Chronology of important dates for  

      Sheerness during the lifetime of

       this cottage                                       

        1810 THIS COTTAGE WAS BUILT

     SOCIETY FORMED  FORERUNNER    OF COOPS)     

 1820 ADMIRALTY HOUSE BUILT FOR DUKE OF

  CLARENCE

     1823 OPENING OF NEW SHEERNESS DOCKYARD 

      1825 EDWARD BANKS BUILT THE CRESCENT, BANK’S TERRACE AND 
     THE ROYAL HOTEL

     1828 DOCKYARD CHURCH BUILT

        1832 SYNOGOGUE CONSTRUCTED SHEPPEY ST

         BLUETOWN  

        1836 HOLY TRINITY CHURCH BUILT  

        1850 SHEERNESS COOPERATIVE SOCIETY FORMED

           AND FIRST SHOP OPENED 

        1860 KINGSFERRY BRIDGE AND RAILWAY TO

        SHEERNESS   BUILT

       1863 ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST HENRY AND ST

       ELIZABETH DESIGNED AND BUILT BY E.W. PUGIN     

       1866 GREAT EASTERN REFITTED LEFT   SHEERNESS  

       FOR HER ROLE AS ACABLE LAYER

      1869 SHEERNESSFORTCOMPLETED   

      1872 ST PAUL’S CHURCH BUILT

      1872 HIPPODROME THEATRE OPENED       

      1882 VICTORIA WORKING MENS CLUB

      1883 FERRY SERVICE TO VLISSINGEN (FLUSHING)

      1888 SHEERNESS URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL FORMED

       1895 MAJOR JAMES MCCUDDEN BORN  .

        LIVED IN ALMA RD  FOR SOME TIME

         1901 SHEPPEY LIGHT RAILWAY OPENED

         1903 SHEERNESS TRAMWAY
         STARTED ONLY

         LASTED TO 1917 

        1905  MASONIC CLUB

        COMMENCED   

       1907 STANLEY HOOKER BORN.

       HE BECAME FAMOUS  

       ROLLS  ROYCE  ENGINEER

       1910 TECHNICAL SCHOOL BUILT (BECAME A HOSPITAL

    DURING 1^st WW)   

   1911 FIRST CINEMA, THE ELECTRIC, OPENED IN  

      SHEERNESS- LATER CALLED TOWER’S HALL AFTER

      THE THEN OWNER, THEN THE CAMBRIDGE 

      1913 THE ARCADIA CINEMA WAS OPENED OVER THE      

      WELLINGTON PUB NEXT TO THE COOP BUILDING   IT

      WAS   LATER NAMED THE ARCADIA

     1914 SHEERNESS AND SHEPPEY DECLARED CLOSED  

      AREA  WITH “PASSPORT” REQUIRED     

     1914 HMS BULWARK BLEW UP WITH LOSS OF

      800 LIVES

       1915  SIX MONTHS LATER

       HMS IRENE EXPLODED 

I      WITH LOSS OF 278 LIVES

          1917 TRAMWAY

           SYSTEM  CLOSED   

           1918 END OF

            1ST WORLD WAR

         1919 ECONOMICAL AND

        COPPERATIVE

        SOCIETIES  MERGED

        TO BECOME SHEERNESS

        COOPERATIVE AND ECONOMICAL SOCIETY

        1922 FERRY SERVICE TO FLUSHING STOPPED    

        1920 REFURBISHED HIPPODROME REOPENED

        1923 THE ARCADIA/CASINO CINEMA WAS CLOSED AND

        REOPENED AS THE WELLINGTON HALL

       1923 PAVILION THEATRE OPENED

      1924 SHEERNESSUDC BOUGHT A NEW MOTOR

      FIRE APPLIANCE  SHOWN HERE IN

      CARNIVAL OF THAT YEAR

       1925 THIS COTTAGE

        BECAME  A FISH

       AND CHIP SHOP 

       1925 OXFORD CINEMA IN RUSSELL

       STREET OPENED  

       1929 TOLLS ON KINGSFERRY

      ABOLISHED AFTER 525  YEARS  

     1936 ROD HULL

       BORN

     1936 ARGOSY CINEMA OPENED

      (NOW A BINGO HALL)

     1937 RITZ CINEMA OPENED  

       1937 OXFORD CINEMA CLOSED.

       IS STILL THERE