24 were killed, and another 18 injured. When King Sweyn died after just months on the English throne, his son Cnut was quickly driven out. After retreating to London to regroup, Louis sent for a supply fleet from France. Her friends Joan Cariden, Jane Hott, and Elizabeth Harris were named as accomplices. 168 people were killed, including 33 children, and another 122 injured. The rail crash that occurred on Wednesday, August 24th, 1927 was not just fatal. Here was a seat inhabited for many The Battle of Assandun (or Essendune) was fought between Danish and English armies on 18 October 1016. The Kent Area aggressively picketed mines around the country that were returning to work, including Arthur Scargills own Barrow Colliery. In 1724, the dean The battle was fought in 1016 as a result of Danish invasion of England. In the rolls of the 13th of king Henry III. The source of the uncertainty is the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, 1 miles offshore. 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). It began in a first-floor tailors workshop adjacent to a ward housing 350 male patients. The Dutch withdrew with the loss of one ship, but the Commonwealth declared war two months later. He engaged a businessman named George Jones to realise it. Zeppelins now appear great lumbering affairs of little practical use. On January 11th, 1947, there occurred an extraordinary episode that left people wondering what had gone right. Although the outcome of the b Somehow or other, baby Mary had survived. In 1609, a Dutch jurist, Grotius, had championed the principle of open seas allowing unfettered Dutch access to the English Channel. rout to the Isle of Shepey, and had he not desisted 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. 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. A detachment of about 100 soldiers was despatched from Canterbury to deal with the uprising. 1699, t. which extended into Sevenoke parish, for four years It was another matter on the Goodwin Sands, which became a seamens graveyard. When the quake started, the skeletons hanging in their laboratory suddenly sprang to life, causing them to run for their lives. In view of the nature of its occupants, it was built outside of the city wall in a part of Chatham under Rochesters jurisdiction. The battle was fought as part of a campaign by Cnut to conquer England. them, particularly when the new turnpike road which Within a fortnight of the end of the phoney war in May 1940, a crisis had turned into a calamity. It was inevitable that, with its geographical position, Kent would be in the firing line when German bombing raids started. Some members were burned in Canterbury; but, by the time the order for Harts arrest went out in 1557, he was already dead. It even had its own cemetery containing 7,000 burials, with poignant memorials to nurses who had died at suspiciously young ages. Kent was Parliamentarian in outlook, like the rest of the South and East, but had Royalist landowners. Her life ended tragically. 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. Violence between police and flying pickets became commonplace, the so-called Battle of Orgreave in June 1984 signalling the Governments zero-tolerance intent. They eventually turned on him and sought to take possession of Kent. side towards the east and west. By the village pond, also a roundabout, there are pubs, cafes . 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. The RAF got the Gloster Meteor flying by July 1944, too late to have any great impact. On June 1, One of the biggest challenges facing the English Commonwealth under Cromwell was the mercantile strength of the Dutch Republic. river from that of Shoreham, now claims the reputation of a manor, and is called OTFORD NEW PARK. The inquiry pinpointed five contributory factors. It Whatever the true cause, Saxons will have seen it as a sign of Gods anger. Tens of thousands of Huguenots were slaughtered, prompting an exodus. She was moored off Sheerness while being loaded with mines. the little park, and other premises here, late belonging to the see of Canterbury, at the yearly rent of Investigation revealed that it was a people-smuggling exercise organised by a Chinese snakehead gang. They set off at 9 am on January 7th, 1785 in the expectation of arriving safely in Calais 150 minutes later. [7] Edmund would then travel to Wessex where the people submitted to him and he fought a series of inconclusive battles against the Danes and their English allies. 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. Around midnight, a Dutch truck that had arrived from Zeebrugge was taken aside for investigation by customs officials. Concerning. daughter of lord St. John, obt 1625; arms, a pheon; memorials the above family it passed at length by sale to George As Tsar Nicholas II was discovering in Russia, however, liberality may serve as an incentive to revolt. to their being surveyed, and sold to supply the necessities of the state. 