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1910 |
15 January - 10 February |
John Hendley Morrision Kirkwood elected Conservative MP for the Essex South Eastern parliamentary
constituency - including Basildon. The General Election of January/February 1910 produced a
hung parliament. The Liberal party won the most seats and formed a minority government with the
support of the Irish Parliamentary Party. |
3 - 19 December |
Mr. John Hendley Morrision Kirkwood re-elected Conservative MP for the Essex South Eastern
parliamentary constituency - including Basildon. Liberals win General Election with a majority
of 1 seat and form a minority government with the support of the Irish Parliamentary Party. |
1911 |
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The Vange and Pitsea Horticultural Society
formed. Still active today, membership in its early years stood at 400 and was mainly
male. Today, women form the main core of its members. |
13 February |
The new Langdon Hills Council school opens. The
school, located in the High Road before the hill rises, replaced an earlier school that still stands
at the summit of Crown Hill and which is now a private residence. Langdon Hills became a County
Primary and closed in 1973 when a larger school was built in nearby Berry Lane called
Lincewood. The school building is still in use for educational purposes and now being used by
Essex County Council as a Children's Support Service Centre. |
1912 |
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The first telephone in Laindon installed. An early single figure phone number was Bluehouse
Farm on Laindon 2. Other single figure numbers still in use in the mid 1930s were the Laindon
Hotel on Laindon 3, Grays Co-operative Society, High Road on Laindon 4, Crown Hotel on Laindon
5, Burnie and Coleman, Solicitors of 7 High Road on Laindon 7, Brookmans Farm, Lower Dunton Road
on Laindon 8 and the Prince of Wales, Wash Road on Laindon 9. |
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Mr. John Hendley Morrision Kirkwood, Member of Parliament for the Essex South Eastern
constituency representing the Basildon area resigns from his parliamentary seat to become a
Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. His successor is Rupert Guinness who in an unopposed
by-election on 16th March, 1912 retained the seat for the Conservative party through to 1918
when a new Southend seat is created and he is elected its first MP. |
1913 |
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1914 |
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The Cole family establish a grocery business in
Laindon. This lasted through to the 1970s and included a shop in the High Road, Langdon Hills
and a stall on Basildon market. |
1915 |
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1916 |
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1917 |
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1918 |
14 December |
Mr. Frank Hilder elected Coalition Conservative MP for the Essex South Eastern parliamentary
constituency - including Basildon. A coalition government is formed with Liberal David Lloyd
George as Prime Minister. |
1919 |
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Parkinson's Bros garage opens in Laindon. Bert, Cecil and Cliff Parkinson open a garage in
an ex army hut on the corner of Somerset Road and High Road, Laindon. All full range of
services were available from mechanical repairs, including cycles, to their own brand of oil.
They even had a petrol pump and taxi service. When the A127 opened in the 1920s they opened another
garage on the Arterial Road. Cliff would later run the business for more than
40 years until 2004, by which time Parkinson's had relocated to the corner of Durham Road into
the former Green's Stores when land at Somerset Road was developed as a roundabout. |
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Text researched and written 2001 with revisions and additions 2002-2007,2010,2011.
Copyright © 2001-2007,2010,2011, B. Cox - Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. |
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