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Local
Timeline 1800 - 1833
Some
non local info is shown in brackets after date.
1800
First
recorded Smallpox epidemic in Warmley area.
Richard Haynes (AKA Dick-Boy) Infamous Highway
Robber from Oldland was excecuted in Bristol.
1804
Siston
Hill Colliery opened. (closed in the 1870's)
1805 (Battle
of Trafalgar)
1810
Bridgeyate
Methodist Chapel opens.
1811
Oldland
Tabernacle (Old Chapel) Church opens.
1813
Riot
reported in Bitton, two policemen assaulted.
1815 (Battle
of Waterloo)
1819
Working
day for juveniles cut to 12 hours (1819) Turnpike
cottage at junction of Barry Road and Cherry Gardens
was built.
1820
Railway
Tavern, Poplar Road North Common was built. (Closed
down in the 1960's) Now a private residence.
1823 (Death penalty
abolished for over 100 "minor" crimes)
Major
extension and modernisation of Bitton Vicarage.
1825
Bitton
Battery Mill is sold and converted to a paper mill.
1827
Medieval
Chapel is demolished in Oldland to make way for
the building of St Anne's Church.
1828
The "Avon
and Gloucestershire Light Railway" was finally
started by the Kennet and Avon Canal Company. It
was the second oldest overground rail system in
the West of England predating Brunel's GWR by 10
years. (A&G incorporated into an Act of Parliament
19/6/1928)
1830
St Anne's
Church, Oldland is built. Hole Lane pit in Warmley
and Avon Wharf in Keynsham are linked by the A&G
Light Railway. Norman Road bridge over the
"Avon and Gloucestershire Light Railway"
was built. (still exists)
1831
Oldland
Tabernacle Church is enlarged. The "Avon and
Gloucestershire Light Railway" reached Siston
Hill Pit. Used only by horse drawn trucks for coal
transportation. (also known as the Tram / Dram Way.)
The first passengers used the railway in 1831, all
were company managers they made the journey from
Siston Hill Pit to Keynsham in about 45 mins.
1832
Grimsbury
Colliery ceased coal production. The "Avon
and Gloucestershire Light Railway" official
opening date July 1832.
1833
Warmley
Methodist Church which became Mary Help of Christians,
was built at Tower Road South. Church closed in
1998. Building still exists, now converted to housing.
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