The fields here are full of the remains of those slain On Friday, September 22, Disgraced Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken was the MP for South Thanet (formerly Thanet East) for 23 years, albeit not a, Kent was the scene of another unwanted record on June 18, 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. Disgraced Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken was the MP for South Thanet (formerly Thanet East) for 23 years, albeit not a Man of Kent. For Britain, it was a classic victory over a world-class opponent for a nation that, a thousand years later, would possess the finest fleet in the world. As a finale, the structure would be spectacularly burned down. of the same will to Thomas Lane, esq. Someone else subsequently admitted to the offence on his deathbed. Only about 30 bodies were ever recovered. render it very moist and marshy, yet it is here rather fertile. It did lead to changes in the law, and probably did his business no harm. (fn. within these parks of Otford. 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. The technologys potential value suddenly became obvious. Amazingly, although 68 were injured, there was not a single fatality. This wind really was an ill one. this manor descended from the Rev. Version 5.0. to their being surveyed, and sold to supply the necessities of the state. (fn. It spiralled down with pieces flying off, and crashed into a bungalow. King Charles II was most fortunate that his Treaty of Dover remained secret for a hundred years. 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. Meanwhile, however, the Kent Messenger Group which started with the Maidstone Telegraph in 1859 had been growing steadily stronger, and acquired KCN in 1980. in the 44th year of that reign, had a grant in see of extensive woods, and other lands for their pleasure and Regrettably, the importance of his work was not fully appreciated before others muscled in. The Northern Belle was a trading vessel operating out of New Orleans. When a constable was sent to arrest him, Tom shot him dead. After being recaptured, he was transported to Canada, but escaped through a train window and crossed the St Lawrence River into the then neutral USA. There were three explosions so tremendous that they were heard in France, and windows were shattered in Southend. year of king Henry VII. It acquired its present name from King Henry VIII, who granted it a royal charter in 1541 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. They ejected their ballast, anchors, food and drink, and finally even their clothes. The chapel of Otford, annexed to the parsonage of The new appointee in 1910 was Charles Hardinge, 1, It is fitting that, 17 years after one corner of Kent saw the, During WW1, Neville Usborne (b 1883) had the unique distinction of being both a Royal Navy lieutenant and a wing-commander, having taken command of the. side of the altar for Robert Polhill, gent. Mr. Polhill has a field in this parish, called Dane Louis departed the scene, returning in May 1217 to renew his assault with a huge siege engine. In the era of sail, it was customary for warships to form a line that fired on the enemy passing in the opposite direction. The hailstones measured almost an inch in diameter, and fell in torrents. the title of Terra Archiepi Cantuariensis, i. e. the land The boys motive became a national talking-point. 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. Operation Sealion: IWM COL 238. The Captain appealed to Bismarck to take it up, but he fortunately was busy planning war on Austria. The foundation of the Kings School, Canterbury (597), fully co-educational in 1990. Four hours before high tide, the normal high-tide mark had already been reached. Anyone wondering why Tenterden is a Cinque Port nine miles inland need look no further than the flood of 1287. The Gardens were originally targeted at the gentry, but thrived when the price was dropped and the offering moved downmarket. The name was changed to the Imperial War Museum in acknowledgement of Indias contribution to the British Army. It turned into a rout. Coincidentally, the Hundred Years War was going badly, and a series of poll-taxes designed to raise funds exacerbated popular hostility. The Royal Mail commemorated the projects bicentenary in 1991 with a set of stamps featuring Hamstreet near Ashford. A war followed, with landmark battles probably at Aylesford (455) and Crayford (457). 