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A LIST OF HUCKNALL DATES Timeline 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 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 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 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 1331 - John de Crumbewell gives land at Linby to Newstead Priory 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 1540 - All Newstead Priory lands sold to Sir John Byron 1548 - First Bulwell Wood Hall built in Hucknall parish 1571 - Byron charity established 1674 - Bulwell Wood Hall has 14 hearths in Hearth Tax Returns 1687 - Earliest documentary evidence of textile industry in Hucknall 1687 - First documentary evidence of open fields in Hucknall 1696 - Written list of Hucknall Torkard inhabitants 1705 – [Approximately] – Broomhill House built 1740 - Gallery erected at the west end of the church to house choristers and musicians 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 1769 - Act for enclosing open fields and commons 1770 - Friendly Society begins, later to become Hucknall Mill Sick Club 1771 - Hucknall Inclosure Award 1780 - Archbishop of York visits Hucknall 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 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 1801 - Population 1,497 1806 - Baptist meetings begin on Beardall Street 1808 - Methodist Sunday School begins on Annesley Road 1810 - Visit to Hucknall by John Harrison - Primitive Methodist pioneer 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 1814 - Byron estates transferred to Duke of Portland 1815 - Ben Caunt, prizefighter, Champion of England born 1815 - Date stone on former Methodist Chapel (now Romans on Annesley Road) 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 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 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 1833 - First list of Methodist members - 166 names 1835 - First Baptist Chapel built 1838 - Queen Victoria's Coronation Festivities took place 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 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 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 1854 - Ben Caunt dies - Bendigo is a coffin bearer 1855 - Woollatt’s - first mention in a directory of ‘falls’ 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 1861 - Ben Caunt dies 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 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 1870 - Bestwood Colliery began Sinking operations 1870 - The Old Coach & Six public house on High Street - contents auctioned and building demolished 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 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 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 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 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 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 1890 - Hucknall Girl's Society formed 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 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 1901 - Population 15,250 - Houses 3,126 1901 - Theatre Royal opens on Annesley Road 1901 - Linby & Papplewick Methodist Chapel - memorial stone laying 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 - Hucknall Dispatch founded 1904 - Open-air swimming baths on Baths Lane opened 1904 - Cattle market opened on Market Place 1905 - Serious smallpox epidemic 1905 - Primitive Methodist Chapel on Watnall Road installs an organ 1905 - Cattle Market experiment deemed a failure 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 1907 - Godber Memorial Hall officially opened 1907 - Sale of Canon Godber's estate 1907 - St. Peter's Church reopened after refurbishment 1908 - Co-operative Society branch on Charles Street opens 1908 - Formation of Duke Street 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 1922 - Titchfield Park opened 1922 - War Memorial on Titchfield Park commemorated 1923 - Prince of Wales visits 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 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 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 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 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 1933 - First Slum Clearance commences 1933 - Long Hill Rise planned 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 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 1937 - Wighay Nook, an old farmhouse on Annesley Road, demolished 1937 - Bulwell Wood Hall destroyed by fire 1937 - Demise of Hucknall Silver Band 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 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 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 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 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 1949 - Youth Employment Bureau established 1949 - New canteen at Highfield Hosiery Factory on Byron Street 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 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 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 1953 - Death of Capt. Ronald Shepherd. First man to test Flying Bedstead 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 1955 - Annie Holgate Secondary School building unfinished but opens for pupils 1955 - Stallards building demolished allowing South Street corner to be improved 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 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 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 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 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 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 1984 - Local collieries influenced by National miners strike 1984 - Hucknall Heritage Society inaugurated 1985 - Papplewick Lido closes 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 Please notify me of any additions or amendments - Maureen Newton - December 2021 © 2005 -    All rights reserved.