80; he married IRA bomb outrage, Deal: Old Bunyard, 2020. Wall, vicar of Shoreham, whose only daughter and Five years later, Templers Balloon Factory became the Royal Aircraft Factory. The cyclone that raced through southern England in the early hours of October 16th, 1987 is often mistakenly called a hurricane because of its hurricane-force gusts. The Mayor of Canterbury arrived at the marketplace on December 25th to find few traders observing the legal injunction to work normally. him to reside in, as he intended to do, on account of Charles, meanwhile, ploughed his own furrow. Mysteriously, after the Cathedral had been entirely rebuilt in Norman style, there was a repeat a century later. possessed in undivided thirds, by Mompesson, Hyde, sixty acres of land, in trust, to be sold for the benefit and the manor of Otford Stuyens, alias Sergeants Otford, with the chapel of Otford annexed to the parsonage of Shoreham, and all other his estates in Otford, Accordingly, in 1650, the honour of Otford was The Duke of Wellingtons government fell, and the new Whig regime introduced the 1832 Reform Act as well as the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. They were in fact overtly political, and included the dissolution of Parliament and peace with France. The compact was signed in secret at Dover. [8] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the loss of men was caused by them drowning in the Thames, while historians Frank Stenton and Russel Poole have independently argued the men were lost in the battle. of Canterbury, and continued so till the same was Within weeks, during the seminal showdown at Assandun, Eadric and his men again defected, handing Cnut a decisive victory. On December 24th, three farm-workers were hanged together: Henry and William Packman, and John Field, a.k.a. On May 25th, 1951, he met Burgess for a birthday celebration at his home at Tatsfield, near Westerham. By then, future Transport Minister John Moore-Brabazon had become the first Briton to make a powered flight, five years after the Wrights. Flight Lieutenant Gordon McDonald of 41 Squadron was flying over Biggin Hill when his Meteor Mk.8 went dramatically out of control, possibly disturbed by the wake turbulence of another plane. She broke into two, and sank in four minutes. The dagger was still in his pocket, but he declared, I have done enough! and the old man survived. Her friends Joan Cariden, Jane Hott, and Elizabeth Harris were named as accomplices. In retrospect, it looks a symbolic funeral pyre. As crowds watched from the clifftops, three rescue boats put out. Yet the community responded more collaboratively than some societies with greater medical knowledge and healthcare expenditure. The peculiar circumstances revolve around John Nichols Tom, alias Sir William Courtney. add it to his own domains. On September 29th, three were hanged at Faversham; Harriss fate is unknown. in his last year, pounds; what Richard de Tonbridge holds in his lowy is They were not flawless: for example, the name Pilgrims Way was enduringly applied to the wrong route. 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. In September 1174, the building was again engulfed in flames, suffering major damage. In 1015 Edmund married Sigeferth's widow against the king's wishes, and took possession of the estates of Sigeferth and Morcar in the east midlands. This site proved too cramped, so the Museum moved to its present home, the former Bethlem Hospital in Southwark. Apart from the two valuable ships, Britannias lost cargo was worth 2.5 million today, while Admiral Gardner was carrying nearly 1 million in copper coins belonging to manufacturer Matthew Boulton. In its day, however, it was a significant institution, being the first ever nunnery to be established in England. 4) reserved Otford to the of it, the king's licence to assign four marcs yearly By 1936, it had stood there for 82 years. Arriving at Bordeaux for a scheduled stop, it encountered a queue, and was further delayed by an RAF transport with mechanical problems. Luckily, his son Edmund Ironside was made of sterner stuff. A crate of butter landed 6 miles away in Rainham, wreckage hit people in Sittingbourne, and severed heads were found in Hartlip and on the Isle of Grain. After his death, his eldest The last Kent mine closed in 1989. The loss appears trivial alongside the Senghenydd disaster of 1913, when 439 coalminers died in an explosion, but no less harrowing for those affected. Four hours before high tide, the normal high-tide mark had already been reached. battles fought at Otford, one of which happened among other premises, in exchange to that king. One year later, Napoleon envisaged a martial use: marching his army of invasion across the Channel. By the time Hardinge completed his tour of duty in 1916, his young wife had died back in Penshurst two years earlier. In 1808, a cadet called John Grant was found guilty of arson. He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. All either confessed to having had the devil appear to them in the form of a cat or, would you believe, a hedgehog. As early as 1815, Margate had the stone harbour-arm that doubles as a pier. 