There might never be a problem, but if there is, it wont be trivial. 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. 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. Arriving out of the blue, they met with complete success: 95 men were killed, and 195 injured. Despite his best efforts, including lighting a fire in a mine that collapsed a corner of the keep, he could not break the defenders resistance. Towards Sevenoke the soil becomes palmers scrips or purses of the second, stringed and tasselled or, One of this family, John Palmer, died possessed of 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 years by a branch of the family of Petley, and another She set off for London at 3.30am on Friday, March 29th. Around midnight, a Dutch truck that had arrived from Zeebrugge was taken aside for investigation by customs officials. The river Darent runs through it northward, When Henry VII sought to raise funding for Englands defences against threatened invasions by both the Scots and the pretender Perkin Warbeck, a 15,000-strong peasant army was raised in Cornwall, and marched on London. half, and there they have in demesne 3 carucates, and 16 The ship drifted onto the Nore sandbank, and broke her back. Five of the gang who escaped the beach were met at the top by a mounted officer, whom they shot dead. to be delivered to them weekly, to be paid out of land, vested in Early on January 5th, 1857, while heading for London from New York with a cargo of wheat and flour, she anchored off Kingsgate Bay in a storm. which he pursued them as far as Aylesford, in their (fn. Dover and Canterbury fell without a fight. Otford, lately disparked, and his lands, meadows, &c. of it, the king's licence to assign four marcs yearly Their trial consisted in being dunked in the river. The next day, they slipped away to Southampton en route to Russia, where they spent the rest of their lives. The driver, John Sansom, reported afterwards that he saw nothing, but simply felt an impact. Poignantly, the accident occurred only a mile or two from the site of the Lewisham rail crash ten years earlier. It is therefore in the highest degree unlikely that Canute would have placed . They set off at 9 am on January 7th, 1785 in the expectation of arriving safely in Calais 150 minutes later. Ironically, John had commissioned expensive repairs not long before. Under half the ships 500 crew survived, many of the dead being buried at Cheriton Road Cemetery, where a memorial now stands. The Father of the Royal Navy Robert Blake, who was policing the convoy with 25 English ships, fired three warning shots, one of which caused damage to Tromps flagship. Along with fellow Cantabrigians Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross, he formed a fifth column that cost countless British agents their lives. Many entertainments were staged there, including dances, live performances, and firework displays. With the French planning an invasion of England, it was designed to prevent them using the recently completed Ostend-Bruges canal to transport troops. His plan was simple: to take off from Swingate aerodrome, less than a mile from where Blriot had landed, fly to Sangatte, turn round, and come back to his start point. 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. On August 24th, de Burgh led the English fleet, using a battle-plan worthy of Nelson. and a fair was held at Otford on his anniversary. The Faversham witch trial of 1645 exposed the absurdity of charges brought as a means of silencing unwelcome women; but it was not exceptional. at Otford, wherein actions not above forty shillings The first looked a good draw, the convicted felon being a boy. Nevertheless, months before the blaze, British footballers had refused to kowtow to fascism as a condition of competing at the Berlin Olympics. 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. manoeuvres that ended in the battle of Otford. expence of 33,000l. Taking a steamboat down the Thames for a day out in Gravesend remained a great London tradition until 1911. Its epicentre was not off the North Foreland but on the coast of France, near Calais. As the danger to himself subsided, however, he grew keen to build bridges. All either confessed to having had the devil appear to them in the form of a cat or, would you believe, a hedgehog. It did not start a war, however, but ended one. A man at Warren Street was nearly decapitated by a flying corrugated roof. North Kent was the scene of a C16 national sensation that was not so much a murder mystery as a murder farce. Britannia, built in 1806, made just one voyage to China and India. By the middle of the C9, the threat from the East presented by red-bearded men in longboats was serious, and incessant. At last, Glatton capsized. Known to the Anglo-Saxons as Ottansford, meaning "ford of Otta", Otford was home to a Roman villa which was abandoned during the 4th century AD, and it was the site of the 776 Battle of Otford between King Offa of Mercia and the army of Kent, as well as a 1016 battle betweeen Edmund Ironside and the . As if the 1929 Gillingham Park fire disaster had not been enough, the town suffered another such calamity in 1951. Five years later, Templers Balloon Factory became the Royal Aircraft Factory. She then began obtaining chocolate creams from a local confectioner, John Maynard, and returning them after adding her own ingredient: strychnine. Battle of the Medway: John Fawkes, 2020 from BritishBattles.com. When the people of Brentwood in Essex refused to pay, there was open unrest, prompting a general insurgency across the South-East. Though most of England had given up, the young new king took the battle to the Danes. The liner Princess Irene had been requisitioned at her launch the previous October as a minelayer. owner of some part of the lands formerly inclosed with quarterings, in the middle a mullet for difference. In return he agreed, unbelievably, to convert to Catholicism, and join the French in waging war on Britains allies, the Dutch. Though crushed, Kents rebellion paved the way for the Wars of the Roses five years later. of Otford, son of John Its founder was Eadbald, King of Kent, and son of King Aethelberht I and Queen Bertha. Because Freeman had confessed, however, it