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Local
Timeline 1800 - 1849
Some
non local info is shown in brackets after date.
1800
First
recorded Smallpox epidemic in Warmley area.
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 awaiting re-development.
1834 (Tolpuddle
Martyrs)
1835 (circa)
Pin
production ceased at the Tower Lane site.
1837 (Victoria
becomes Queen)
Oldland National School now St
Anne's School is built.
1839
The statue
of "Sally" was added to the now famous
barn in Longwell Green. Supplied by local contractor
for the sum of eight shillings (40p).The statue
is thought to of originated from Keynsham Abbey
and portrays Ceros, Godess of the Harvest.
1840
"The
Old Bone Mill" at Oldland Bottom closed down.
(Produced chemicals and latterly white buttons for
corduroy trousers.) Now a private residence, St
Anne's Lodge.
1842 (Mines Act
bans women & children under 10 working underground)
1843
(SS Great Britain Launch)
1844
(6.5 hour working day limit introduced for children
8-13)
1845
Warmley
Congregational Church was founded originally in
a small meeting room where the war memorial now
stands, moving to Chapel Lane Warmley the following
year. British School now Redfield Edge opens
in Oldland. (on land donated by Gabriel Goldney
of Chippenham). Operated as primary and secondary
school until 1951. Now primary only.
1847
(circa)
Alfred Davidson started production
of stoneware and pottery products at the Tower Lane
works. (Ex Champion's factory.)
1847 (10 hour
working day limit introduced for children 13-18)
1848
(Gold found in California)
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