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The Housemans of Nidderdale
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 1923 - 1924 (1 year) Submit Photo / Document
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| 1 | 1923 | - 1923—1923: Roads in Great Britain classified with A and B numbers
- 1923—1923: Hubble shows there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way
- 1923—1923: First American broadcasts heard in Britain
- 1 January 1923—1 January 1923: The majority of the railway companies in Great Britain grouped into four main
companies, the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, LMSR - lasted until nationalisation in 1948
- 16 February 1923—16 February 1923: Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
- 28 April 1923—28 April 1923: First Wembley cup final (West Ham 0, Bolton 2) - 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles ' popular song of the time became the West Ham anthem
- 28 September 1923—28 September 1923: First publication of Radio Times
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| 2 | 1924 | - 4 January 1924—4 January 1924: First Labour government in Britain, headed by Ramsay MacDonald
- 5 February 1924—5 February 1924: Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were
first broadcast by the BBC
- 31 March 1924—31 March 1924: British Imperial Airways begins operations (formed by merger of four British
airline companies - became BOAC in 1940)
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