The Viking presence in England continued and in 1013 Svein, accompanied by his younger son Cnut, was accepted as king. It They had left it late in the film production season; so, after spending a week on location in Devon, they turned to West Malling aerodrome to get the rest shot. Eight months after the collision, she was stopped off Dover and confiscated. The 2nd Dutch War had ended badly for Britain, not least because of the Kings financial mismanagement. One year later, Napoleon envisaged a martial use: marching his army of invasion across the Channel. conveyed to that king a messuage, called BROUGHTON'S, and other premises in Otford, in exchange for In March 1642, with hostilities looming, an initiative arose from Maidstone Assizes. Whole sections had to be rebuilt, this time in gothic style; the discontinuity is easily spotted today. It was reported that she ran out of fuel, but half a century later a British gunner claimed she had been shot down after twice giving the wrong password. daughter of lord St. John, obt 1625; arms, a pheon; memorials The centre of the invasion force would therefore descend upon Romney, Hythe, and Dymchurch, although it is doubtful that Hitler was a steam enthusiast. When he urged revellers to get to work, he got a surly reaction that turned to pushing and shoving. 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. lord Amherst, baron of Holmsdale, and he is the present owner of it. The police revealed that the 40-year-old Decabral, from Pluckley, had had a long association with drugs, smuggling, and firearms, so the killing might have been linked to organised crime. All were taken to the depot, where a multi-national gang armed with AK-47s was waiting. On December 23rd, 1912, Hardinge and his wife Winifred were riding an elephant near the Red Fort in Delhi to celebrate the transfer of the capital from Calcutta. 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.. Memorials for Bostock and Brasiers; a memorial on the south Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. There might never be a problem, but if there is, it wont be trivial. In the east window is a shield of arms, Lennard, in Four aircrew survived and, arming themselves with the planes machine guns, ran off after planting an explosive device. whilst at it; among others, that the archbishop finding On August 18th, a brand-new Air Union Blriot 155 was travelling from Le Bourget to Croydon with two crew and 13 passengers when an engine failed. second son of Customer Smith, in whose descendants He seemed the model of respectability in John Majors government, until he was accused by Granadas World in Action of involvement in an arms deal. He was the Duke of Gloucester, uncle and protector of the boy King Henry VI. A gale had been brewing for days, and exploded on the 7th. He circulated a manifesto called The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent, airing the peoples grievances. The aftermath was a scrapyard a mile long that took nine hours to clear. His force at Maidstone amounted to 10,000 volunteers; but he made the mistake of sending the majority to defend other towns. passed an ordinance to vest them in trustees, in order acres, lying in Otford, Seal, and Kemsing; in the 15th Amid foul weather and poor visibility, the pilot attempted an emergency landing near Aldington, but hit a barn; he and two of the 13 passengers died. As the danger to himself subsided, however, he grew keen to build bridges. The American hybrid SS Savannah had already made the crossing in 1819, but that was largely under sail, whereas Curaaos engines were used for at least 11 days, and at least 22 on the return journey. Wreck of SS Richard Montgomery: Thames Richard Montgomery KC 7722 (Modified) (cropped) by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 3.0. 7) and he resided here at the time of his the house wanted a fit spring to water it, stuck his It led to the withdrawal of an entire class of locomotive. The Gardens were originally targeted at the gentry, but thrived when the price was dropped and the offering moved downmarket. 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. Consequently, a wooden jetty was erected in 1824; but it was wrecked by a storm in 1851. Also affected was New Romney, hit by an avalanche of gravel that physically moved the town a mile inland. see, in the 4th year of the Conqueror's reign, anno Arriving out of the blue, they met with complete success: 95 men were killed, and 195 injured. Having already made himself a hero in Kent by clearing the coast of pirates, he picked up many extra recruits on his way through Canterbury and Wickhambreaux. On October 21st, 1639, a sea-battle took place in Kentish waters between two alien powers. Though slow, this still cut 12 days off the journey by sail. With pewter falling off shelves in homes all over, there was widespread terror. in the The beautiful 17-acre site amounted to a Victorian theme park, offering a top leisure experience even without the benefit of technology. One that took place at Staplehurst on June 9th, 1865 took on a particular significance because of one noteworthy passenger on board: Charles Dickens. If he hoped to succeed to the family fortune, it was a clumsy way to go about it. and several tales are told of the miracles he wrought There was much wisdom after the event, with pundits especially blaming insufficient testing. The Indemnity & Oblivion Act pardoned most conspirators, but for 104 Regicides there was to be no amnesty. However, the Government overconfidently sent warships elsewhere, allowing Tromp to win a major victory off Dungeness in November. In consequence of which Hertfordshire. [2] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes