He led them past London to Kent, presumably expecting to raise support among similarly bolshy Kentishmen. It remained there for four years, but was then taken to South Kensington. The brothers of Rochester decreed the occurrence miraculous, and buried the corpse in the Cathedral. He married a string of women at least nine to extract money from them, whatever it took. However, he was also found guilty of driving a horseless carriage, failing to have three persons in charge, and failing to display his name and address. Kitty Hawk, NC is famous for hosting the first powered flight, by the Wright brothers in 1903; but what of Bexley, Kent? Under these terms Cnut gained Mercia and payment for his army, while Edmund held Wessex. length of time. 10s. king of Kent, at this place; and though Offa gained The Brigadier described a scene of total devastation. year of king James I. bearing then the title of lord Simultaneously, his wife and child were abducted from their Herne Bay home. battles fought at Otford, one of which happened The torment of knowing until the end of his days must have been punishment enough. The source was identified as the spring at Farleigh supplying parts of Maidstone with water, which had probably been polluted by hop-pickers down from London. The gang lost around 15 men that night, including several who were later hanged at Gallows Field, Sandwich. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that the Mercians and the people of Kent fought at Otford, without giving the outcome, although it is considered significant that Kent was re-established as an independent . 12) His next successor, archbishop Cranmer, observing that this stately and the manor of Otford Stuyens, alias Sergeants Otford, with the chapel of Otford annexed to the parsonage of Shoreham, and all other his estates in Otford, It was ten years old and ten feet high, and Louis had been gifted it by the Egyptians, who were after an alliance against the Syrians. The former operated out of Dover, the latter Ramsgate. December 1703 saw the most destructive storm in English history. Within moments, two Mk.4s of 600 Squadron circling at 2,000 feet to observe the fatal accident flew into each other. lands of the Greater Park disparked soon after the grant HEREABOUTS TOOK PLACE/ ON THURSDAY THE 18TH OF JUNE A.D. 1450/ THE BATTLE OF SOLEFIELDS/ FOUGHT BETWEEN ROYALIST TROOPS UNDER/ SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD - AND MEN FROM/ KENT LED BY JACK CADE Inscription legible? chaplain, and his successors, celebrating divine offices Of the 26 buildings destroyed along with their contents, three were warehouses, four pubs, and 19 houses and shops. Though witches are associated with the Middle Ages, settling scores with an allegation of witchcraft was still commonplace in the C17; and East Kent was a hotspot of indictments. All the Germans needed was air supremacy to defend their transports from bomb and torpedo attacks; but this, according to Gring, was a formality. Field, which most probably was the spot on which the ONE OF THE FAMILY OF POLHILL gave by will, 20s. Britain, France, and Russia together would surely make light work of the Hun, and it would be over by Christmas. Arnold went to court in Tonbridge and was fined a shilling for speeding, plus nine shillings costs. which makes it far from being pleasant, and gives it a In January 1861, a minor incident led within days to a major insurrection at St Marys Island Prison in Chatham. He became a national hero, and his 21-hour 40-minute swim was commemorated with a statue at Dover. It might appear that Britain had enough on its plate in 1917, but that was precisely the time when Liberal MP Sir Alfred Mond proposed a National War Museum to celebrate Britains military achievements. of Kippington, in Sevenoke, and a fair was held at Otford on his anniversary. Being a Sheerness resident is not that different from living on the side of Vesuvius. archbishop Warham, thinking the house too mean for Then, abruptly, it was no more. On January 11th, 1947, there occurred an extraordinary episode that left people wondering what had gone right. Some of Toms followers fled, but he was left with about 40 men armed with sticks. present possessor of them. It turned into a rout. Eventually HMS Sandwich found herself isolated, and capitulated. Now, with William of Orange on the throne, it was another story. She flew to stardom at 26 by becoming the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, her first of several long-distance firsts. A turning-point occurred on March 31st, 1916, when ten German airships were forced back from London by conditions. Even before its first pit was operational, the Kent Coalfield suffered its worst accident. But for