residence of the Petty's; several of whom lie buried in Its value went beyond providing a wealth of leisure activities. The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. They accommodated far smaller numbers of passengers and vehicles, making profitability difficult. On August 20, In retrospect, some of the IRA outrages during the Troubles defy understanding. After all, Britain ruled the waves. The obvious location was the site of the former Placentia Palace, close to Greenwich Park and beside the Thames not far from London. Renamed Curaao, she first crossed the Atlantic in April/May 1827, reaching Suriname in 28 days at a stately eight knots. There was so much concern about it that even the Queen sent a personal message of comfort. He was the Duke of Gloucester, uncle and protector of the boy King Henry VI. 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. 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. Abree took on a successor, George Kirkby, and retired in 1768, at which point James Simmons launched the rival Kentish Gazette. present owner of it. Expert opinion held that Captain John Batty had ignored the weather forecast in his anxiety to get to the Thames; and, having got stuck at low tide, the ship had been stricken by the rising waters. There might never be a problem, but if there is, it wont be trivial. On the add it to his own domains. ago, sold it to Sir Jeffry Amherst, K.B. Bodies were washed up in Thanet and Belgium. His reasoning was that all Indians must enjoy the same standard of justice as Britons, failing which their affection and allegiance could not be expected. World war resulted, costing Britain its world-power status. Detective Inspector Arthur Neil lured Smith into revealing himself, and by a clever process of investigation worked out how his victims, including a third at Herne Bay, had been killed. estate; David Polhill levied a fine of it in the 16th In 1912, it was also the birthplace of the Royal Naval Air Service, which in 1918 merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the RAF. At Margate, residents watched in amazement as the lighthouse buckled under the waves battering and disappeared. The county paid him Danegeld of 3,000 pounds of silver to go away; yet, two years later, he was back. Louis departed the scene, returning in May 1217 to renew his assault with a huge siege engine. Wreck of SS Richard Montgomery: Thames Richard Montgomery KC 7722 (Modified) (cropped) by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 3.0. The accident led to an embarrassing series of German courts martial that were intended to pin blame, and even embroiled the Kaiser. It was however the beginning of the end for him. by a branch of the Polhill family. 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. The end product, a slapdash affair, was lambasted by critics after its launch screening on Boxing Day; but the EP reached No. As the Ramsgate train had gone through two warning signals, the driver was charged with unlawful killing, but acquitted at a second trial. The accident happened because a stretch of rail had been removed during engineering works on a 10-feet high viaduct. laid into his park here, all which continued pretty entire in the crown till king Edward VI. After divorcing Jacqueline, Humphrey settled with Eleanor at, Despite being born in Sussex, Jack Cade was known as the Captain of Kent for good reason. being a most commodious and favorite retirement for A classic case concerns the battle at Ebbsfleet (Wippedesfleot), the Thanet village that shares its name with Gravesends railway station. Moments later, a second wave lifted him, the sole survivor, onto a lifeboat. It transpired that another River Class engine had derailed and miraculously re-railed, though tests showed that it ran normally on a good line. A month later, Britain sued for peace. The hitmen fled, but Arden and Mosby were tried and sentenced to death. The last and best remembered sea-battle off Sandwich occurred in 1460 during the Wars of the Roses. The Aero Club soon moved to Eastchurch, so Sheppey remained Britains civil aviation capital. Rebels released radical preacher John Ball from Maidstone Gaol and marched on Rochester Castle, successfully freeing Belling. Sadly, his attempt 10 years later to swim across Niagara Falls proved one feat too many. It was therefore re-designed by Sir Christopher Wren as todays distinctive four blocks, preserving a riverine view through their middle. When the Catholic Princess Mary usurped the throne from Lady Jane Grey in 1553, England was divided in a way not unlike Britain today. This Cornishman was a maltster who had spent four years in Barming Heath Asylum. had thus come into the king's possessions, he kept the The Celts retreated to the Thames, but were only delaying the inevitable. whilst at it; among others, that the archbishop finding The fire was blamed on cinders drifting across from blazing cottages nearby. North Kent was the scene of a C16 national sensation that was not so much a murder mystery as a murder farce. Several people fell ill, and one child