Edmund as raising an army from "the entire English nation". Three rebels were arrested and executed. The foundation of the Kings School, Canterbury (597), fully co-educational in 1990. of it, the king's licence to assign four marcs yearly Some even thought him a madman. of rebuilt great part of this 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. Luckily, his son Edmund Ironside was made of sterner stuff. All the Germans needed was air supremacy to defend their transports from bomb and torpedo attacks; but this, according to Gring, was a formality. king of Kent, at this place; and though Offa gained 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.. The other battle was fought in 1016, when king Unfortunately, on the other side of that bulkhead, a boiler was heating up. It was not until the Sunday morning that the wrecked hull and paddles were sighted on Tongue Sands. the term of thirty years, which lease was renewed Margaret surrendered after a fortnight and became the first woman to be imprisoned in the Tower. As police suspicion grew, she sent herself parcels in the hope of incriminating Maynard. The last Kent mine closed in 1989. When King Sweyn died after just months on the English throne, his son Cnut was quickly driven out. The Church reacted in the normal manner of centralised authority, by declaring this challenger a devil and his followers idiots. When the boy resisted, Bird gruesomely cut his throat. Not until 1948 was he suspected, when codebreakers got access to his likely identity; yet still he hung on. Hence the chalk hills rise on each It started at the yard of Charles Hoult, a mast and block maker, and spread rapidly. It lies on the River Darent, 3 miles (5 km) north of Sevenoaks. Before long, Kirkby was obliged to merge the Post into the new title, which has continued to serve Canterbury as a weekly until the present day. There is wood for the pannage of The following year, however, he won an important victory over his main rival, Wessex, and was again able to turn the screw on Kent. Their magnum opus Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was complete, and manager Brian Epstein had just died. 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. In her hold are 286 2,000-pound bombs, 4,439 1,000-pounders and nearly 5,000 others that salvage experts could not remove. Following the Royalists crucial defeat at Maidstone in 1648, the position of Clerk of the Court at the Kings trial months later was aptly filled by Andrew Broughton, the towns Rutland-born mayor. The attractions included an Italian garden, cavern, tunnels, hermit cave, Greek temples, lake, and even a bear pit. He woke at sunrise to find his younger son Freeman at his bedside. Mysteriously, after the, The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. On June 1st, he was confronted by a force of 4,000 New Model Army veterans under Sir Thomas Fairfax. Though Maidstone Hospital shouldered some of the load, the burden of care and supervision of the mentally ill fell mostly on families and GPs, who continue to bear it today. The dagger was still in his pocket, but he declared, I have done enough! and the old man survived. His force at Maidstone amounted to 10,000 volunteers; but he made the mistake of sending the majority to defend other towns. their arms, Argent, a chevron sable, between three She had a comfortable upbringing, though mental illness on both sides of her family perhaps accounted for her diagnosis of hysteria around 1850. The Battle of Ashingdon is also known as the Battle of Assundun, the Battle of Assingdon, the Battle of Assandun and the Battle of Assendun. Great South-Eastern Flood: Kent Cinque Ports by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 2.5. The local disturbance was so strong that entire buildings fell down, including churches. All either confessed to having had the devil appear to them in the form of a cat or, would you believe, a hedgehog. 1755; he married Martha, daughter of Captain Matthew Webb from Shropshire was a natural born swimmer. As the Ramsgate train had gone through two warning signals, the driver was charged with unlawful killing, but acquitted at a second trial. More stayed in Dover, but most moved on to Canterbury, which acquired the largest foreign population outside London. Initial experiments were undertaken with a balloon hired from the outstanding Wouldham-born balloonist Henry Coxwell. Marching from Dover to London in October 1215, King John found his path blocked by Rochester Castle, which controlled the river crossing. lonely and gloomy appearance, and in all probability The temperature rose as high as 91F, which was then exceptional for that time of year. The following day, they ran the thread from the houses tower to the garden, and finally across 800 feet of paddock. Unfortunately, it was unable to withstand the depredations of Danish Vikings, and what remained of it eventually fell into the sea. in order to be inclosed with other lands by the archbishop, and for another park to be made here, since 150 hogs. Needless to say, the effect was devastating. The engine struck it and turned sideways, causing the following carriages to pile into it. side, a magnificent monument, with the statue of a gentleman, as The church, which is situated at the east end of Because the Normans were outnumbered by about a thousand to one in their new land, he made liberal use of castle-building to overawe and oppress the populace. 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). esq. In an effort to stop German U-boats using Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium, the Royal Navy attempted to scuttle three blockships in its entrance. US President Franklin struck medals, and sent donatives for the rescuers families. 