House History Timeline
Viewing bonniegough's Victorian Terrace on Thoresby Street, Hull
2003
We moved into the house and are currently living here!
1998
Good Friday Agreement
A broad cross section of political groups in Northern Ireland, and the Irish and British governments sign an agreement which voted that no change should be made to the status of Northern Ireland except by majority consent. The Northern Ireland Executive is created.
1997
New Labour
A Labour landslide results in Tony Blair taking over from John Major as PM.
1987
John and Margaret Hickson Until 2003 John and Margaret moved in.
1979
Thatcherism
The Conservative Party gain power and Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first female Prime Minister. Her term lasts until 1991, her policies emphasise central government and private enterprise whilst undermining the power of the Trade Unions.
1978
Winter of Discontent
Eight years of unrest and discontent at the declining economy, continuing inflation and rising rates of unemployment result in a number of trade unions striking.
1955
Photo of your local area from 1955
Pearson Park in 1955.
1947
India and Pakistan are independent
India and Pakistan gain independence from the British Empire. They are closely followed by Asia and Africa in an active period of decolonisation.
1945
End of World War Two
Germany’s surrender brings an end to the War. An estimated 62 million had lost their lives.
1941
Until 1987 Charlotte Dean passed away, and the house seemed to pass to Barbara French and Michael Noddings until it was allowed to be sold in 1987. It is possible the house was rented out or left empty for some time.
1940
Children walking to Thoresby Primary School.
1939
Britain Enters World War One
After failed attempts to appease Hitler and settle the future of the Sudetenland, the Nazis invade Poland and Britain declares war. A global military conflict ensues between the Allies; Poland, British Commonwealth and France and the axis; France, Germany and later Italy and Japan.
1936
Edward VIII Crowned king
Edward VIII accedes to the throne and falls in love with American divorcee wallis Simpson. Constitutional crisis ensues and he is forced to abdicate in favour of his brother George VI.
1931
Charlotte Dean Until 1941 (Occupier)
1926
General Strike
The General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) calls a general strike in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the government reducing wages and prevent conditions for coal miners worsening. The stike lasts for nine days.
1925
Simpson Clark Until 1931 (Occupier)
1922
Civil War in Ireland
Following mass riots in Belfast, the Irish free state is formed. This sees the beginning of civil war between supporters and opponents of the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921 which had established an Irish Free state.
1920
League of Nations
The newly formed League of Nations meet for the first time.
1919
The Treaty of Versailles
Following Germany’s surrender, she is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles with the allies following a six month Peace Conference in Paris. The humiliating terms of the Treaty arguably led to the rise of Hitler’s Nazi Party.
1902
Thoresby Street School was established.
1901
Accession of Edward VII
Four years after her diamond jubilee, Queen Victoria dies. Her death is an occasion of national mourning.
1900
Fanny Wilson, Annie M Ward, Edith E Ward, Ethel M Jobling Until 1925 The first people to live in the house were Fanny (born in Leeds), and Annie (born in Scotland). They were joint owners of the house and both were elementary schoolmistresses. In 1900, Fanny was 33 and Annie was 31. They were spinsters. With them lived Annie's younger sister, Edith, who was 14. She was an elementary school teacher and was born in Salford. They had a general domestic servant named Ethel, who was born in Hull and was 21 in 1900.
1899
Second Boer War
After receiving military equipment from German, the Boers re-armed and fought on the borders of the Cape Colony and Natal. The British army immediately sent reinforcements. The severity of the British actions (including the use of concentration camps in which inmates were subjected to cruel work regimes and fatal diseases spread) in South Africa was strongly opposed by liberal politicians as the extreme of imperialism. The war ended in 1902 with the Treaty of Vereeiging, the two independent republics were lost and absorbed into the British Empire.
1898
Thoresby Street, including our house, was built.
1896
The Alexandra Land Property Mortgage and Investment Company Ltd. held 29 acres of land on Newland Tofts, on the West Side of Princes Avenue.
1888
Jack the Ripper
Five prostitutes are brutally murdered in the Whitechapel area of London’s east end. The killer, “Jack the Ripper”, have never been definitively identified, and the case resulted in worldwide press coverage and hysteria.
1855
Map from 1855
Map of Newland Tofts in 1855-1856.
1846
Corn Laws Repealed
The long standing campaign of the Anti-Corn-Law League, manufacturers who wanted to sell goods overseas as well as in Britain, end when Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel repeals the Corn Laws.
1845
Irish Potato Famine
As a result of British economic interference, the “blight” potato fungus, and destructive farming methods, there is widespread famine in Ireland resulting in 500,000 deaths and mass emigration.
