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1 NOTES KEY PEOPLE IN HISTORY SINCE 1850 Cedar Biscuit Ref: A NOTES Key Date Lived Illustration Charles Darwin Origin of Species Crouching ape morphing into man Florence Nightingale (Nurse in Crimean War) Lady with the lamp Lord Kitchener of Khartoum Kitchener WWI poster Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst Chained to railings/ Votes for women Winston Churchill Churchill V for Victory Field Marshal Montgomery Monty His face in beret with cap badges Lawrence of Arabia Lawrence in Arab clothes Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister ) Face of Maggie Stephen Hawking (Physicist A Brief History of Time) Figure in wheelchair Sir Roger Bannnister 4 minute mile Running figure Steve Redgrave Olympic Gold medal rower a figure rowing Reign Monarchs since Queen Victoria (b d. 1901) Queen Victoria s head Edward VII (b.1842 d. 1910) no image George V (b.1866 d. 1936) Bearded KingGeorge V A - KEY PEOPLE IN HISTORY SINCE (abdicated) Edward VIII (b d. 1972) no image George VI (b d. 1952) & Queen Elizabeth no image Elizabeth II (b ) Queen s head in crown DATES OF REIGNS SHOWN ON PANEL

2 NOTES Developments in Industry since 1850 Cedar Biscuit B carvings NOTES 1866 First Atlantic cable successfully laid Fish looking at cable 1868 Trades Union Congress formed Strike picket line image/brazier 1875 Telephone invented by Bell Old telephone 1879 Electric power Electric light bulb 1896 Marconi perfected wireless telegraphy old radio with dials 1898 Radium discovered Nuclear warning symbol 1936 Television Service Started TV set 1962 Discover of DNA genetic code diag of DNA code double helix Computer systems 1856 First computer (Charles Babbage) computer screen 1950 Floppy disk invented Floppy disk icon 1975 Microsoft formed 1976 Apple Computers formed Apple symbol 1979 CD invented CD symbol 1985 Microsoft Windows launched 2001 X Box launched X Box logo Bridges 1890 Forth Rail Bridge built Bridges carved (oldest nearest the centre of the tree) 1964 Forth Road Bridge 1991 ERII Bridge over Thames at Dartford 2000 Millenium Bridge wobbly bridge over Thames B - DEVELOPMENTS IN INDUSTRY SINCE 1850

3 NOTES GLOBAL CONFLICTS INVOLVING UK SINCE TREE PLANTED 1854 Crimean War 1853 to 1856 (Balaclava 1854) Charge of Light Brigade Afghan Wars Mules carrying gun barrels/wheels of guns up mountain track nd Anglo-Afghan War rd Anglo-Afghan War 1979 USSR-Afghan War 2001 US overthrew Taliban 1879 Zulu War Zulu shield & spear Boer Wars Pith helmet Sudan Wars - General Gordon perished at Khartoum Gen Gordon s face in fez with camel 1885 Sudan War 1898 Kitchener completed conquest of Sudan World War I The Great War Gas mask, poppy (foreground) Tank driving over trench (background) World War II Collage of Spitfire plane & parachute Atom bomb, Swastika, Star of David Korean War - Helicopter carrying field gun 1961 Berlin Wall Built (Cold War) Wall being built at one end + coming down 1989 Berlin Wall torn down at the other 1982 Falkland Islands War Soldier with haversack yomping with burning ship in background Persian Gulf Wars Gulf War Iraq War Anglo-US invasion collage Burning oil fields + Cruise missile NOTES C - GLOBAL CONFLICTS INVOLVING THE UK

4 TEACHERS NOTES Transport development since 1850 Cedar Biscuit Reference D 1850 Horse-drawn carriages still in use horse-drawn 4 wheeled passenger carriage 1856 Steam trains Bracknell Station opened in 1856 stream train 1862 Balloon hot-air Balloon flight reached height of 7 miles. Balloon with men in basket 1869 Cutty Sark built 3 masted Clipper 3 masted clipper sailing ship 1870 Penny-farthing bicycle Penny-farthing 1885 Petrol Engine invented Daimler and Benz 3 Wheeled Benz 1908 Ford Model T first affordable mass produced car no carving 1909 Flight Bleriot crossed channel in aeroplane 1909 Aeroplane 1912 Titanic sank The supposedly unsinkable liner Titanic sinking 1939 Helicopter first successful prototype by Igor Sikorsky Helicopter 1941 Jet Engine invented by Sir Frank Whittle (b.1907) no carving 1969 Apollo Moon landing first manned-spacecraft to moon Apollo II rocket 1976 Concorde first commercial supersonic airliner. Concorde 2003 Final passenger flight of Concorde to Heathrow 1994 Channel Tunnel opened high speed trains Tunnel with highspeed train 2004 Queen Mary II biggest ever luxury passenger liner Passenger liner 2004 Beagle leader failed on Mars but US lander succeeded US rover robot NOTES D - TRANSPORT SINCE THIS TREE WAS PLANTED

5 NOTES BRACKNELL S DEVELOPMENT Cedar Biscuits Reference: E 1851 Bracknell Church built no carving 1856 Bracknell Station built no carving 1863 Broadmoor Asylum opened Bars on a window 1867 Queensberry Rules adopted Pair of boxing gloves 1880 Cricket Club opened Cricket bat, ball & stumps 1896 Bracknell Town Football Club Football & goalposts 1900 Brick making industry flourishing Brick wall & chimneys 1903 Wokingham & Bracknell Gazette published Newspaper with W&BG across page 1934 Regal Cinema opened Cinema screen with curtains & Regal 1946 RMA Sandhurst amalgamated w. Woolwich Officer on horse with sword 1949 Bracknell designated as a New Town Housing Estate and word New Town 1955 Rugby Club formed Rugby ball and posts 1971 M4 through Berkshire opened motorway sign M Bracknell Forest Borough Council formed Council logo 2004 Restoration of Lily Hill Park images of magnificent trees NOTES E - BRACKNELL S DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1850

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