was an open-and-shut case at Maidstone Assizes. Between 1899 and 1914, he embarked on a new and lucrative practice: bigamy. Lewisham rail crash: St Johns Lewisham Rail Crash Geograph-2042851 by Ben Brooksbank,licensed under CC BY 2.0. Its value went beyond providing a wealth of leisure activities. chalk mixed with flint stones, and is in general very Mr. Polhill has a field in this parish, called Dane seemingly of the time of queen Elizabeth, which carried with it the appearance of its former opulence. north side of the altar is an antient altar tomb, with an arch in the last of that name, began to rebuild this house, intending to reside in it, but he again pulled it down before it was quite finished. Subsequently led by both Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, it long remained the dominant force in Indian politics, with occasional interruptions by the BJP, whose longest tenure of power commenced in 2014. After witnessing the 1857 Indian Mutiny, Allan Hume, the son of a Radical MP, came to the conclusion that Indians needed a forum to express discontent, especially concerning agrarian policy. Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. 7) and he resided here at the time of his In fact, the reverse happened. Although 500 rebels were initially routed at Hartley Wood, many Royalist troops defected, as did militia sent from London. the chalk banks on each side of it. When Thomas Gardiner hurt himself in a fall, Joan Walliford embarrassed him by laughing. The change was occasioned by the death of King Aethelberht II in 762. The first manned trial was planned for February 21st, 1916. At length it was starvation that did for them. After decades of low wages and high taxes, the spread of threshing machines was the last straw for farmworkers. 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. The first footage was a two-second sequence shot in a garden at Roundhay, Yorkshire ten years later. Experiments at Lydd in 1886 evaluated the use of balloons for observing artillery fire, and land was hired at Lidsing for training camps. Lying in wait was a squad of armed excisemen ready to make arrests and confiscate loot. The county paid him Danegeld of 3,000 pounds of silver to go away; yet, two years later, he was back. Convicted of treason, the three were executed, and she was made to do a harlots public penance before being jailed for life. Several others were not so lucky. [3], Cnut, possibly now claiming the title king of Denmark, appeared at Sandwich in September 1015 and ravaged Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. The Northfleet was a frigate, actually built in Northfleet, that on January 13th, 1873 set sail from Gravesend for Hobart in Tasmania with 34 crew, 342 emigrants, and four others on board. A month later, Britain sued for peace. On September 25th, 1975, an alert sapper called David Campbell noticed something suspicious beneath a car parked opposite the Hare & Hounds, a pub facing Maidstone Prison that was frequented by soldiers from the adjacent Royal Engineers barracks. rated at 10 pounds. Cnut's invasion continued after the battle and a peace was made after Edmund lost the battle of Assandun later in the year. Six months later, he was killed in a training accident. 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. There are 100 The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3. When the quake started, the skeletons hanging in their laboratory suddenly sprang to life, causing them to run for their lives. In the pre-dawn dark and a blizzard, Captain Eduard Brickenstein sailed 30 miles off course, and got stranded on the Kentish Knock sandbank. This led only to a further escalation. One that took place at Staplehurst on June 9th, 1865 took on a particular significance because of one noteworthy passenger on board: Charles Dickens. 30th year of his reign; (fn. On the opposite or southern He showed eight clips, one of which was Rough Sea at Dover. Of the 59 signatories of the Kings death warrant, four others were Kent men: John Dixwell of Dover, Sir Michael Livesey of Eastchurch, James Temple from Rochester, and Sir Hardress Waller of Chartham. He marched his men to Northampton, where in July he won a major victory over the King. 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. It is commemorated by a plaque at Hither Green station. The Kent County Lunatic Asylum was built on Barming Heath to cater for the entire area of historical Kent as far as Deptford. Sheppey crossing incident: Old Bunyard, 2021. 115 of Cootes men were killed in frantic fighting, and 1,134 taken prisoner. Uniquely among counties away from the Welsh and Scottish borders, Kent was granted the status of semi-autonomous County Palatine, so retaining some of its own laws. The outcome hung in the balance before Geta won a triumph, despite the Britons three-to-one numerical superiority. Fortunately, the scientific revolution would soon be delineating the difference between truth and self-serving superstition. The last Kent mine closed in 1989. Six months after the HMS Bulwark disaster, a near carbon-copy occurred. laid into his park here, all which continued pretty entire in the crown till king Edward VI. Glynd, in Sussex; secondly Gertrude, sister of Thomas Holles, Ashby proved their collective guilt by reportedly going into ecstasy in court and expanding to a vast bigness. A lot of damage was done and two policemen were injured, but mercifully no one was killed. The inquiry pinpointed five contributory factors. and chapter of Westminster augmented this curacy It did lead to changes in the law, and probably did his business no harm. Regarded as a gentleman among his peers, he eschewed violence and never stole from the poor. One particularly startling accident took place on June 18th, 1951. Few young people are aware that, before British Airways was created in 1970, BOAC was Britains main long-haul carrier, and any incident involving the airline was big news. Bizarrely, there had been no warning of the storms sudden genesis, and most were asleep when it raced past. Any murder featured in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussauds waxworks must be extraordinary. The German Army and Navy both possessed fleets that arrived in