died; but the cause remained unknown. So, when the Government ordered a new first-rater in 1758, it was a big deal. Investigations revealed that the offending steamer was the Murillo, a Spanish ship. called in Saxon, OTTANFORD, in the book of Domesday, OTEFORT, and in the Textus Roffensis, OTTEFORD; for it is observable, that the syllable an, when It only recovered when the growth of the Royal Dockyard added so much to the value of the Hospitals lands that the Crown even tried to sequestrate them. Their first raid on England was conducted on May 25th, 1916, when 23 Gotha G.IV bombers set off to bomb London. heir, Catherine, married Mr. Waring, and had by him Being a Sheerness resident is not that different from living on the side of Vesuvius. Thomas Farnaby, bart. Not that the numerous Kentish spectators minded: they joyfully plundered grounded Spanish vessels. 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. In the era of sail, it was customary for warships to form a line that fired on the enemy passing in the opposite direction. [3], Cnut, possibly now claiming the title king of Denmark, appeared at Sandwich in September 1015 and ravaged Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. Reaction began in the Elham area, when a threshing machine was wrecked one Saturday night in August, 1830. Afterwards there emerged a scene of destruction whose like would not be seen again until the Blitz. Two years later, however, the appeasers had their way. It led to the withdrawal of an entire class of locomotive. No one had been hurt, and the process of clearing up commenced. It nearly proved its worth in a practical way on March 17th, 1899, when a ship making for Hamburg, the Elbe, ran aground, and the Lightship sent the worlds first emergency message. Reformation theologians generally went along with Catholicism on this; but a major challenge was presented by the Freewillers. The curate of this church, in 1719, had a stipend (fn. within these parks of Otford. The governor sent in a posse of 150 officers to restore order and place the ringleaders in punishment cells. 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. The Polhills afterwards became owners of this The liner Princess Irene had been requisitioned at her launch the previous October as a minelayer. Thanks for that Craggs, often it seems that on old battlefields no skeletons have survived. As the danger to himself subsided, however, he grew keen to build bridges. The invaders were routed, and Eustace was beheaded on deck. The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. The first in Kent was the Kentish Post. whole of it, excepting the hall and the chapel, at the As that happened in France, he planned an encore in England at this, the only viable civilian site. In September 1897, the county town was struck by Britains worst-ever outbreak of typhoid. 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. Her death sentence was commuted to life in Broadmoor. In the south chancel, a memorial On September 29, The Kentish rebellion of Spring 1648 went further than football. The blast left a 20-feet crater 40 yards wide. This was a so-called Liberty ship one built for Britain in the USA during WW2 that the Americans had cheekily named after one of their Revolutionary War heroes. half, and there they have in demesne 3 carucates, and 16 22). Not everything could be made good with money, however. The source of the uncertainty is the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, 1 miles offshore. side of this parish, and parted on the west side by the conveyed to that king a messuage, called BROUGHTON'S, and other premises in Otford, in exchange for (fn. On September 29th, three were hanged at Faversham; Harriss fate is unknown. Consequently, many Kentish people were unaware of it until the morning, when they encountered fallen trees across roads or arrived at railway stations to find all services cancelled. It contained a party of 60 Chinese men and women, all but two of whom were dead. It prompted the German governments prolonged reluctance to invest in new warships. Margaret surrendered after a fortnight and became the first woman to be imprisoned in the Tower. He was proclaimed King of England by his supporters, and went off to suppress much of the South, while John skulked in the West. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. 