Churchills premature label, it might even have been known as the Battle of Kent. Within a fortnight of the end of the phoney war in May 1940, a crisis had turned into a calamity. The English Civil War was the outcome of unstoppable force meets immovable object. The French successfully undermined the, Whatever King Edward IIs other vices, the one that gave rise to the greatest antagonism was his indulgence of the gangster-like Despenser family. If he hoped to succeed to the family fortune, it was a clumsy way to go about it. However, a historian recently suggested that the actual cause was arson: Canterbury was in competition with Durham for pilgrims visits, so its monks were desperate to build a new shrine to the recently murdered Thomas Becket. Gillingham bus disaster: British Movietone, 1951. Both Popham and Coote, who was badly wounded, were freed soon afterwards in a prisoner exchange. The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. By the 1940s, it was tending to 2,000 patients. (Cropped). 24 were killed, and another 18 injured. rated at 10 pounds. As soon as France fell in June 1940, after just six weeks resistance to the German invasion, Churchill announced gloomily that the Battle of Britain was about to begin. granted by the archbishop to king Henry VIII. One consequence was the accelerated introduction of continuous rather than jointed track. Its value went beyond providing a wealth of leisure activities. It endured for 151 years, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries rendered it unfit for purpose. [1] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that the Mercians and the people of Kent fought at Otford, without giving the outcome, although it is considered significant that Kent was re-established as an independent kingdom after the battle. September 27th, 1940 saw the last armed confrontation between British troops and a foreign enemy on home soil. Despite the jet engine having been invented in England by Frank Whittle, Germany led the way in making jet fighters operational, its Me 262 claiming over 500 Allied aircraft. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that the Mercians and the people of Kent fought at Otford, without giving the outcome, although it is considered significant that Kent was re-established as an independent . M.P. The plane crashed at Penshurst Airfield, and all seven on board were killed. The aggrieved Margaret Thatcher insisted on a second tunnel for road traffic, but it never happened. The accident happened because a stretch of rail had been removed during engineering works on a 10-feet high viaduct. Its impact was spectacular in the English Channel, with freak waves that caused two dozen or more vessels to capsize; one passenger reported that his ship grounded five times on the seabed. In September 1174, the building was again engulfed in flames, suffering major damage. Some of the crew had been re-stowing cordite charges for the ships guns. A gale had been brewing for days, and exploded on the 7th. There was little the defenders could do except rely on the wind and weather for deterrence. It was in fact one of the bloodiest civilian incidents of the War. Its offices were wrecked by the Luftwaffe in 1942, but production that week was completed at the Kent Messengers Maidstone office. lord Amherst, baron of Holmsdale, and he is the present owner of it. Six days later, while Latham was preparing his next attempt, Louis Blriot leapfrogged him. A fair is held here on the 24th of She strangely agreed to marry Jim Mollison eight hours after meeting him, but they did set aeronautic records together before getting divorced. The Battle of Otfordwas a battle fought in 776 between Mercia, led by King Offa, and the Jutes of Kent at Otford (in what is today in the English county of Kent). Population: 3,465 (2011 Census) OS grid reference: TQ525590 . The conflagration reached Mr Saddingtons salt warehouse, where barrels of gunpowder and sulphur were stored. high steward appointed to preside over it, and it remained with the view of frank-pledge, and the courts Rumours circulated that he had honourably killed himself, and he was officially declared dead in 1999. use of himself and his successors, and it remained in NEXT to Shoreham southward lies OTFORD, Charles II. It became a symbol of Victorian greatness as iconic as Frances Eiffel Tower. If that meant murder, so be it. On May 25th, 1951, he met Burgess for a birthday celebration at his home at Tatsfield, near Westerham. were tried and determined. The technologys potential value suddenly became obvious. last-mentioned battle with the Danes was fought. Login with username, password and session length. He had it built for his daughter Eanswith at the time of her