General Timeline (1945 - 2008)

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 P1 127, 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 Cooperative 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 Centenary

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 - Arnold 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