10). Astonishingly, when he told MI6 that he had changed his views, he was believed and enrolled as a British spy. When Thomas Gardiner hurt himself in a fall, Joan Walliford embarrassed him by laughing. (fn. Although some Spanish ships got through, about 40 were sunk and 7,000 men killed. Some diehards held out in Essex, but it was curtains for King Charles: he was beheaded in January. the Skinners company, now of the annual produce of 5l. Canterbury, and consequently in that deanry. Edmund 'Ironside' recreation of 2nd Battle of Otford (1016) fame. War was duly declared, and the 3rd Dutch War proved another calamity. of king Richard III. Otford. Damage was estimated at over 10,000. to their being surveyed, and sold to supply the necessities of the state. Here is a newspaper article from 1835 about the site of the battle and remains being found. Four years later, work began on the first iron pier. On January 12th, 1950, there was another fatal collision in Kents busy waters, this one leading to a change in nautical regulations. Cities all over England were targeted, so it was inevitable that Canterbury would be among them. Wyatts 4,000-strong force was nevertheless repulsed at Southwark by London loyalists, and instead crossed the Thames at Kingston. Greatness farms, containing about eight hundred and An orderly noticed that a fire had been started by a clothes iron that had been left on, and at 6.40 am alerted the Fire Brigade. It followed hard upon another mutiny concerning pay and conditions at Spithead, off Portsmouth. Following a failed attempt, he departed from Dovers Admiralty Pier on August 24th, 1875, covered in porpoise oil and accompanied by three boats. Penselwood, battle of, 1016. [2] When Edmund died on 30 November 1016 Cnut gained the whole kingdom. and Jane, of Otford, obt. This now world-famous tale has inevitably provoked cynical speculation that it was cooked up by prelates seeking a lucrative competitor to Beckets shrine at Canterbury. lionel richie lytham st annes. The consequences were shocking. Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. Now armed with a pretext, the King had Badlesmere executed, and crushed the rebels in battle. Smith was found guilty of murder, and hanged by John Ellis inside Maidstone Prison on August 13th, 1915. It was however more complex than it at first appeared. 5) hold 1 suling and an Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. More stayed in Dover, but most moved on to Canterbury, which acquired the largest foreign population outside London. use of himself and his successors, and it remained in It was however particularly popular, and a step down the road to The Blue Planet 105 years later. Leeds Castle, east of Maidstone, looks so tranquil that it is hard to imagine serious conflict there. His force at Maidstone amounted to 10,000 volunteers; but he made the mistake of sending the majority to defend other towns. Otford is a village in Kent, England, located on the River Darent, 3 miles north of Sevenoaks. (fn. Though most of England had given up, the young new king took the battle to the Danes. The Maidstone Typhoid Epidemic was national news for months: nearly 2,000 were infected, and at least 132 died. On the night of February 21st, 2006, the Securitas depot in Tonbridge saw the worlds largest ever civilian heist. 115 of Cootes men were killed in frantic fighting, and 1,134 taken prisoner. Experiments at Lydd in 1886 evaluated the use of balloons for observing artillery fire, and land was hired at Lidsing for training camps. So dramatic were these events that they inspired an anonymous 1592 play, now thought to have been written mostly by William Shakespeare himself. anno 1300, (fn. Parliament responded prudently by striking an alliance with the Dutch and Sweden to counter French aggression. Glynd, in Sussex; secondly Gertrude, sister of Thomas Holles, Few Woolwich residents can have lamented the demise of their council, which by then had been subsumed into the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Deal Castle shook so violently that it seemed in danger of collapse. In these situations, a mysterious fire normally comes into play, but this case was different. 1727. The first grammar school in Kent, it set a precedent for the likes of Dartford Grammar School (1576), Norton Knatchbull School (1630), and the Harvey Grammar School (1674), making Kent a grammar-school hotbed. She then began obtaining chocolate creams from a local confectioner, John Maynard, and returning them after adding her own ingredient: strychnine. He showed eight clips, one of which was Rough Sea at Dover. Realising that a public demonstration was vital, he turned his attention to Dover. of the same will to Thomas Lane, esq. The Nore is an anchorage off Sheerness that gave its name to an infamous mutiny. Their four armies were to converge on London from Kent, Devon, Herefordshire, and Leicestershire respectively. rent, issuing out of certain tenements, called Le Rye, Because the Wright brothers wished to get their Flyers manufactured in Britain, an agent identified a former golf-course south of Leysdown where they could safely be tested; the Aero Club established its clubhouse there early in 1909. The whole east coast of Britain was affected, with 326 deaths caused by flooding. It was finally rendered outmoded by improved rail travel, which opened up attractions much further afield. The Gazette took over several Kent County Newspapers titles. It was opened in 1692 at the behest of Queen Mary II, who liked the idea of a naval equivalent of the Chelsea Hospital for soldiers. extensive woods, and other lands for their pleasure and The Dark Ages are so called not because they were uneventful or miserable, but because they left us next to no contemporary records. In between, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle gives us tantalising evidence of a battle at Otford in which the Kentishmen took on their mighty opponent. It has been for some years possessed by the family 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. Vowing to fly his Imperial Eagle over the Tower of London, Boney terrifyingly amassed an army of 100,000 at Boulogne. Six months after the HMS Bulwark disaster, a near carbon-copy occurred. Though most of England had given up, the young new king took the battle to the Danes. No risks were taken, and all River Class engines were withdrawn until they had been rebuilt to a new design. At 7.45am, when they were called to breakfast, several charges were left temporarily beside a bulkhead. 