birth around 630; she may have served as its abbess, for she was later canonised despite dying at around 20. The obvious location was the site of the former Placentia Palace, close to Greenwich Park and beside the Thames not far from London. So total was the surprise that the Kings key ships were captured, along with their cannon, and Warwick was able to land his army at Sandwich. When the Catholic Princess Mary usurped the throne from Lady Jane Grey in 1553, England was divided in a way not unlike Britain today. The last and best remembered sea-battle off Sandwich occurred in 1460 during the Wars of the Roses. Simon Islip, sufficient for his accommodation, he with there is mention One went posthumously to Old Dovorian rugby international Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison, who was lost while leading an attack on the mole. A tunnel between England and France must have been mooted as soon as the land bridge connecting them was severed ten thousand years ago. When Thomas Gardiner hurt himself in a fall, Joan Walliford embarrassed him by laughing. So dramatic were these events that they inspired an anonymous 1592 play, now thought to have been written mostly by William Shakespeare himself. Under half the ships 500 crew survived, many of the dead being buried at Cheriton Road Cemetery, where a memorial now stands. The Battle of Ashingdon is also known as the Battle of Assundun, the Battle of . Only five years after the first ever powered flight, the Daily Mail offered a 500 prize to the first pilot to cross the English Channel. JOHN CHARMAN by will, gave 20s. Its publisher was James Abree, who eventually distributed it in all major Kent towns east of the, The military operation in Flanders devised by Captain Home Popham during the Revolutionary War with France was an eerie forerunner of the disastrous. The consensus was that Gods will was supreme, but there was endless dispute about the detail. acres, lying in Otford, Seal, and Kemsing; in the 15th possessed by the Cobhams of Sterborough, which he The centre of the invasion force would therefore descend upon Romney, Hythe, and Dymchurch, although it is doubtful that Hitler was a steam enthusiast. Not until 1948 was he suspected, when codebreakers got access to his likely identity; yet still he hung on. The Fifth of November was to be remembered for all the wrong reasons in 1967. The Northern Belle was a trading vessel operating out of New Orleans. What followed however was the worlds only wholly aerial battle: one that ended so ignominiously for Hitler that he abandoned his plans to conquer Britain and turned instead to the East. We can deduce that, in 449, Germanic warriors were invited in by a Brythonic overlord to assist in his war with the Scots. It caused quite a stir thereabouts. Its first TV appearance was similarly blighted. In 1119, Robert de Crvecoeur had erected a stone fortress there possibly a motte and bailey on land that had been gifted by William II to his cousin Hamo. Hence the chalk hills rise on each In the valley much of it is meadow 1070; who, when he divided the manors and possessions belonging to his church, (fn. with his army, marched after Canute, the Danish king, [2] Edmund and Cnut made peace at Alney in Gloucestershire with Cnut taking control of the area north of the Thames and the promise of a payment to his army, while Edmund held Wessex. The airships gas cylinders were then struck by anti-aircraft fire from Purfleet, and finally Kiwi pilot Alfred Brandon dropped so-called Ranken darts on the L15, bringing it down off Margate. Henceforth, English cities of high cultural value were to be targeted by the Luftwaffe, with the aim of breaking popular resolve. At last, Glatton capsized. [6] Edmund returned to London where Aethelred died on 23 April. When a constable was sent to arrest him, Tom shot him dead. 20), By virtue of the commission of enquiry into the value Six were killed. [4] Uhtred was forced to return north when Cnut began raiding his lands around Bamburgh, and was killed after submitting to Cnut. The case remains unsolved. It was therefore re-designed by Sir Christopher Wren as todays distinctive four blocks, preserving a riverine view through their middle. After the RAFs destructive and demoralising raid on Lbeck in March 1942, Hitler decided on a change of tactics. The Castle was at length returned to the de Crvecoeurs, who managed to retain it for another hundred years before the Crown pinched it for good. year of king Henry VII. 5) hold 1 suling and an By 466, the invaders were forced back to the place where theyd first entered Britain, and possibly forced to flee. Damage to shipping was particularly grievous. She never married, but accompanied her widowed mother in retirement in Brighton. The west wind blew him well off course, but he eventually spotted a signal flag being waved east of Dover Castle, and landed to a heros welcome. The temperature rose as high as 91F, which was then exceptional for that time of year. What followed was something of a replay of 1381: a march on London, initial military successes and revolutionary justice, followed however by a lack of self-restraint that alienated the locals. rout to the Isle of Shepey, and had he not desisted William of Perth in Scotland was a well-to-do baker known for his kindness. She was moored off Sheerness while being loaded with mines. 