Social Snapshots 1900-1968 inc

1968 Poetry Competion. Report and poem of Dennis Claydon, winner click 1968 The Bard of Lacey Green for details.

1967 Police Constable Smith reports on his working conditions. It was during The Cold War. click 1967 The Last Village Bobby for his detailed report.

1962. Coldest winter for 200 years. click Weather for more.

1960. End of National Service in peacetime. Started in 1949. click National Service for more details

1948-1960. click 1948-1960 Stocken Farm with Dick & Hilda West for the description of farming Stocken Farm in Lacey Green during these years

1858. Coombs. The site of Coombs had been sold, but click Coombs for its long history going back to the 1600s

1956. Living at Parslows Hillock. Click 1956 Life at 4 Hillock Cottages for a visitor's view.

1956. click Rita Probert as she describes Loosley Row in 1956.

1953. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. click 1953 Queen Elizabeth's Coronation Celebrations for the celebrations in Lacey Green and Loosley Row.

1952. Visiting Lacey Green in the 1950s. click 1953 Barbara Harmon (Autobiography) for the full story.

1952. King George VI died on 6th February 1952. Princess Elizabeth, on tour in Kenya, returned to Britain as Queen Elizabeth II.

1949. Start of National Service in peacetime.. click National Service for more details.

1947. A terrible winter. click 1947 A Bitter Winter for information.

1944. Lacey Green Airfield constructed. clich 1944 Stocken Farm Airfield for the story and photos

1939. Rationing started in 1939. It was extended several times. The figures recorded here were in 1945. click 1945 Standard rationing WW2 for details.

1939. Pan-Am launched its first passenger flight from New York to Marseilles on June 28th.1939. A regular service was established after WW2.

.1936. Death of King George V. George V was King from 1910 to 20^th January 1936. His son, Edward succeeded as King Emperor Edward VIII. Edward caused a constitutional crisis when he proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite, who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second. Edward abdicated on 11^th December 1936.   His coronation never took place.   He was King for 326 days. George VI became King on 11^th December 1936.   George was Edward’s brother.

1936.Television broadcasting was officially launched from Alexandra Palace in London on November 2nd 1936

1935 Reflcting Roadstuds Established. In 1933 on a dark foggy night, with the usual guiding tramlines up for repair, Percy Shaw saw two lights.  They were the eyes of a cat sitting on a fence, reflected by his car headlights. It gave him an inspired idea. By 1934 he invented and patented the reflective road stud or “cat’s eye". In 1935 Percy Shaw set up a company “Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd” to manufacture his invention.  He was the Managing Director. Percy Shaw was awarded the OBE.

1919. The first non-stop flight across the Atlantic had been accomplished by Alcock and Brown in June 1919.

1917. The House of Windsor. following WW1, King George V changed the name of the Royal House from “Saxe-Coburg and Gotha” to “Windsor”.