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In June 1450 Henry sent soldiers led by Sir Humphry Stafford to put down the revolt. It lies for the greatest part of it in a low damp situation, His incendiary rhetoric drew a gang of supporters who followed him on foot. The train took 250 yards to stop. 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. without issue, in 1761, devised this estate, among There was great enthusiasm for going to war in August 1914. and supreme sovereignty, the other between the Danes The military operation in Flanders devised by Captain Home Popham during the Revolutionary War with France was an eerie forerunner of the disastrous Zeebrugge Raid of 1918. Six months later, he was killed in a training accident. 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. and Saxons, for their lands, lives, and liberties. Huguenot was another religious name coined as a term of derision. From his base at Manston, Group Captain Hugh Wilson flew a Meteor Mk.4, the EE454 Britannia, four times over a course between Herne Bay pier and Reculver Point. He had in mind a full-scale invasion. 3) soon after which one Werhard, a powerful priest, and kinsman to archbishop Wlfred, found it would have been but little known had it not been The Captain of HMS Haslemere leapt in to save her, but himself froze to death. Paul McCartney decided they needed a new project quickly, and so the Magical Mystery Tour movie was born. of a lady, in profile, with figures of statuary marble on each side, Regrettably, the importance of his work was not fully appreciated before others muscled in. One went posthumously to Old Dovorian rugby international Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison, who was lost while leading an attack on the mole. Wishing to experiment further, he involved his friend Reverend Granville Wheler while visiting Otterden Place in June 1729. The British Expeditionary Force was trapped along with the remains of the French Army on the coast around Dunkirk, and in danger of being obliterated. Popular reaction was predictably hostile, especially in Kent. Whatever the true cause, Saxons will have seen it as a sign of Gods anger. On Friday, September 22nd, 1989, a 15-pound time-bomb went off at 8.22am in the Royal Marines depot in Deal. the king's licence purchased lands and meadows here, As soon as France fell in June 1940, after just six weeks resistance to the German invasion, Flamboyant fighter ace Leutnant Franz von Werra claimed during the, A Yorkshire lass, Amy Johnson had it all: brains, looks, charm, skill, and guts. The trouble was that, though faster and more frequent than ferries, even the advanced SR.N4 hovercraft were none too practicable. Its founder was Eadbald, King of Kent, and son of King Aethelberht I and Queen Bertha. 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. both sides. It was not long before reality intruded. [9], In 1017 Cnut married Aethelred's widow, Emma of Normandy. The case emphasised the importance of making the new Automatic Warning System generally available. king of Kent, at this place; and though Offa gained Following the Roman invasion under Aulus Plautius, the native Britons under Caratacus and Togodumnus were beaten in two skirmishes in East Kent, and retreated to the Medway somewhere between Aylesford and Rochester. They cost Germany a huge amount in manpower, materials and fuel that would have better been put into the Third Reichs defence of its Eastern Front. What they discovered inside was horrific. The Callis Court gang was a notorious band of smugglers. It was not the first ever maritime footage: one of the Lumires ten clips, La Mer, was a film of Frenchmen jumping off a jetty. anno 1313, (fn. El & Humph were the C15 supercouple. of Otford, he died 1719, On October 21st, 1639, a sea-battle took place in Kentish waters between two alien powers. In 1878, Captain James Templer from Greenwich set up and then commanded a School of Ballooning at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. The king did eventually relent, whilst acknowledging Kentish loyalty by building the historic Placentia Palace at Greenwich. The HMS Bulwark disaster, a second wave lifted him, the had. Far smaller numbers of passengers and vehicles, making profitability difficult of Gods anger launch previous. 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