16). thirty pounds. Sheppey crossing incident: Old Bunyard, 2021. The Prince of Wales, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling all came to see it, and HG Wells based a sci-fi story on it; yet Maxim abruptly abandoned the project. the king's licence purchased lands and meadows here, After considerable experimentation, he constructed a vast aircraft with a wingspan of 104 feet, powered by two steam engines. The train behaved strangely, rolling excessively when going fast around bends. Measuring around 6.25 in magnitude, it was the consequence of a violent shift in the Hockai Fault Zone near the current border of Belgium, Germany, and Holland. Thanks for that Craggs, often it seems that on old battlefields no skeletons have survived. It was also commemorated in a 1975 folk song, and a plaque was unveiled in 2013 bearing the names of the dead. Concerning. But the little or Lesser Park, lying on the north The project came in 80% over budget, the tunnel was long underused, and it is most familiar now for problems associated with illegal immigration. If all was pre-ordained by God, where did that leave free will? Mysteriously, after the Cathedral had been entirely rebuilt in Norman style, there was a repeat a century later. His piety led him to undertake a pilgrimage to Canterbury, taking his ward with him. The international media were out in force to report on talks moved there from Londons Churchill Hotel for security reasons: a powwow between Moshe Dayan, Foreign Minister of Israel, and his Egyptian counterpart Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel. At 10.45 on the evening of Sunday, June 2nd, 1844, a policeman called Henry Wickham noticed flames in Mrs Sandfords shrimp-boiling shop in West Street, Gravesend. When the owlers resisted arrest, mortal hand-to-hand combat ensued on the shore and in the sea. What they discovered inside was horrific. king whilst he lived, and for his foul afterwards. in the chapel of Apuldrefelde, for the good state of the without issue, in 1761, devised this estate, among In May of the following year, he took delivery of a Wright Brothers biplane constructed under licence by Short Brothers in Kent. see, in the 4th year of the Conqueror's reign, anno Apart from cutting off the hands and feet of some who had agreed to leave the castle early, the King was persuaded to treat his prisoners with uncustomary clemency. He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. A search of nearby houses yielded a dead smuggler in a cottage, alongside a dying one. The train took 250 yards to stop. of Otford, the archbishop's house commonly called the Deal Castle shook so violently that it seemed in danger of collapse. Seven years later, it opened as Rosherville Gardens. On June 1st, he was confronted by a force of 4,000 New Model Army veterans under Sir Thomas Fairfax. Needless to say, Queen Mary took a very prejudicial point of view. At 6.15pm on September 16th, 1918, Commander NW Diggle was on the Dover cliffs when he heard an explosion, and saw his ship HMS Glatton on fire. Huguenot was another religious name coined as a term of derision. That demand was rebutted in 1635 by an English book, Mare Clausum (Closed Sea), to which Charles lent his weight by having this powerful ship built. The two former sold their shares to Sir The usual condemnations were issued, a solemn funeral procession took place, a commemorative bandstand was built, and the perpetrators went to ground. Amazingly, although 68 were injured, there was not a single fatality. There is no doubt about either the barbarity of his premeditated crime or his guilt. In addition to car bombs targeting commercial enterprises like shops and bars, it had a paramilitary component, specifically targeting the British Army and Police. This was a smart move, because Badlesmeres wife Margaret was known to detest her. An attempt to break it up caused the whole lot to go off. It was however more complex than it at first appeared. About 120 vessels had taken shelter in the Downs, normally a safe haven. With the first Civil War over and King Charles safely in custody, the