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1920 AD |
A merger of companies brings the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company to Chippenham |
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Aldbourne
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1920 AD |
Barnes' Coaches established |
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Amesbury
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1920 AD |
Recreation ground opened |
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Amesbury
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1920 AD |
A motorised fire engine purchased and a new building to house it built at junction of Earls Court Road and Salisbury Road; houses in Holders Road built by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research as an experimental examination of rural building methods and a test of new materials, techniques and apparatus |
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Box
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1920 - 1925 AD |
Restorations and enlargements were carried out at Hazelbury Manor for the owner, G.J. Kidston, by Sir Harold Brakspear |
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Broughton Gifford
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1920 AD |
Vestry formed in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, carved oak screen built across the tower arch to form a vestry in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. |
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Calne
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1920 AD |
Harris food processing factory (fronting New Road) opens: serious flooding in New Road |
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Chippenham
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1920 AD |
A merger of companies brings the Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. to Chippenham |
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Corsham
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1920 AD |
Town Hall renovated and public bath installed |
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Cricklade
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1920 AD |
Cricklade Football Club formed |
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Cricklade
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1920 - 1926 AD |
British school converted to the Royal cinema |
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Downton
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1920 AD |
Bacon curing began. |
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Marlborough
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1920 AD |
First council houses built; William Golding the novelist lived at 29 The Green and attended Marlborough Grammar School |
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Melksham
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1920 AD |
The Co-operative Society establish a creamery opposite the railway station; Melksham House is virtually destroyed by fire leaving only the front of the house intact |
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Minety
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1920 AD |
Burial grounds at church enlarged |
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Pewsey
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1920 - 1997 AD |
Oil depot in Wilcot Road adjoining the railway station |
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Pewsey
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1920 AD |
A monthly livestock market is held from this time; Buckleaze Mill converted from a flour and grist mill to generate electricity; first piped water supply provided |
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Pewsey
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1920 AD |
Pewsey Electric Light Company converts the Town Mill to generate electricity for the village; Strict Baptist Chapel sold; Primitive Methodist chapel closed by this time |
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Purton
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1920 AD |
War Memorial, the Wayside Cross, in High Street unveiled and dedicated; workhouse is renamed North View |
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Ramsbury
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1920 AD |
Osmond's iron foundry in Newtown Road closed |
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Ramsbury
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1920 - 1922 AD |
First council houses in the village built in Whittonditch Road |
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Ramsbury
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1920 AD |
A small manual telephone exchange for 40 subscribers installed in the Post Office |
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Sherston
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1920 AD |
New Inn opens for M Wilcox's beer retailing business; first movies shown in Sherston at the Angel Hotel |
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Sherston
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1920 AD |
Sherston Mens' Club starts in the British Schoolrooms |
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Westbury
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1920 AD |
Westbury and District Choral Society founded; war memorial built in Market Place |
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Westbury
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1920 AD |
Vista cinema opens in Warminster Road; Westbury United Football Club founded |
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Wilton
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1920 AD |
First bus service between Wilton and Salisbury run by Wilts and Dorset Motor Services; Wilton Park School closed |
