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1900

  
         
         
         
  1903
  • Hullavington Station opened (more...)
         
  1905
         
  1907
         
         
 

1910
  • Jasmine Cottage -Then and now. An amazing transformation and history of a cottage and its inhabitants. The photo on the left  is of Thomas Greenman b 1842 and Mirium Charlotte Andrews Fry b 1844 with two of their sons outside Jasmine Cottage, Hullavington. Ken asked if we could find out its location and, to help us, he sent 2 other photo showing more of  the cottage ....(more)
         
         
         
  1914
  • Private J  Idle died on Aug 27 1914. He was a member
    of the 5th. Bn.,  The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and
    is buried in Hullavington Churchyard.  Not much is
    known but ...... (more)
       
  • Sixteen men from the village and area are remembered
    as having lost their  lives in the First World War .......(more)
     
         
         
         
         
         
 

1920

    F J Huntley buys Bell Farm
  1921  Patron & Vicar of St Mary Magdalene church  Eton Coll.; Edward Granville Mortimer
         
         
         
  1925
  • 21st April: an article from the Bristol Observer titled: HULLAVINGTON – A PICTURESQUE WILTSHIRE VILLAGE. ..(view)
     
  • 9th April:  an article from the North Wilts Herald about Hullavington titled: FROM SAXON DAYS : HULLAVINGTON’S INTERESTING HISTORY. ...(view)

 
  1926  Ernest William Smith becomes Rector of St Mary Magdalene 
 
         
         
         
         
 

1930

  
         
         
         
         
         
         
  1935   F J Huntley sells Bell Farm to the State  for Hullavington airfield
         
  1937
  • RAF Hulllavington was opened in 1937 as  Flying
    Training Station

http://www.northwilts.gov.uk/hullavington_airbase.pdf#search
=%22hullavington%20airbase%22

http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_library/Press_
notices/archive_2005/DCMS_171.htm

 
  1938   Henry Edward Baker becomes rector at St Mary Magdalene church
 
  1939
 

1940
  • August 14/15 Hullavington RAF Station is reported to
    have been attacked at 1853 hours, 12 HE bombs
    being dropped. A hangar was hit and set on fire
    - several casualties being trapped in the  wreckage.
    Seven dead and six seriously hurt are reported.
    http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/august14.html 
  1941

 
       
         
         
         
  1946
         
         
  1948
  • 6 FEB 1948 Type:Avro York C.1    
    The York overran the runway at RAF Hullavington, skidded on wet grass and ran into a ditch

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19480216-0%E2%8C%A9=nl

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19480216-0&lang=en
         
         
 

1950

  
         
  1952   Walter Norman Booker becomes rector at St Mary Magdalene church
 
  1953

2nd October: Rural Upheaval, The Changing Scene - Hullavington. An article from the Wiltshire Herald and Advertiser, ...(view)
  1954
  • Germ warfare experiment over Hullavington  (Click on link for details)
    "............Two months later, the chemical was dispersed from RAF
    Hullavington near Chippenham, Wiltshire, eastwards, with the lines
    of samplers placed firstly in a line 25 miles away near Hungerford,
     Berkshire and then 50 miles away between Pangbourne and
     Basingstoke in Hampshire.  ..........."
     
  1955
  • Aug 1955 - An experimental all-jet training
    programme commences at No. 2 Flying
    Training School,  Hullavington using the
    Jet Provost trainer. Click (here) for
    enlarged photo

       http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/line1950-59.html

 
         
  1957
  1958
  • 114 Squadron. reformed at Hullavington with
     Chipmunks for security duties in Cyprus,
    moving there in December, but was disbanded
     again on 14 March 1959. On 13 April the
    Squadron reformed at Colerne as a
    transport unit with Hastings until it was
     disbanded on 30 September 1961. It was
    reformed the next day at Benson to
    be the first Argosy Squadron, receiving
    its first aircraft in February 1962, which
    were flown until the Squadron was disbanded on 31 October 1971.  Click (here) for an enlarged photo
       http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/h114.html
  •  Eton College sell all of their remaining property in the village, with the exception of Jubilee Cottages.
         
         
 

1960

  
  1961
  • Hullavington Station Closed (more...)
         
  1963
         
  1965
  1966
  1967
         
         
 

1970
  • 1970s generally: Helen Mirren has a serene air that
    appears unruffled even by an unauthorised biography
     that purports to reveal – erroneously, she says – details
    of the time she spent in the 1970s at a hippie-style,
     free-love commune in a Wiltshire farmhouse. In Helen
     Mirren: the Biography, author Ivan Waterman describes
    meetings between Mirren and Princess Margaret and
    sing-songs around the piano at Surrendell Farm, a
    rural collective where cannabis was smoked and
    where Roddy Llewellyn was the head gardener.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/08/23/bfmirren23.xml&secure
    Refresh=true&_requestid=33831
     
  • Aerobatics championships held at Hullavington

http://sports123.com/abt/mw-i.html


 
         
         
         
  1974
  • Memories of Stuart Rae who worked at RAF Hullavington in 1974

       http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sw.rae/   click on "Meet Us"

  • 1974 was a sad year - a time when the Dutch Elm disease decimated the elm trees in the village
         
         
         
         
         
         
 

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  2005
  • TOP FIVE STRUCK BRIDGES IN 2005 - Hullavington comes second with 26 strikes on the Kingway Railway Bridge. 
    • Barrowby Rd, Grantham - 32
    • Malmesbury Rd, Hullavington, Wiltshire - 26
    • Springfield Road, Grantham - 16
    • Southend Lane, Lower Sydenham, London - 16
    • Water Street, Margam Moors Jcn, Wales - 16
    http://212.58.226.53/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/4509806.stm
      
  •   Pat & Village shop raise £486 for BBC's Children in Need
  2006
  • New Village Hall  Open (more)
     
  • 2141tractors smash record in Hullavington
     
  • Sonya Gould, 19, and Vanessa Haydock, 18, both privates in the Royal Logistics Corps, were "married" under new civil partnership laws. Pte Haydock, who is based at Hullavington in Wiltshire, said: "It was wonderful to get married. We want to be together forever.
    http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/display.var.686194.0.0.php
     
  • Aug 11thg to 15th New Village Hall Open days & Celebrations
     
  • Sept 2nd, 30th Annual Village Show. ...(view)
     
  • September. Hullavington music festival (The HarFest) entertained the village with with a series of 9 concerts and events many of which were sell outs. For details click (here)
     
  • 20 th October. Hullavington Village Hall officially opened by James Gray MP For details click (here).  Read the poems written by the poetry group to commemorate the event  (here)
     
  • Pat & Shop Raise £611 for Children in Need
     
  • Hullavington Christmas 2006 ..(View)
  2007