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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 1571 - Byron charity established 1687 - Earliest documentary evidence of textile industry in Hucknall 1740 - Gallery erected at the west end of the church to house choristers and musicians 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 1771 - Hucknall Inclosure Award 1788 - Education begins. George Green to be paid for his management of the Sunday School 1797 - Hucknall Methodists take Methodist New Connection denomination 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 1816 - 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 1817 - Zachariah Green born 1821 - Population 2,028 1824 - Funeral of Lord Byron 1824 - Frederick Ward invited to come to Hucknall to establish a full-time school 1826 - School built 1828 - First Co-operative Society founded on West Street 1828 - Annesley Road Methodist Chapel enlarged 1835 - First Baptist Chapel built 1840 - Penny post arrives in Hucknall 1840 - Glove-making introduced 1840 - (approx.) Old brass band formed 1841 - Ben Caunt beats Bendigo to win Championship 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 1852 - Lady Lovelace buried in St. Mary’s Church, Hucknall 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 1858 - Shetland hosiery trade founded 1855 - Woollatt’s - first mention in a directory of ‘falls’ 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) 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 - 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 1871 - Population 4,257 - Houses 895 1871 - School Board established 1872 - St. Mary Magdalene Parish Church restored cost £3,200 1872 - Trinity Methodist Chapel built cost £2,500 1872 - Beardall Schools built 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 - Weekly Market established 1874 - Gas street lamps introduced 1874 - Pews at St. Mary's Parish Church to be free and unappropriated 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 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 - 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 - 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) 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 1887 - Cemetery opened 1887 - Free Library built 1887 - Catholic Church on Carlingford Road opened 1888 - Parish Church enlarged cost £4,500 1888 - Butler's Hill Playground opened 1890 - Hucknall Girl's Society formed 1891 - Population 13,094 - Houses 2513 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 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 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. 1897 - Nurses Home built 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 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 - Hucknall Dispatch founded 1904 - Open-air swimming baths on Baths Lane opened 1905 - Serious smallpox epidemic 1905 - Primitive Methodist Chapel on Watnall Road installs an organ 1906 - Church Hall completed 1906 - Canon Godber died 1906 - Wesleyan Reform Chapel stone laying ceremony - chapel to cost £2,560 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 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 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 1911 - Population 15,870 1911 - Hucknall Collieries taken over by Sherwood Colliery Co. Ltd. 1911 - Salvation Army Hall opened on High Street 1913 - Vedonis factory built on Watnall Road/Farleys Lane - listed as making underwear 1913 - Pilot Palace opened on Annesley Road 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 1915 - Public Hall given to town 1916 - Hucknall Torkard drops the suffix and becomes just Hucknall 1918 - Engine house built for Raynor's factory on Byron Street 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 1921 - Population 16,834 1921 - Formation of Hucknall Philharmonic Society 1921 - Council begins to lay out design of Titchfield Park 1922 - Titchfield Park opened 1922 - War Memorial on Titchfield Park commemorated 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 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 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 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 1931 - Population 17,338 1932 - Anglo Plauen on the aerodrome site makes Schiffli Lace 1933 - First Slum Clearance commences 1933 - Long Hill Rise planned 1934 - Reynold's factory opened 1934 - First Hucknall Carnival 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 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 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 1939 - Hucknall No. 1 (Top Pit) pit head baths opens 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 1944 - New Fire Station opens 1945 - Forces Canteen at Reynolds Factory closed 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 1950 - Hollins: Viyella on Caddaw Avenue listed as making shirts 1950 - Annie Holgate Infant School opens 1951 - Population 23,290 1952 - Annie Holgate Junior School opens 1952 - Co-operative Society purchases mobile grocery shop for out-of-town estates 1953 - Jubilee of Sunday School building at Trinity 1953 - Flying Bedstead experimental rig begins testing - later to become Harrier jump jet 1954 - Co-operative Society branch on Beauvale Estate opens 1954 - Co-operative Society branch on Ruffs Estate opens 1955 - Annie Holgate Secondary School building unfinished but opens for pupils 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 1959 - Seymour Road Baptist Church opens 1960 - Catholic Church on Watnall Road opens - built by Bodill's at a cost of £40,000 excluding fittings 1961 - Population 23,470 1962 - Co-operative Society opens supermarket on High Street 1963 - Methodist Churches join. Trinity, Bourne and Wesley become Central Methodist Church 1964 - Last passenger train for almost 30 years runs through Hucknall 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 1967 - Catholic School on Walkmill Drive opens 1968 - Hucknall Zoo opens 1969 - Hucknall Co-operative Society amalgamates with Nottingham Co-operative Society 1970 - East Side Methodist Church on Bestwood Road opens 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 1974 - Hucknall Urban District Council disbanded 1974 - Hucknall joins with other areas to become part of Ashfield District Council 1976 - British Legion's Herbert Buzzard Court opens 1979 - Central Methodist Church Centre opens 1984 - Hucknall Heritage Society inaugurated 1986 - Hucknall Colliery closes 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 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 1995 - Certa Cito on Bolsover Street makes a variety of bags for schools 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 - Vedonis factory closes 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 1998 - New College Nottingham (Hucknall Centre) being built 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 - 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 - 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 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 Please notify me of any additions or amendments - Maureen Newton - October 2008 © 2005 -     Sherwood Web Services   All rights reserved.