Puritan-dominated Parliament was free to throw its ideological weight around. the church of Canterbury; part of the possessions of in his last year, rent, issuing out of certain tenements, called Le Rye, the term of thirty years, which lease was renewed He heard a noise and, looking up, saw a V-1 rocket heading his way, pursued by a Spitfire. They never reached the capital because of the weather, and two returned to base with mechanical problems. By 785, Offa was plainly the direct ruler of Kent, having subsumed it into his Mercian domain. It was first given serious consideration in 1802, when French engineer Albert Mathieu proposed a tunnel lit with oil lamps, ferrying travellers by horse-drawn carriage. Great Securitas Robbery: Old Bunyard, 2021. Also affected was New Romney, hit by an avalanche of gravel that physically moved the town a mile inland. What made matters worse was that the Metropolitan Board of Works had just pumped 75 million gallons of raw sewage into the river at that point. was taxed at 8 sulings. There would be a larger influx a century later, when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes that had halted the persecution. He was the Duke of Gloucester, uncle and protector of the boy King Henry VI. are 5 servants, and 2 mills of 24 shillings, and 28 acres Its most famous alumni are Christopher Marlowe and Sir William Harvey, although the one best known to todays pupils is probably childrens author Sir Michael Morpurgo. his wife, daughter of John Polhill, esq. and chapter of Westminster, the present lessee being Flamboyant fighter ace Leutnant Franz von Werra claimed during the Battle of Britain to have shot down a Spitfire near Rochester and destroyed eight Hurricanes, all on one day; not that the RAF knew of it. Most probably the palace was demolished, and the There were 49 fatalities, and 78 were injured. This sudden influx brought unrest over overcrowding, crime, and preferential treatment for strangers, but the Government prized the immigrants commercial worth, especially as weavers. Damage was estimated at over 10,000. The authorities laid on a grand finale, hoping for a big Christmas crowd. The archbishop himself holds Otefort in demesne. Penselwood, battle of, 1016. The aftermath was a scrapyard a mile long that took nine hours to clear. There is no point in looking up Folkestone Abbey on Tripadvisor: it ceased to exist many centuries ago. The bill was passed. It was however particularly popular, and a step down the road to The Blue Planet 105 years later. Undeniably Ebbsfleet heralded the dawn of the 400-year Kingdom of Kent. The Battle of Otford was a battle fought in 776 between the Mercians, led by Offa of Mercia, and the Jutes of Kent.The battle took place at Otford, in the modern English county of Kent.. Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. October 4th, 1624 brought a storm described as a terrible gale, the like of which has never been seen which was really saying something among a nation of seafarers. The Mayor of Canterbury arrived at the marketplace on December 25th to find few traders observing the legal injunction to work normally. From 1791, the growing threat of a French invasion demanded a detailed survey of the likely theatre of war, which in practice meant Kent. The river Darent runs through it northward, North Kent was the scene of a C16 national sensation that was not so much a murder mystery as a murder farce. Around 10.30 in the evening, a steamer ran into her. It led to the withdrawal of an entire class of locomotive. On the second, Hosidius Getas legion mounted a surprise attack. As a political entity, it made slow progress until, in 1924, Even before its first pit was operational, the, Following the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Great Britain took over administration of the subcontinent from the East India Company and appointed a viceroy. For Kent, it was fine achievement for a county that would go on to be a mainstay of naval enterprise. Location within Kent. He boarded HMS Cossack and ordered Glatton to be scuttled. The driver, John Sansom, reported afterwards that he saw nothing, but simply felt an impact. [7] Edmund would then travel to Wessex where the people submitted to him and he fought a series of inconclusive battles against the Danes and their English allies. In July 1216, he headed back east to remedy the omission. Rather unfairly, Tunbridge Wells saw an encore in 1956, when cars were almost buried in the white marbles. The battle was fought as part of a campaign by Cnut to conquer England. Whatever the true cause, Saxons will have seen it as a sign of Gods anger. It was finally rendered outmoded by improved rail travel, which opened up attractions much further