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? Then, abruptly, it was no more. to his son, Sir Robert Sidney, the scite of the honour A war followed, with landmark battles probably at Aylesford (455) and Crayford (457). King John abandoned the county to its fate, and Louis marched unopposed to the capital. Apart from pillaging and burning down the town, they murdered John Drury, the mayor a deed commemorated in the town mayors black robe today. Many men survived the impact, but soon died in the freezing cold; 64 were lost, and only 15 rescued. he entertained that splendid prince king Henry VIII. All either confessed to having had the devil appear to them in the form of a cat or, would you believe, a hedgehog. As they passed the swimming baths, a bus came up behind them with only its sidelights on. There is no record of a tsunami, but the quake is estimated to have been in the region of 6 to 6.5 on the Richter scale. A BOAC Douglas C-47 piloted by Captain IR Goalen took off on its way to West Africa. Six were killed. the Skinners company, now of the annual produce of 5l. Eleanor was accused of witchcraft after being told by three astrologers that the King would soon die. The change was occasioned by the death of King Aethelberht II in 762. When Svein died in 1014 he was succeeded by his son Harald as king of Denmark, but his army in England accepted Cnut as king. What changed things was the Battle of Waterloo. A statue was erected at Dover to mark his achievement. This was hardly surprising, as temperatures that day had reached 90F, and they had been inside for 18 hours. laid into his park here, all which continued pretty entire in the crown till king Edward VI. He boarded HMS Cossack and ordered Glatton to be scuttled. The rail crash that occurred on Wednesday, August 24th, 1927 was not just fatal. residence of the Petty's; several of whom lie buried in It was not quite the worst such calamity in Britain: in 1997, 160 vehicles were caught up in a fatal pile-up on the M42. The accident led to an embarrassing series of German courts martial that were intended to pin blame, and even embroiled the Kaiser. It transpired that the water had escaped from an adjacent abandoned shaft. Work did once start at the Kentish end, but it was just a gesture. ONE OF THE FAMILY OF POLHILL gave by will, 20s. The returning bombers were engaged off Belgium by nine Sopwith pups of the Royal Naval Air Service, who managed to shoot down just one. Lake, esq. rent, issuing out of certain tenements, called Le Rye, She then began obtaining chocolate creams from a local confectioner, John Maynard, and returning them after adding her own ingredient: strychnine. [5][7] London also came to a settlement with Cnut, providing payment and winter quarters. 115 men and boys were killed; seven could not be found, having been vaporised. It turned out that there had been murder above bloody murder. pounds; what Richard de Tonbridge holds in his lowy is He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. On the evening of October 20th, 1853, a party of 37 Irish and Romany hop-pickers were returning to their camp on the back of a horse-drawn waggon. It appeared that cinders raked from the furnace had not been extinguished. being a most commodious and favorite retirement for which makes it far from being pleasant, and gives it a Parliament reacted with the same outrage as the last time, denouncing their insolence and gaoling them. Dickens actually tended the victims, some of whom died in his presence. It was not until March 1895 that the Lumire brothers presented their cinmatographe in Paris. King William Is invasion in 1066 was a historic slice of opportunism consolidated by unparalleled brutality. It all went awry when the wind changed direction, so the vital smokescreen was not forthcoming. That same year, a storm further east caused the death of 50,000 in Holland. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. of Otford, to Sir Anthony Denny, to hold in capite Ten buildings had been destroyed, along with 30 vehicles. He spent decades leaking secrets to the Soviets, even during WW2 when the USSR was Britains ally. IRA bomb outrage, Deal: Old Bunyard, 2020. By then, future Transport Minister John Moore-Brabazon had become the first Briton to make a powered flight, five years after the Wrights. taken down. Canterbury; (fn. Although it won its signatories the Nobel Peace Prize, the pact was fiercely resented in the Arab world, and before long cost the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat his life. In a matter of a fortnight, however, spring was bypassed and high summer arrived early. The first battle on British soil recorded in history took place in Kent. When the quake started, the skeletons hanging in their laboratory suddenly sprang to life, causing them to run for their lives. As if the 1929 Gillingham Park fire disaster had not been enough, the town suffered another such calamity in 1951. She was seen parachuting into the heavy sea off Herne Bay. Like Hengist before him, he had arrived as a mercenary, but now had an appetite for conquest. leads from Eynsford, through Otford, to Sevenoke, Its founder was Eadbald, King of Kent, and son of King Aethelberht I and Queen Bertha. Following the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Great Britain took over administration of the subcontinent from the East India Company and appointed a viceroy. Cnut would gain the whole of England after Edmund's death on 30 November 1016. But the former in that year He set up a dealership in London selling fashionable Benz cars under his own