Timeline (1990-2009)
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| « 1989 | At St John's | In & Around Stratford | In The Church | In The World |
| 1990 | David Richards becomes Priest in Charge of St John's Forrest Atkins becomes curate |
HTTP & HTML created by Tim Berners-Lee. The World Wide Web is born. John Major becomes Prime Minister The Gulf War |
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| 1991 | Stratford Fruit and Vegetable Market Closes Rather than a southern approach, the government decides on an eastern route through Essex to London for new international lines - with opportunities for regeneration along the way. This is advantageous to Stratford's campaign; Newham argues the case for a station and terminus on the Rail Lands even more strongly. |
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| 1992 | Maria Holmden becomes Parish Deacon | Stratford City Challenge begins. This locally led programme brings key initial improvements to Stratford, including the Regional Station, the cinema, Stratford Circus and town centre improvements. Two key government-funded programmes help achieve regeneration: Stratford and Temple Mills SRB (Single Regeneration Budget), and Stratford Tomorrow's City SRB. Each programme lasts seven years and is managed by a new local body, the Stratford Development Partnership. |
Church of England approves ordination of women to the priesthood. | William Jefferson Clinton becomes President of The United States |
| 1993 | The government launches a competition to select locations for the stations between Ashford and St Pancras - Newham is as keen as ever for Stratford to be one of them. | |||
| 1994 | Maria Holmden becomes Curate | London and Continental Railways (LCR) submits a competition bid that includes Stratford and a commitment to regenerate the area around a new International Station on the Rail Lands - it wins. | Nelson Mandela inaugurated as president of South Africa | |
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| 1996 | Maria Holmden leaves St John's for All Saints, Leyton Modicum Okello becomes curate |
The Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act is passed by Parliament. This means that the scheme led by LCR will go ahead. An agreement with the government transfers rights to the Stratford Rail Lands to LCR. | ||
| 1997 | David Richards is made Vicar of St Johns Forrest Atkins leaves St John's for a Chaplaincy in Dubai The Archdeacon of West Ham, The Ven. Michael Fox, digs the first hole for the new church extension. |
LCR runs a competition to find development partners for the regeneration of Stratford. A consortium made up of the property developers Chelsfield and Stanhope is the winner. Masterplanning architects Arup help prepare their proposal and continue to work on the scheme. An order under the Transport and Works Act secures formal government consent for the International Station. | Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister | |
| 1998 | Church extension opened by Rt Rev Roger Sainsbury, Bishop of Barking, and Stephen Timms MP. | |||
| 1999 | Modicum Okello leaves St John's for St Matthew's, West Ham (external link) & later Hall Green, Birmingham | Jubilee Line Extension to Stratford opens. | The New Millennium is celebrated worldwide, a year early. | |
| 2000 | John Richardson leaves St John's for St Mary, Henham | George Walker Bush becomes President of The United States | ||
| 2001 | The Victorian Theatre Royal, Stratford East, made famous by Joan Littlewood, is reopened after a £7 million refurbishment Work begins on Section 2 of the CTRL. Ground is broken on the Stratford Rail Lands and work begins to prepare for construction of the International Station. The Stratford City Development Partnership, which consists of Chelsfield, Stanhope and LCR, and which has been working together on plans since 1997, is formally set up. |
The World Trade Towers in New York City are destroyed by commercial airliners hijacked by terrorists. | ||
| 2002 | James Maddern becomes curate at St John's | Work begins on site to excavate deep underground railway tunnels that lead from Stratford to St Pancras and from Stratford to Dagenham. The earth from the tunnels will be used to raise the land at Stratford by 6 metres. | Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. The US and an international coalition of forces attack Afghanistan. |
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| 2003 | The Stratford City Development partners submit their outline planning application - a huge document that needs a van to carry it - to the London Borough of Newham, surrounding boroughs and other planning bodies. Planning Aid for London helps local people and organisations interpret and feed back on the detail of one of the largest planning applications ever in the UK! | |||
| 2004 | James Maddern, St John's Curate, marries Katie Pearce at St John's. 2004 in Pictures |
Newham Council, The Government Office for London and the Mayor of London approve the Stratford City planning application. London wins its bid for the 2012 Olympics. |
Invasion of Iraq. | |
| 2005 | James Maddern leaves St Johns for a cross country mission to South Africa & later Vicar of Brize Norton 2005 in Pictures |
The Agreement between the Stratford City Development Partners and the London Borough of Newham is signed. This guarantees the developers will build 4,850 homes, 30 per cent of which will be affordable or key worker housing. They will put £120 million towards community benefits such as education, training and employment, health, leisure, transport and the environment. A joint venture is also set up between the LDA and Stratford City to create the Olympic Village together. The Stratford City Development Partners submit their masterplan for Zone 1 (the Town Centre District). | Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1965. Terrorist explosions occur on the London Underground network and on a London Bus. |
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| 2006 | Darren McIndoe becomes curate at St John's 2006 in Pictures |
Enabling works begin on the Stratford City site, towards the construction of Phase 1 (Town Centre Extension). | ||
| 2007 | 2007 in Pictures | The new Channel Tunnel Rail Link route becomes operative. | Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister | |
| 2008 | 2008 in Pictures | The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years, 5.2 magnitude, shakes homes across large parts of the country, particularly at the epicentre near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire. Boris Johnson unseats Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London UK house prices show their biggest annual fall since the Nationwide began its housing survey in 1991, while the US government steps in to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the country's two largest lenders Barak Obama becomes President of The United States |
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| 2009 | Darren McIndoe leaves St John's to take up the position of Associate Minister at Emmanuel, Forest Gate & later Rector of Burslem and Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. 2009 in Pictures |
Angel Cottage in Windmill Lane, one of the oldest buildings in Stratford, is illegally demolished by a property developer. | ||
| 2010 | Stratford International Station due to open but Eurostar announce that International Trains to Paris will not be stopping there. | Conservative David Cameron becomes Prime Minister in a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats | ||
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