Time Line1900-1904
Winsham Parish struggled with water and drainage problems while in the rest of the world other things were happening:-
United Kingdom:-
1901 - Death of
Queen Victoria. Edward VII
becomes King
1901-'Taff Vale' judgment leads to birth of Labour Party
1902-End of 2nd Boer War
1904 -Work begins on Rotherhithe Tunnel
1904-'Entente Cordiale' signed between Gt. Britain & France
Events in the wider world:-
1904-Theodore Roosevelt elected President of the USA
1903-Pius X becomes Pope
The Arts:
1901- Death of Toulouse-Lautrec
1901 -Thomas Hardy publishes 'Poems of the Past & present
1901-Death of Giuseppi Verdi
1902- Elgar & Benson write 'Land of Hope & Glory
1903- Death of Paul Gauguin
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