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. Kent was the scene of another unwanted record on June 18th, 2000. Perhaps; but, given the paucity of hard evidence, one might as well argue that God was reacting to the recent canonisation of the turbulent priest. Meanwhile, the tender and a carriage of the Ramsgate train concertinaed into a railway bridge, which collapsed on top. Dartford to Sevenoke goes through the village of who rested with the archbishop at it several times both The King mounted a major siege that the Contrariants opted not to interfere with. The 2nd Battle of Otford (1016) King Ethelraed II's hapless efforts to repel Cnut 's invasion came to a halt in April 1016, when he died in London. with his army, marched after Canute, the Danish king, The landlord, Brian Wooster, was in the habit of watching out for trouble coming through the door, but had not expected a threat from across the street. of church livings, in 1650, issuing out of chancery, it Sadly, his attempt 10 years later to swim across Niagara Falls proved one feat too many. It signalled an end to the phoney peace, and the start of further hostilities that, by the summer, would turn to mortal conflict. Reaction began in the Elham area, when a threshing machine was wrecked one Saturday night in August, 1830. 21). In July 1967, the crew of Folkestone Salvage attempted to retrieve the munitions on board. After fleeing to a friends house in Uckfield, East Sussex, he was never seen again. She strangely agreed to marry Jim Mollison eight hours after meeting him, but they did set aeronautic records together before getting divorced. Leeds Castle, east of Maidstone, looks so tranquil that it is hard to imagine serious conflict there. One victim was not found until later because his body had been blown onto a roof. The brainchild of martial arts expert Lee Murray-Lamrani, it was even bigger, better organised and more slickly executed than the Great Train Robbery of 1963, but like its predecessor was undone by carelessness during the money-laundering stage. The impartial gentry of Kent presented a petition asking the Long Parliament to compromise with the King, particularly by renouncing its claim to controlling the militia. It was plainly an effective tactic: English resistance folded when Cnut returned with a large army two years later. Battle of the Medway: John Fawkes, 2020 from BritishBattles.com. King Stephens forces under Gilbert de Clare laid siege to the castle. In 851, King Aethelstan of Kent took on a large Viking fleet off Sandwich. The high road from One went posthumously to Old Dovorian rugby international Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison, who was lost while leading an attack on the mole. 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. Ignored, Cade convened an army of 5,000 at Blackheath. A classic case concerns the battle at Ebbsfleet (Wippedesfleot), the Thanet village that shares its name with Gravesends railway station. of the nobility and gentry of this county. Sandwich, which had been Englands biggest trading port outside London, never got over it. His piety led him to undertake a pilgrimage to Canterbury, taking his ward with him. with his other estates in this parish, in exchange, in the King Edward VI. The archbishop himself holds Otefort in demesne. In its crudest version, the invaders were chased out of Kent by a mob bearing staves. with whom it remained till the restoration of king Because targets were selected for having three stars in the Baedeker guide-book, the campaign was called the Baedeker Blitz. Such ships of the line were divided into four ratings, according to their number of guns and crew. Interestingly, the bones of a young female discovered there in 1885 have now been dated to the C7. Sheppey crossing incident: Old Bunyard, 2021. Alice Arden of Faversham decided with her low-born lover Thomas Mosby to murder her husband, former mayor Thomas Arden. The plane crashed at Penshurst Airfield, and all seven on board were killed. After failing to starve the defenders out, Louis agreed a truce in October. Certainly it disturbed the Earthquake Synod in Blackfriars, where the Archbishop of Canterbury construed it as a portent endorsing the persecution of supposed heretics. When the Catholic Princess Mary usurped the throne from Lady Jane Grey in 1553, England was divided in a way not unlike Britain today. At Uplees, on what is now the Oare Marsh Nature Reserve, an explosives factory stood next door to the Explosive Loading Company. Meanwhile, however, the Kent Messenger Group which started with the Maidstone Telegraph in 1859 had been growing steadily stronger, and acquired KCN in 1980. Despite days of disruption, the wreckage was removed, the bridge rebuilt, and the lines re-laid within six weeks. That first one-inch-to-the-mile Ordnance Survey map was published privately in 1801, soon followed by one of Essex. It remained in this location until 1870, when a larger and quieter replacement was built off the Tonbridge Road west of the river; but this too was replaced just sixty years later by the more spacious building that forms the hub of the current school. LITTLE PARK, part of those possessions likewise (fn. Luckily, Hitler still hoped for Britains peaceful withdrawal from the War, and held off long enough for plans to be made for an ambitious evacuation. Eight months after the collision, she was stopped off Dover and confiscated. whose son, Sir Charles Farnaby Radcliffe, bart. 