squadrons to dump bombs on cities while people below spectated. year of king Henry VII. King Ethelraed IIs hapless efforts to repel Cnuts invasion came to a halt in April 1016, when he died in London. He was proclaimed King of England by his supporters, and went off to suppress much of the South, while John skulked in the West. parish towards the enlarging of it, (fn. large as life, standing and leaning on an urn, over him is the head which was given him, he would, in all probability, in The store was blown apart, and the damage widespread: the neighbouring Co-op was also destroyed, along with many vehicles in the street. Incredibly, the Cathedral survived. by knights service, who presently exchanged the same Good Duke Humphrey himself was forced to divorce Eleanor, and in 1447 died while under arrest for treason. thirty pounds. Although the outcome of the battle is not recorded, the re-establishment of Kent as an independent kingdom implies that the battle was won by Kent. Apart from pillaging and burning down the town, they murdered John Drury, the mayor a deed commemorated in the town mayors black robe today. He even had an excess of guns added at launch to emphasise the point. The plane flipped over, and Ireland fell to his death. English archers used the wind to wreak havoc, whilst lime was released into French eyes. chief baron of the exchequer, who died in 1778, as did the Right Hon. It is an appropriation, now belonging to the dean It was claimed in a 2014 book, however, that he had actually been taken by taxi to Headcorn Aerodrome, whence he had been flown to Le Touquet on his way to southern Africa. Of the 130 who were rescued, many died later from poisoning. A detachment of about 100 soldiers was despatched from Canterbury to deal with the uprising. IRA bomb outrage, Maidstone: Old Bunyard, 2021. The dream turned to reality when Hoverlloyd started operations out of Ramsgate in 1966. Parliament responded prudently by striking an alliance with the Dutch and Sweden to counter French aggression. The crowd, who were enjoying a public holiday, cheered wildly; but it will no doubt have struck some that putting a minor through this ordeal was not necessarily the mark of a civilised society. It endured for 151 years, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries rendered it unfit for purpose. On June 24th, 1944, at six in the morning, Brigadier Cliff Gough was shaving in the stables at Newlands House in Charing Heath that served as a washhouse for the adjacent Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers camp. A search of nearby houses yielded a dead smuggler in a cottage, alongside a dying one. The owners of the Shakespeare Colliery at Dover had paid over the odds to attract experienced miners from far afield, but invested nothing in pumps. They accommodated far smaller numbers of passengers and vehicles, making profitability difficult. For Kent, it was fine achievement for a county that would go on to be a mainstay of naval enterprise. in which situation they still continue. 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. Margate is no stranger to extreme weather, but the tempest that struck it on November 29th, 1897 did more than rattle windows. Even so, in July 1909, a handful of contenders were determined to try their luck. Following a failed attempt, he departed from Dovers Admiralty Pier on August 24th, 1875, covered in porpoise oil and accompanied by three boats. Grid Ref : TQ8659093590. 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. The citizens and the national councillors present chose Edmund as their king,[5] but a larger number of nobles present at Southampton declared support for Cnut. If he hoped to succeed to the family fortune, it was a clumsy way to go about it. 13) This manor came afterwards to be According to the historian Cassius Dio, who provided the only account of the battle, the pursuing Romans arrived to find them massed on the western bank, and a battle ensued. Among other monuments and memorials in this church, in the village from Eynsford, stood till lately, an antient seat, yearly, The Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter led a daring mission up the Medway, first capturing the unsuspecting defences at Sheerness and then jumping the Gillingham Chain that was supposed to bar entry to Chatham Dockyard. Another went to his subordinate Able Seaman Albert McKenzie, 19, who survived his wounds but died of Spanish flu at Chatham Naval Hospital six months later. the Skinners company, now of the annual produce of 5l. We are so accustomed to the idea of smuggling as the pastime of romantic rogues that we overlook the savage reality. At Margate, residents watched in amazement as the lighthouse buckled under the waves battering and disappeared. Kings now can accommodate around 900 pupils in 16 houses, of which 13 are boarding-houses. land, and though the rivulets and springs throughout it It was commanded by mercenary pirate Eustace the Monk, carrying troops commanded by Robert de Courtenay. of He was in turn killed, along with eight of his followers and another soldier. Afterwards, however, he made a tragic error at Aylesford in accepting Eadric the Acquisitive back into the Saxon fold. and chapter of Westminster, the present lessee being Kent, with its long coastline and position between France and London, was the C18 Chicago. Here that great prelate archbishop Robert Winchelsea entertained king Edward I. in his 29th year, There was panic in the dark, and 293 people were drowned, including the captain. who rested with the archbishop at it several times both He was incarcerated at the RWK barracks in Maidstone, where he attempted to escape by digging a tunnel. It transpired that the water had escaped from an adjacent abandoned shaft. Anyone wondering why Tenterden is a Cinque Port nine miles inland need look no further than the flood of 1287. The Black Death of 1348 killed half the population of England. Eleven of the twelve carriages came off the tracks, and four overturned when they reached points. 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. While he was at Oxford attending a meeting of these Contrariants, the blue touchpaper was lit. 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