afield. The Danish king Svein attacked England in 994 and returned in 1003 after the St Brice's Day massacre in 1002, when Aethelred, king of England, had many Danes living outside the Danelaw killed. A revolutionary called Basant Kumar Biswas lobbed a bomb into the howdah, killing a mahout behind and badly lacerating the viceroys back; the vicereine appeared unharmed. Ironically, John had commissioned expensive repairs not long before. It started admitting girls in the 1970s, and became fully co-educational in 1990. King Stephens forces under Gilbert de Clare laid siege to the castle. At 9.16, it derailed at 70 mph between Hither Green and Grove Park. He was only detected because a member of the public noticed a similarity in the cases of two women who had died in their bath. It started when depot manager Colin Dixon was kidnapped on the A249 near Stockbury by fake police. A mass parachute drop beyond Dover was to isolate the port, after which the ruination of battlefield Kent was assured. In 1850, just as the potato famine was easing, at least 150 Irish passengers boarded the ship heading first for Plymouth, where 14 further passengers joined. Its foundation date actually makes it the oldest continuously existing school in the world, the Kings School in Rochester (founded 604) being a relative stripling. In the late 1940s, the Gloster Meteor was the fastest aeroplane in the world; but pushing the envelope meant that its safety record was less than satisfactory. She then began obtaining chocolate creams from a local confectioner, John Maynard, and returning them after adding her own ingredient: strychnine. The Dark Ages are so called not because they were uneventful or miserable, but because they left us next to no contemporary records. Quickly! Wordsworth summed up British sentiment: Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent, Ye children of a Soil that doth advance Her haughty brow against the coast of France, Now is the time to prove your hardiment! He circulated a manifesto called The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent, airing the peoples grievances. The brainchild of martial arts expert Lee Murray-Lamrani, it was even bigger, better organised and more slickly executed than the Great Train Robbery of 1963, but like its predecessor was undone by carelessness during the money-laundering stage. A suspect in a woolly hat was seen running off. Memorials for Bostock and Brasiers; a memorial on the south According to Henry of Huntingdon, the Mercians were victorious at this battle near Sevenoaks. It flattened both the recreation centre and the adjacent accommodation block. Bodies were washed up in Thanet and Belgium. 11) They realised they needed to suspend the thread with silk to avoid contact with the ground, and so discovered the principle of insulation. It took place on Penenden Heath, north of Maidstone, and amounted to the trial of Williams rapacious half-brother Odo, who as Earl of Kent had been indicted by Archbishop Lanfranc. in the 29th year of his reign, as has been mentioned Badly beaten on London Bridge, the rebels withdrew; Cade was hunted down and slain. He was incarcerated at the RWK barracks in Maidstone, where he attempted to escape by digging a tunnel. Independence would not be restored until his death in 796. The carriage toppled over, and the hop-pickers were pitched into the foaming waters. 7) and he resided here at the time of his The Adelaide was last seen late on the Saturday evening from a lightship 15 miles north of Margate. The Battle of Brentford was fought in 1016 between invading forces of the Kingdom of Denmark under Cnut and the defending forces of the Kingdom of England led by Edmund Ironside. (Cropped). The Warren Retail Park in the west of Ashford is so mundane that it is the last place one would expect to see a cold-blooded murder. Four aircrew survived and, arming themselves with the planes machine guns, ran off after planting an explosive device. second son of Customer Smith, in whose descendants for the residence of the archbishops at it for such a On returning to Germany via South America, Spain, and Italy, he was awarded the Iron Cross. daughter of John Borret, esq. The victims, who had each paid 20,000 to get into Britain, had been flown to Belgrade from Beijing before travelling to the Dutch coast. A favoured destination was Elizabethan England, with its sympathetic Protestant work ethic. yearly, A detachment of about 100 soldiers was despatched from Canterbury to deal with the uprising. She was commissioned by King Charles I, who wished to reassert the English monarchs sovereignty over neighbouring seas as claimed by King Edgar in the C10. expence of 33,000l. 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