Old Vicarage Cottages

• 1720: South Sea Bubble financial collapse

• 1721: 1st Prime Minister - Robert Walpole

• 1723: Christopher Wren dies

• 1739: Britain & Spain start War of Jenkins' Ear

• 1746: Battle of Culloden

• 1750: Death of JS Bach

• 1753: British Museum founded

• 1759: Death of Handel

• 1761: Richard Ellman moves to Glynde

• 1764: Hargreaves invents Spinning Jenny

• 1770: New South Wales discovered by James Cook

• 1773: Boston Tea Party

• 1774: Priestley discovers oxygen

• 1775: American War of Independence starts

• 1776: American Declaration of Independence

• 1783: First hot air balloon flights

• 1789: French Revolution begins

• 1800: Act of Union creates United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland

• 1802: Beethoven debuts Moonlight Sonata

• 1803: Start of Napoleonic Wars

• 1805: Battle of Trafalgar: Death of Nelson

• 1807: Slave trade abolished

• 1815: End of Napoleonic Wars

• 1825: 1st railway opens (Stockton - Darlington)

• 1829: Metropolitan Police founded

• 1832: Morse invents Electric Telegraph

• 1837: Queen Victoria crowned

• 1838: National Gallery founded

• 1840: Queen Victora & Prince Albert marry

• 1841: Glynde School built

• 1842: Irish "Potato Famine" starts

• 1847: British Museum founded

• 1848: Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto

• 1851: Great Exhibition opens in Hyde Park

• 1854: Start of Crimean War

• 1859: Darwin's Origin of Species published

• 1861: American Civil War begins

• 1865: Salvation Army founded

• 1869: Suez Canal opened

• 1871: Trades Unions legalised

• 1872: Secret ballots introduced for elections

• 1873: Dr Livingstone dies

• 1876: Bell invents telephone

• 1878: Electric light bulb invented

• 1881: Pasteur invents innoculation

• 1884: Speaker Brand retires

• 1884: Fabian Society founded

• 1885: Glynde & Beddingham Cricket Club founded

• 1887: Queen Victoria's Jubilee

• 1894: Manchester Ship Canal opened

• 1899: Boer War starts

• 1901: Queen Victoria dies

• 1903: 1st aeroplane flight by Wright Bros.

• 1905: Ragged Lands established

• 1909: Introduction of Old Age Pension

• 1912: Sinking of the Titanic

• 1914: Start of 1st World War

• 1916: Battle of the Somme

• 1918: End of 1st World War

• 1919: 1st trans-atlantic flight

• 1920: League of Nations founded

• 1922: Irish Free State founded

• 1924: Lenin dies

• 1926: General Strike

• 1928: Women get the vote

• 1934: Hitler assumes power in Germany

• 1936: Regular BBC TV broadcasts begin

• 1939: Start of 2nd World War

• 1940: Dunkirk evacuation

• 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbour

• 1944: "D-Day" landings in France

• 1945: End of 2nd World War

• 1946: USA tests atom bomb at Bikini Island

• 1947: Sound Barrier broken

• 1948: NHS founded

• 1950: Korean War starts

• 1951: Suez "Crisis"

• 1953: Queen Elizabeth II crowned

• 1954: Bannister runs 1st 4 minute mile

• 1955: Glynde Place opened to the public

• 1955: ITV starts broadcasting

• 1957: 1st dog in space

• 1958: Gatwick Airport opened

• 1959: M1, the 1st motoway, opened

• 1961: 1st man in space

• 1963: US President Kennedy assassinated

• 1965: Post Office Tower opened

• 1966: England win World Cup

• 1967: 1st heart transplant

• 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated

• 1969: 1st men on the moon

• 1970: North Sea Oil discovered

• 1971: Decimal coins introduced

• 1972: "Bloody Sunday", 13 killed in Derry

• 1974: US President Nixon resigned

• 1976: Harold Wilson resigned as PM

• 1978: 1st "Test Tube" baby born

• 1979: Margaret Thatcher elected, UK's 1st woman PM

• 1981: Prince Charles married Lady Di

• 1982: Falklands War

• 1984: Miners' Strike starts

• 1985: Live Aid concert

• 1987: Hurricane lashes South Coast

• 1987: "Black Monday" Stock Market crash

Nearly all of the images on this site are scans of original postcards, illustrations or photgraphs. We have attempted to reproduce those originals here as faithfully as possible.

However, many of the originals are now showing signs of age. Modern digital techniques allow us to enhance those images and, in some cases, we have done so. It is important to realise that these "enhancements" can also introduce "detail" that was never there and colours that may look revived and "truer" are not neccesarily the original colours.

We include the "enhanced" versions because they often make it easier to see what you're looking at but it should be borne in mind that they are the result of unintelligent computer algorithms and should not be regarded as more accurate than the original versions. If you can't see something in the original it probably wasn't there.

No. 3 Old Vicarage Cottages, in 2007.