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! Another was picked out by the spotlight, slumped over the roof. the manor of Le Rye, in Otford, in the second year 2d of king Philip and queen Mary, (fn. Edmund, surnamed Ironside, passing the river Thames The Battle of Brentford (1016) was fought in 1016 some time between 9 May (the approximate date Canute landed at Greenwich) and 18 October (the date of the later Battle of Ashingdon) between the English led by Edmund Ironside and the Danes led by Canute. These unfortunates would be a lasting reminder to Anglo-Saxon nobles of his contempt for them. The first looked a good draw, the convicted felon being a boy. Structural damage was also widespread. JOHN CHARMAN by will, gave 20s. David Polhill, esq. A Junkers Ju 88A-1 lost one engine after being hit by anti-aircraft fire over Upnor, and was brought down by fighters on Graveney Marshes. Following a failed attempt, he departed from Dovers Admiralty Pier on August 24th, 1875, covered in porpoise oil and accompanied by three boats. The five, however, endured a single visit to the stake. A big issue facing Christianity from the start was predestination. of Canterbury, and continued so till the same was 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. What they discovered inside was horrific. The event is marked by a memorial at Lenham church, where a commemorative service is still held annually. 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. Had they drowned, they would have been held innocent, but the devil helped them stay afloat. As a political entity, it made slow progress until, in 1924, Mahatma Gandhi took over as President, and used it as a vehicle to propel himself to power and his homeland to independence. Cnut (/ k nj u t /; Old English: Cnut cyning; Old Norse: Kntr inn rki [knutr n rik]; died 12 November 1035), also known as Cnut the Great and Canute, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. 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. As that happened in France, he planned an encore in England at this, the only viable civilian site. About 6,000 ghouls came to gawk, their behaviour later being excoriated by the coroner. IN THE YEAR 791, Offa, king of Mercia, whose gifts A favoured destination was Elizabethan England, with its sympathetic Protestant work ethic. village from Eynsford, stood till lately, an antient seat, Few Woolwich residents can have lamented the demise of their council, which by then had been subsumed into the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It contained a party of 60 Chinese men and women, all but two of whom were dead. side of this parish, and parted on the west side by the Needless to say, Queen Mary took a very prejudicial point of view. August, for pedlary ware, &c. Antient history makes mention of two famous Whole sections had to be rebuilt, this time in gothic style; the discontinuity is easily spotted today. [3], Cnut, possibly now claiming the title king of Denmark, appeared at Sandwich in September 1015 and ravaged Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. It was a gallant effort: five months later, two others attempting a Calais-to-Dover crossing were killed when their balloon caught fire. others, to his kinsman, Sir Richard Betenson, bart He allowed the heavily laden French fleet to pass Sandwich before setting sail, looping behind them to attack from the windward. The Petitions presenters to Parliament were arrested, its perpetrators were declared delinquents, it was publicly burned by hangmen, and Parliament concocted its own petition with more signatures. 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. The battle was fought in 1016 as a result of Danish invasion of England. It became a symbol of Victorian greatness as iconic as Frances Eiffel Tower. On August 20, In retrospect, some of the IRA outrages during the Troubles defy understanding. That evening, he went to see the Lord Mayor and struck a wager with him. 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. Within weeks, during the seminal showdown at Assandun, Eadric and his men again defected, handing Cnut a decisive victory. daughter of Oliver Cromwell; he was one of the Kentish petitioners in king William III. Disappearance of Lord Lucan: Old Bunyard, 2021. Although the outcome of the b After they had lodged for three days at Rochester, the lad led him astray, hit him over the head, cut his throat, robbed him, and disappeared. The train behaved strangely, rolling excessively when going fast around bends. 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. Thirty were drowned. Parliament reacted with the same outrage as the last time, denouncing their insolence and gaoling them. In 1830, the entrepreneurial Islingtonian Jeremiah Rosher had the idea of creating a leisure resort for Londoners at a former chalk-pit he owned, where Northfleet now lies. Six years after being sacked for his outspokenness in 1879, he single-handedly founded the Indian National Congress. The nobles found against Odo and confiscated part of his possessions. powers then in being seized on the royal estates; and Wat Tyler took control of the revolt, capturing Canterbury and assembling an army at Blackheath before causing mayhem in London. was returned, that Otford was a parsonage, rented at Sent to a high-security PoW camp in the Lake District, he disappeared during a walk, sparking a huge manhunt. The governor sent in a posse of 150 officers to restore order and place the ringleaders in punishment cells. French inventor Clment Ader later claimed rather dubiously to have flown even earlier, but it seems more likely that only Maxims failure to commercialise his invention cost Bexley a place in history. 