknall
2008 - Hucknall U3A (University of the Third Age) commenced meetings
2008 - Engine testing finishes at Rolls Royce
2008 - Homes being built on Winifred Street (off Portland Road)
2008 - Book to celebrate centenary of Church Hall published by Lovelace Theatre Group
2008 - Dedication ceremony of plaques (which were set in garden at Central Methodist Church) to commemorate sacrifice of Great War service personnel
2008 - Hucknall & Linby Community Brass Band 1st rehersal in Hucknall
2009 - Hucknall Manufacturing Co. buildings/workshops complex (for shawl trade) demolished

2009 - Renovation and building work at Central Methodist Church to provide two new community rooms
2009 - Jubilee celebrations for Seymour Road Baptist Church
2009 - Watnall Chimneys demolished
2009 - Clay's butchers shop closes after 115 years
2010 - Hucknall Library closed for refit and to go 'self-selection'
2010 - Nurses Home / Belper House demolished
2010 - November/December - many events cancelled to due snow
2010 - Hurdler Andy Turner wins Gold Medal at Commonwealth Games
2011 - This is Hucknall DVD produced
2011 - Newstead Abbey only open Sundays
2011 - Taylder's shop on Baker Street demolished
2011 - Maltshovel public house becomes Bella Mia - an Italian & Greek restaurant
2011 - Inner bypass money released
2011 - Urgent fundraising effort begins to renovate church tower
2011 - Trent bus garage on Portland Road ceased operating
2012 - East Side Methodist Church linked with Central Methodist
2012 - Wesleyan Reform Church closes
2012 - Calverton Colliery railway line to become cycle and walkway
2012 - Hucknall Dispatch Office closed. Newspaper continues with office at Ilkeston
2012 - Byron Business Centre opened. (Formerly Beardall St. Boys School)
2012 - A new Beardall St. Primary School to be built on Wigwam Lane development
2013 - Severe floods in Hucknall on 23rd July
2013 - Lottery grant towards parish church tower
2013 - Flying Bedstead pub closed. Application for Co-op on site
2013 - Dispatch newspaper now part of Mansfield Chad Group
2014 - Work starts to build houses on Broomhill Farm
2014 - Beardall School closed
2014 - Flying Bedstead public house demolished
2014 - Miners killed working at Hucknall & Linby Collieries remembered on stones near the miners statue on Station Road
2015 - Bamkin s Factory to be demolished - formerly Jaeger; originally S. Taylor & Co.
2015 - Masons Arms demolished - Sainsbury s to be built on site
2015 - Land cleared houses to be built on large part of Rolls Royce site
2015 - NCN Hucknall College to close
2015 - Nottingham Heritage Vehicle Charity took over Trent bus garage
2015 - Work commences for pedestrianisation and inner bypass
2015 - Hucknall Library to close for building work and update

2015 - Buildings demolished on Baker Street
2015 - All testing stopped and airfield closed
2016 - Land around Farleys Spring cleared
2016 - Former New College Nottingham building to become Sixth Form College
2016 - Zachariah Green's memorial on Titchfield Park renovated
2016 - Hucknall Inner Bypass opened - to be called Torkard Way
2017 - Seymour Road Baptist Church changes name to West Hucknall Baptist Church
2017 - Pedestrian area of High Street completed
2017 - Building known as Roman's in danger of collapse. Other than St. Mary's, it was originally the earliest church building in Hucknall
2017 - Hope is offered for a conservation zone in Hucknall
2017 - Images found in Public Hall donated to Hucknall Heritage Society
2017 - Hucknall Flight Test Museum with Charitable Trust formed
2018 - Byron Bingo Hall, originally Byron Cinema, up for sale by auction
2018 - New road open from bypass to Rolls Royce
2018 - Cycle Tour of Britain to come through Hucknall again
2018 - Josery Textiles on Beneworth Close closed
2018 - School planned for housing estates on Rolls Royce site
2018 - Hundreds of poppies decorate the Market Place for the centenary of the Great War
2018 - Plans to demolish the old Co-op Bakery building on West Street. Houses to be built on the site
2019 - New owner plans to reopen the Byron as a cinema
2019 - Reynolds former hosiery factory being demolished due to fire
2019 - Conservation area ratified
2019 - More homes to be built on Rolls Royce and Broomhill Farm sites
2019 - Byron former cinema being renovated and new entrance built

2020 - Art work commemorating Hucknall No. 1 Top Pit
2020 - Flying High Academy officially opened on former Rolls Royce site
2020 - Byron due to open March with 4 screens - new name Arc Cinema
2020 - Chequers Hotel on High Street for sale
2020 - Barclays Bank to close leaving just Lloyds in town
2020 - Sandicliffe garage/motors moved leaving large vacant site on Portland Road
2020 - English Heritage list R.A.F. Command Tower for aerodrome
2020 - Top Wighay development begins
2020 - Rolls Royce to cut jobs
2020 - Ben Caunt listed in New York s bare knuckle Hall of Fame
2020 - Plans lodged for Lidl supermarket on Watnall Road
2021 - Serious road works continue to facilitate housing on Top Wighay Farm land
2021 - Work commences in Titchfield Park - re-aligning brook and flood storage
2021 - Building work begins on corner of Annesley Road and bypass
2021 - Police Station on Watnall Road to be demolished - homes to be built on site
2021 - New health centre to be built on Piggins Croft car park
2021 - Public Hall sold - new owner to develop building into flats
2021 - Ashfield D. C. Local Plan - threat of thousands of houses in Whyburn area
2021 - Portland Arms on Annesley Road for sale
2021 - Rolls Royce finalise ending their land holdings in former airfield area
2022 - Hucknall s Heroes, a book by Andy McKinnon, published about Hucknall men who served in the Great War
2022 - Portland Arms to be made into flats
2022 - Yew Tree to be made into flats
2022 - Hucknall Independent Party say Whyburn Farm development is saved
2022 - Cenotaph's 100th Anniversary of unveiling celebrated by Hucknall Heritage Society
2023 - Another swimming pool built located at Hucknall Leisure Centre
2023 - Old Station Road cottage for auction - possibly oldest building in town except Saint Mary's Church
2023 - Wilkinson's (Wilko's) shop closed
2023 - Chequers Hotel turned into flats
2023 - Horse & Groom at Linby closed
2023 - Planning permission granted to Hucknall Flight Test Museum for a visitor facilities modular building
2023 - Red Lion is closed then very quickly reopens
2023 - Boys Brigade at Central Methodist Church is disbanded
2023 - More houses being built on former Broomhill Farm site (Bellway Homes)
2024 - New shop 'The Range' opens on former Wilkinson's site
2024 - Linby Horse and Groom reopens
2024 - Preparatory work begins for house building on former Hucknall Town football field
2024 - Hucknall Torkard Times ceases production
2024 - Notts County Council Offices being built on right hand side of Annesley Road - Gedling District Council
2024 - Plans put forward again to build homes on land close to Misk Hill
2024 - Constituency of Sherwood changes to Labour for M.P.
2024 - Harper Crewe 'Homes' being built on former football ground site on Watnall Road
2025 - Hucknall seems to have lost the £9 million promised by Government for updating, due to change to Labour government
2025 - Flight Test Museum still awaiting money from ADC
2025 - Plans put forward to move the 'Flying Bedstead' monument from a traffic island to a place close to the Flight Test Museum
2025 - Flight Test Museum officially opens
2025 - Pedestrian bridge over River Trent being built in Hucknall


Please notify me of any additions or amendments - Maureen Newton - July 2025


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