Time Line1925-1929

Winsham has some new houses, but without 'mains' water, and squabbles over a billiard table in the Jubilee Hall. The village gets its first petrol pump, but needs standpipes for water.

Elsewhere.....

1925 Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin

1926 General Strike

1926 John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of Television

1927 Mein Kampf-2nd Volume published

1927 British Broadcasting Corporation is created

1928 All women over 21 get the vote

1928 First 'talkie' film is shown in the UK

1928 Herbert Hoover  elected President of USA

1927 & 1929 Britain wins the Schneider Trophy

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