Arnold brand. The first occasion was in the C12, when King Stephen seized the throne. three wives, first Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Trevor, esq. In October the previous year, King Henry VI had won a walkover at Ludford Bridge, resulting in the flight of the Earl of Warwick and the future King Edward IV to Calais. of them to Sir Thomas Smith. means to gain the possession of it; but, at the command of the archbishop in 830, he by his last will, restored this place, then estimated at ten hides, again to When a detachment of soldiers approached the rebels in a clearing, Tom shot their lieutenant. Maidstone too came in for rather pointless punishment. Other ships flashed a warning, but were ignored because Captain Wilkie was asleep. They didnt always get their own way, however. which the family of Bosville had the see of this estate, in which name it continued down to Henry 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. Although it was magnificent, Blriots cross-Channel flight in 1909 was a blow to British national pride, since it handed leadership in world aviation to the French. No risks were taken, and all River Class engines were withdrawn until they had been rebuilt to a new design. 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. Meanwhile, the tender and a carriage of the Ramsgate train concertinaed into a railway bridge, which collapsed on top. In its crudest version, the invaders were chased out of Kent by a mob bearing staves. Through his sister Henrietta, he initiated secret talks with her brother-in-law, King Louis XIV the despotic Sun King. It followed hard upon another mutiny concerning pay and conditions at Spithead, off Portsmouth. Wheler reported the ground-breaking results to the Royal Society, which awarded Gray its first Copley Medal. Huguenot was another religious name coined as a term of derision. After Usborne and Squadron Commander De Courcy Ireland had ascended to 4,000 feet, intending to launch the plane, the airship unaccountably flexed, causing the aircraft to become partially detached. (Cropped). [4] Uhtred was forced to return north when Cnut began raiding his lands around Bamburgh, and was killed after submitting to Cnut. Of the millions of hours of film ever made, the very first, in 1878, was Eadweard Muybridges short loop showing a horse galloping. 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. They eventually turned on him and sought to take possession of Kent. On the night of February 21st, 2006, the Securitas depot in Tonbridge saw the worlds largest ever civilian heist. them; adjoining to which they had two large parks, 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. After retreating to London to regroup, Louis sent for a supply fleet from France. there is mention Damage to shipping was particularly grievous. The first away was Hubert Latham, who got within six miles of the English coast when he was obliged to ditch in the sea. When the Armys conflicting requirements were hived off to the Royal Engineers at Chatham, the RFC set up its own Wireless Testing Park at the Joyce Green airfield near Dartford. After Margaret Thatcher returned to power in 1983 with a landslide, the hard left reverted to its 1970s strategy of causing economic disruption by industrial action. Fortunately, local boatmen were able to save all but seven of Britannias crew, and most of Admiral Gardners. The government side was routed, and Stafford was killed in the battle. Although appliances turned up within four minutes, a blaze had taken hold, and it was not until 7.30 am that it was brought under control. The arable land is 42 carucates; in demesne there are 6 carucates. He was executed at Penenden Heath on August 15th and buried at Bearsted, while old Sondes found himself heirless. Numerous ships were wrecked, mostly with all hands: HMS Restoration (387 lost), HMS Northumberland (220), HMS Stirling Castle (206), and HMS Mary (268) among many others. Ships were torn from their anchorages and tossed around like toys, crashing into each other with calamitous effect, and no hope of rescue. Although some Spanish ships got through, about 40 were sunk and 7,000 men killed. Ironically, the Kentish mines, which only started operating in 1912, had never been profitable, yet local union leaders refused to capitulate unless sacked workers were reinstated. Penselwood, battle of, 1016. chapel to Shoreham, is a peculiar of the archbishop of This sect was centred on Pluckley and Smarden, where the cloth trade probably brought the community into contact with radical Protestant ideas from the Low Countries. As if accidental explosions at sea werent enough, WW1 also saw the worst-ever accident in the British explosives industry. It was in fact one of the bloodiest civilian incidents of the War. Convicted of treason, the three were executed, and she was made to do a harlots public penance before being jailed for life. By then, with the propeller broken and the ship taking on water, the order had been given to abandon ship; but most of the lifeboats were lost in the gale. In 1960, the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich pioneered a futuristic new vision for municipal car-parking. He had however omitted one decisive factor from his calculations: a few men and women dressed in blue uniforms. The event that brought him fame (or infamy) occurred when he conducted a robbery at Gads Hill, Rochester. length of time. It showed 17 seconds of waves crashing against the Admiralty Pier. At least it raised a cheer in the fundraising Irish nationalist bars of New York, Chicago, and Boston. (fn. JOHN CHARMAN by will, gave 20s.

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