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. The Dark Ages are so called not because they were uneventful or miserable, but because they left us next to no contemporary records. Being heavily laden there were 340 tons of iron rails and 240 tons of other equipment on board the Northfleet sank within 30 minutes, before any nearby ships were even aware she had a problem. Less than a month after being commissioned in May 1878, the SMS Grosser Kurfrst of the German Imperial Navy was sailing past Folkestone with two other German ironclads when two local boats were spotted crossing their path. 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 SS Deutschland with her crew of 90 was carrying 123 German emigrants to New York via Southampton. The prospect of this C21 technology speeding passengers from Kent to France was mouth-watering. In an effort to stop German U-boats using Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium, the Royal Navy attempted to scuttle three blockships in its entrance. 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. As at Gravesend 25 years earlier, conditions were perfect for a blaze, most buildings being close together, wooden, and coated with asphalt. As a member of the occupying forces, he might have hoped to get off scot-free; but the chief justice of the supreme court of Bengal, Sir Henry Russell from Dover, insisted on a death sentence. As crowds watched from the clifftops, three rescue boats put out. Even as far away as Hollingbourne, the church and manor suffered serious damage. 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.. This time, Louis gave up for good. Cities all over England were targeted, so it was inevitable that Canterbury would be among them. Despite official reassurances, they could still explode at any time. A man carrying a red warning-flag was positioned only 554 yards up the track, barely half the regulation distance, which was insufficient to allow the train to stop in time. THE MANOR OF SERJEANTS OTFORD, with the If all was pre-ordained by God, where did that leave free will? The battle has been labelled the first recorded sea battle in British history. 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. That first one-inch-to-the-mile Ordnance Survey map was published privately in 1801, soon followed by one of Essex. 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. David Polhill, esq. There was an exchange of fire. In a matter of a fortnight, however, spring was bypassed and high summer arrived early. War was duly declared, and the 3rd Dutch War proved another calamity. Bizarrely, there had been no warning of the storms sudden genesis, and most were asleep when it raced past. The scite of it, with a considerable estate in this parish, is now in the possession He spent decades leaking secrets to the Soviets, even during WW2 when the USSR was Britains ally. Not everything could be made good with money, however. From the heirs of Reformation theologians generally went along with Catholicism on this; but a major challenge was presented by the Freewillers. 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. palace excited the envy of the courtiers, passed it away, It started a copycat pattern of Luddism that resulted in over 100 machines being destroyed in East Kent within eight weeks. More subtly, a deputation approached William offering either the branch of peace or the sword of war; he opted for the former, and agreed to their demands. Memorials for Bostock and Brasiers; a memorial on the south He could not speak for two weeks, and his son said he never got over it. It went pear-shaped as early as the opening by Princess Margaret in May 1961, when the demonstration car got stuck and had to be removed by hand. The battle was lost, Audley was executed, and reparations were exacted. 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. It could have been worse, however. The first was on December 21st, 1914, amounting to two bombs dropped into the sea off Dover by a German seaplane. of Cheapstead, son of Thomas Polhill, esq. That same week, the Wrights turned up to meet the Short brothers, the English balloon-makers; the latter agreed to build a factory at Leysdown, and won an order for six aircraft. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A BOAC Douglas C-47 piloted by Captain IR Goalen took off on its way to West Africa. NEXT to Shoreham southward lies OTFORD, (Cropped). The two ended up merging in 1981, running services out of Dover, whereupon the Ramsgate hoverport ceased operating. The pilot responded as instructed, by dipping his wings. Eight months after the collision, she was stopped off Dover and confiscated. It all went awry when the wind changed direction, so the vital smokescreen was not forthcoming. to have been stiled the HONOR OF OTFORD, having a Her death sentence was commuted to life in Broadmoor. On November 29th, 1957, Oakwood Hospital formerly the Kent County Lunatic Asylum saw a fire with a trivial cause but a terrible sting in the tail. His now dead associates never divulged the truth, and his fate remains unknown. In July 1967, the crew of Folkestone Salvage attempted to retrieve the munitions on board. Her friends Joan Cariden, Jane Hott, and Elizabeth