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Chronology of important dates for
Sheerness during the lifetime of
this cottage
1810 THIS COTTAGE WAS BUILT
FOR A DOCKYARD WORKER 1812 HENRY RUSSELL COMPOSER
OF LIFE ON AN OCEAN WAVE
AND OTHER POPULAR
SONGS BORN HENRY LEVY
IN BLUETOWN OF A JEWISH FAMILY
(SEE PAGE 6 JEWISH COMMUNITY)
1813 THE FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH
WAS BUILT IN ROSE St

1 816 THE ECONOMICAL
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
1859 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
BUILT IN ALMA RD
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 1st 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 |