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. present possessor of it. (fn. this manor descended from the Rev. There is disagreement whether Assandun may be Ashdon near Saffron Walden in north Essex, England, or, as long supposed and better evidenced, Ashingdon near Rochford in south-east Essex. Vowing to fly his Imperial Eagle over the Tower of London, Boney terrifyingly amassed an army of 100,000 at Boulogne. September 1967 was a watershed for the Beatles. Independence would not be restored until his death in 796. On January 24, 1809, they found themselves together in the Downs off Deal, ready to make their way to Madras. It became a symbol of Victorian greatness as iconic as Frances Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately, it was unable to withstand the depredations of Danish Vikings, and what remained of it eventually fell into the sea. Against all the odds, the RAF provided just enough air cover for a third of a million men to be rescued in ten days. 13 major English ships were destroyed at anchor, and the flagship HMS Royal Charles was towed back to Holland as a prize. Huguenot was another religious name coined as a term of derision. What they discovered inside was horrific. There is disagreement whether Assandun may be Ashdon near Saffron Walden in north Essex, England, or, as long supposed and better evidenced, Ashingdon near Rochford in south-east Essex. The pilot responded as instructed, by dipping his wings. the lord Willoughby de Brooke. 20), By virtue of the commission of enquiry into the value yearly, For the avoidance of confusion, it was called Margate Jetty, but confusion resumed after it was impressively transformed in 1875 into a tourist destination popularly known as Margate Pier. his wife, daughter of John Polhill, esq. 90 passengers were killed and 173 injured. The blame was placed on slack man-management by warders who, having worked only on prison hulks, were unused to conventional prison methods. the other battle was fought in 1016, when king edmund, surnamed ironside, passing the river thames with his army, marched after canute, the danish king, through surry, into kent, and encountering the danes at this place, made a great slaughter of them; after which he pursued them as far as aylesford, in their rout to the isle of shepey, and had It wasnt quite so simple. Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. same year, with Barbara his wife, Sir Robert Sidney The Battle of Assandun (or Essendune) was fought between Danish and English armies on 18 October 1016. both sides. Redemption came two weeks later from an unexpected quarter. As that happened in France, he planned an encore in England at this, the only viable civilian site. rebuilt great part of this Claude Ridley, flying from Joyce Green near Dartford, intercepted Zeppelin L15 and fired off a few rounds from a distance. Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. His belief in the project was vindicated by the fact that, when it opened at the Crystal Palace in Penge in 1920, 94,179 visited on the first bank holiday after its opening, and 2.3 million in the first 18 months. Canterbury; (fn. It affected him terribly. It seems formerly to have been known by the name It was also remembered in the 1980s, when calculations were made to estimate its intensity; the Channel Tunnel was accordingly constructed to withstand such a battering, if it ever happens again. Between 1899 and 1914, he embarked on a new and lucrative practice: bigamy. On the opposite or southern Walter Arnold of East Peckham was something of a pioneer of the British automotive industry. Arriving out of the blue, they met with complete success: 95 men were killed, and 195 injured. Shakespeare even mentions the earthquake in Romeo and Juliet. Henceforth, English cities of high cultural value were to be targeted by the Luftwaffe, with the aim of breaking popular resolve. inclosed within it, parcel of the honour of Otford, for The tremors were felt right across southern England; so the effects of the two-minute quake were considerable in Kent, particularly in Canterbury, Dover, and Sheerness. Christiana Edmunds was born in Margate in 1828, the daughter of the architect of the local lighthouse. Some even thought him a madman. It was published as a weekly in Canterbury in 1717, but soon started appearing on both Wednesday and Saturday. As police suspicion grew, she sent herself parcels in the hope of incriminating Maynard. They then overshot Calais and landed in a forest, where their achievement has a memorial. On January 12th, 1950, there was another fatal collision in Kents busy waters, this one leading to a change in nautical regulations. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3. At 15, he saved his brother from drowning in the Severn, and after joining the Merchant Navy was celebrated for leaping into the Atlantic to try and save a man overboard. name, conveyed it by sale to king Henry VIII. Amazingly, although 68 were injured, there was not a single fatality. 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