Harris were named as accomplices. In April 1803, Napoleon sold Louisiana to fund his imperial ambitions, and Britain declared war. . anno 1300, (fn. King Edmund II - NNDB Sevenoaks Bus Station 1016 1251 Bat & Ball St James's Road 1020 1255 Otford Pond 1024 1259 Otford Station n 1026 1301 Shoreham Station n 1031 1306 Eynsford Station n 1034 1309 Farningham Lion Hotel 1041 1316 Swanley Rogers Court 1046 1321 Swanley Bartholomew Wa yASD, A 1050 1325 Swanley Bartholomew Wa yASD, A 1054 1329 . The attack was an echo of the Regents Park outrage of 1982, when seven Royal Green Jackets bandsmen were killed. Undeniably Ebbsfleet heralded the dawn of the 400-year Kingdom of Kent. Somehow or other, baby Mary had survived. Experiments at Lydd in 1886 evaluated the use of balloons for observing artillery fire, and land was hired at Lidsing for training camps. Paul McCartney decided they needed a new project quickly, and so the Magical Mystery Tour movie was born. Fortunately, no deaths were recorded. Wreck of SS Richard Montgomery: Thames Richard Montgomery KC 7722 (Modified) (cropped) by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 3.0. for the Rounds and Mainards. Canterbury, and consequently in that deanry. taken down. By the time she had been built by JH and J Duke on Shakespeare Beach, the order had been cancelled; so she was sold to the Dutch government for a transatlantic mail service from Rotterdam to its South American colonies. Among other monuments and memorials in this church, in the Its epicentre was not off the North Foreland but on the coast of France, near Calais. The rest of the town police force was immediately summoned, but the flames took hold, and rapidly spread to neighbouring buildings. among other premises, in exchange to that king. He was in effect a harbinger of the English Reformation. After blustering about the Sword of Truth, he started a libel action. After extinguishing the English nobility at the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror showed zero tolerance to popular opposition. Edward III. It was however the beginning of the end for him. in Otford, held of the archbishop, to Adam Fleming, Saturday, August 7th, 1655 did not start well for widower Sir George Sondes of Lees Court in Sheldwich. the chalk banks on each side of it. Investigation revealed that it was a people-smuggling exercise organised by a Chinese snakehead gang. Britannia, built in 1806, made just one voyage to China and India. According to legend, a madwoman found Williams body and unaccountably placed a garland on his and her own head, curing herself of her madness. A lot of damage was done and two policemen were injured, but mercifully no one was killed. convenience, in their own possession. The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. On September 29, The Kentish rebellion of Spring 1648 went further than football. Left single, in bold parley, ye, of yore, Did from the Norman win a gallant wreath; Confirmed the charters that were yours before; No parleying now! There was, however, one incredible good-luck story. Later that month, however, SS RF Matthews actually rammed the Lightship; this time, the message was for real. Some of the crew had been re-stowing cordite charges for the ships guns. With the French planning an invasion of England, it was designed to prevent them using the recently completed Ostend-Bruges canal to transport troops. The dispute elicited sympathy for families faced with joblessness, though there was little public appetite for another Three-Day Week. The brothers of Rochester decreed the occurrence miraculous, and buried the corpse in the Cathedral. Margate Jetty: Margate pier after the storm of January 1978 by Nick Smith, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. 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. There was a further trail of destruction at the jetty and sea wall, and numerous properties were inundated. It was another matter on the Goodwin Sands, which became a seamens graveyard. Broughton saw it coming, and fled to Switzerland for the rest of his life. This story of outstanding heroism travelled around the world. the palace. the village, near the palace, is dedicated to St. Bartholomew, a saint of great credit here for the gift of A battle on May 31st, 1838 in Bossenden Wood near Boughton-under-Blean is generally recognised as the last on British soil. ONE OF THE FAMILY OF POLHILL gave by will, 20s. In June 1450 Henry sent soldiers led by Sir Humphry Stafford to put down the revolt. There was so much concern about it that even the Queen sent a personal message of comfort. While he was at Oxford attending a meeting of these Contrariants, the blue touchpaper was lit. At Otford, he won a sterling victory that saw the invaders fleeing to Sheppey. The impact caused one packed carriage to be crushed by those behind it. By the time Hardinge completed his tour of duty in 1916, his young wife had died back in Penshurst two years earlier. Domesday, in which record it is thus entered, under MGS will therefore celebrate its quincentenary within 30 years. The ship drifted onto the Nore sandbank, and broke her back. 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. they continued down to Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, barren. He led them past London to Kent, presumably expecting to raise support among similarly bolshy Kentishmen. 6). A statue was erected at Dover to mark his achievement. 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. The local Fire Brigade had a set-piece entertainment that involved rescuing a spoof bride and groom and their guests from a three-storey structure while smoke bombs and flares went off. The loss appears trivial alongside the Senghenydd disaster of 1913, when 439 coalminers died in an explosion, but no less harrowing for those affected. who dying, without issue, it came by the limitation rough, the manor of Danehull, in this parish, formerly He became a national hero, and his 21-hour 40-minute swim was commemorated with a statue at Dover. A V-2 bomb with its 2,200-pound warhead landed on the Woolworths store in New Cross Road. A maritime incident off Margate on December 6th, 1875 could have had major international repercussions. In 1609, a Dutch jurist, Grotius, had championed the principle of open seas allowing unfettered Dutch access to the English Channel. the above mentioned premises to Sir Thomas Smith, 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. 19). estate; David Polhill levied a fine of it in the 16th 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. It seems formerly to have been known by the name It turned out that there had been murder above bloody murder. Here that great prelate archbishop Robert Winchelsea entertained king Edward I. in his 29th year, His 4,000 men put ashore at Sandwich on Sunday, August 28th, 1457. 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? An inquest suggested that Rudd was subject to depression, and not of sound mind. which he now resides. Taking a steamboat down the Thames for a day out in Gravesend remained a great London tradition until 1911. At 7.53am, the charges exploded, igniting hundreds of 6- and 12-inch shells. (fn. 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. Even so, England could consider itself lucky. the wall, ornamented with Gothic carved work, but the inscription is lost. Thousands lined the streets for the funeral procession, and 800 packed into Maidstones All Saints Church for the service. The Navy put on a brave face, awarding eight Victoria Crosses. Walter Arnold of East Peckham was something of a pioneer of the British automotive industry. staff into the dry ground, and that water immediately with his other estates in this parish, in exchange, in the Because of foul weather, by the 22nd she had still only reached Dungeness, where she was at anchor. With the whole area ablaze, it could be seen from miles around. 90 passengers were killed and 173 injured. Siege of Dover: Old Bunyard, 2020. Mrs Quested, a neighbour, went in to investigate. On the night of November 30th, a small fire was detected. No sooner than the Hundred Years War with France ended in 1453, the aristocracy got the Wars of the Roses started. On December 4th, 1957, the 5.18 pm electric train service from Charing Cross to Hayes set off with 1,500 commuters. Sandwich, which had been Englands biggest trading port outside London, never got over it. Deal Castle shook so violently that it seemed in danger of collapse. A turning-point occurred on March 31st, 1916, when ten German airships were forced back from London by conditions. The victim turned out to be Alan Decabral, a particularly interesting character, since he had expressed fears for his life after testifying as a key witness in the recent M25 murder case. 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. Otford's four churches are the Anglican Church of St Bartholomew in the village centre, the Otford Methodist Church, the Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, and the Otford Evangelical Church. It was finally dismantled in 1966 for another 1 million plus. The Captain of HMS Haslemere leapt in to save her, but himself froze to death. 150 workmen built the frame using 6,000 trees, mostly oak, at a cost equating to around 9 million. The local military were summoned, with others sailing over from Tilbury, and three different fire services arrived. His force at Maidstone amounted to 10,000 volunteers; but he made the mistake of sending the majority to defend other towns. No sooner had the Montgolfier Brothers made history with their first-ever manned flight than two more adventurers felt the need to upstage them. By 785, Offa was plainly the direct ruler of Kent, having subsumed it into his Mercian domain. On the opposite or southern They stole 53 million in cash. She was known for beauty and wits, he for sophistication and hedonism. They eventually turned on him and sought to take possession of Kent. Thomas Farnaby, bart. On their release, the Kent five were banqueted in London, and hailed as heroes back in Maidstone. Wishing to experiment further, he involved his friend Reverend Granville Wheler while visiting Otterden Place in June 1729. 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