The English Channel alone stood in his way. On January 28th, 1896, he went hurtling through Paddock Wood at 8 miles an hour, well in excess of the 2 mph limit. 168 people were killed, including 33 children, and another 122 injured. 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. He faced a doughty opponent: Hubert de Burgh from Norfolk, a veteran defender of sieges. 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. His incendiary rhetoric drew a gang of supporters who followed him on foot. Once in, the Vikings did all they were notorious for, including stripping the city bare, setting fire to the cathedral, and taking eminent hostages, one of them being Archbishop Aelfheah himself. His force at Maidstone amounted to 10,000 volunteers; but he made the mistake of sending the majority to defend other towns. to the British churches and monasteries in general were The Indemnity & Oblivion Act pardoned most conspirators, but for 104 Regicides there was to be no amnesty. The next morning, men from Broadstairs and Margate dragged another lifeboat two miles through the snow to Foreness Point, where the ship was now on the rocks. The dagger was still in his pocket, but he declared, I have done enough! and the old man survived. whose son, Sir Charles Farnaby Radcliffe, bart. His unique feat became the subject of a 1957 movie, based on a book co-written by Erith-born James Leasor. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3. Although Becket had never been at all popular with the public, the manner and place of his murder caused outrage, and the Cathedral was presented with a perfect martyr who would help turn pilgrimages to Canterbury into a world-famous institution. side, a magnificent monument, with the statue of a gentleman, as He was in effect a harbinger of the English Reformation. Because Freeman had confessed, however, it was an open-and-shut case at Maidstone Assizes. After failing to starve the defenders out, Louis agreed a truce in October. Demands was presented that eventually went well beyond those of the Spithead mutineers. 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. 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.. Someone produced an inflated pigs bladder, the football of its day. His army landed in Thanet in May 1216. Undeniably Ebbsfleet heralded the dawn of the 400-year Kingdom of Kent. possessed by the Cobhams of Sterborough, which he the palace. Perhaps mercifully, it was never established who set off the fire too soon. Days later, his Messerschmitt Bf109 crash-landed at Loves Farm near Marden. On June 1, Being a Sheerness resident is not that different from living on the side of Vesuvius. (Cropped, minor text edits). Originally published by W Bristow, Canterbury, 1797. 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. Being unreliable, however, she was eventually converted to a man-of-war. The Aero Club soon moved to Eastchurch, so Sheppey remained Britains civil aviation capital. It is an appropriation, now belonging to the dean After a very Kentish show of defiance, they gave up. Mr. Polhill has a field in this parish, called Dane The Maidstone Typhoid Epidemic was national news for months: nearly 2,000 were infected, and at least 132 died. 4) reserved Otford to the SS Princess Alice was known locally as the Shahs Boat because she had carried the Persian king five years earlier. That there belonged to it a three weeks court held World war resulted, costing Britain its world-power status. It took place on Penenden Heath, north of Maidstone, and amounted to the trial of Williams rapacious half-brother Odo, who as Earl of Kent had been indicted by Archbishop Lanfranc. It became a symbol of Victorian greatness as iconic as Frances Eiffel Tower. Truculent was cut apart by the impact and sank like a stone. About 120 vessels had taken shelter in the Downs, normally a safe haven. [8], The wording of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the battle was fought to the south of the river crossing at Brentford, while other sources, including the Kntsdrpa suggest the battle was fought on both sides of the river. On May 25th, 1951, he met Burgess for a birthday celebration at his home at Tatsfield, near Westerham. in the 29th year of his reign, as has been mentioned At least it raised a cheer in the fundraising Irish nationalist bars of New York, Chicago, and Boston. King Ethelraed IIs hapless efforts to repel Cnuts invasion came to a halt in April 1016, when he died in London. It was plainly an effective tactic: English resistance folded when Cnut returned with a large army two years later. The Callis Court gang was a notorious band of smugglers. A fair is held here on the 24th of Among them was being blamed for the death of the corrupt Duke of Suffolk, who had been washed up on the Kent coast. Although they had a following wind, the basket was so heavily laden that they several times nearly ditched in the sea. In July 1216, he headed back east to remedy the omission. But insults were not enough. The bombers returned later that month, and in October a fighter-bomber attack killed 30 more. Furthermore, Englands humiliating inability to prevent this blatant breach of its territorial integrity became a factor in the later Anglo-Dutch Wars. It did lead to changes in the law, and probably did his business no harm. Many men survived the impact, but soon died in the freezing cold; 64 were lost, and only 15 rescued. After leaving politics, he discovered God. The sun and moon were pulling gravitationally in the same direction, and the consequent spring tide was exacerbated by a storm on the North Sea. without issue, in 1761, devised this estate, among Renamed Curaao, she first crossed the Atlantic in April/May 1827, reaching Suriname in 28 days at a stately eight knots. They replicated one that Gray had already done with thread but on a larger scale, along a whole gallery. On May 21, El & Humph were the C15 supercouple. Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, was central to one of the great criminal mysteries of the C20. whilst at it; among others, that the archbishop finding afterwards the succeeding archbishop, Walter Reynolds, had the king's licence to purchase lands in that It was his job to read out the charge, demand the Kings plea, and later announce the death sentence. All were hanged at once at Penenden Heath, a record. It was too late. The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. Resistance remained fierce, however, both from the sea and Willikin of the Wealds heroic guerrilla warfare. A search of nearby houses yielded a dead smuggler in a cottage, alongside a dying one. 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. December 1703 saw the most destructive storm in English history. the crown, where it continues at this time. On January 24, 1809, they found themselves together in the Downs off Deal, ready to make their way to Madras. He actually died five years to the day after the accident. them the church. After sailors mutinied and took over Deal, Sandwich, and Walmer, the Earl of Norwich landed, leading an armed insurrection in Kent and Essex coinciding with a revolt in Wales and invasion from Scotland. In order to evade prosecution, he crossed the Thames by ferry and remarkably raced by horse to York. [2], During this time Eadric Streona, the ealdorman of Mercia, is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as having hindered the efforts of the English to resist the Viking invaders. Their four armies were to converge on London from Kent, Devon, Herefordshire, and Leicestershire respectively. This led only to a further escalation. The end product, a slapdash affair, was lambasted by critics after its launch screening on Boxing Day; but the EP reached No. There was much wisdom after the event, with pundits especially blaming insufficient testing. Nevertheless, one story has survived of an encounter between Normans and Kentishmen, possibly near Swanscombe, when the invaders did not have things their own way. 115 men and boys were killed; seven could not be found, having been vaporised. She then began obtaining chocolate creams from a local confectioner, John Maynard, and returning them after adding her own ingredient: strychnine. The outbreak eased in the autumn, entered a second peak just before Christmas, and was effectively over by late January. Wellcome L0010915, Margate pier after the storm of January 1978. of the nobility and gentry of this county. Kitty Hawk, NC is famous for hosting the first powered flight, by the Wright brothers in 1903; but what of Bexley, Kent? The Church reacted in the normal manner of centralised authority, by declaring this challenger a devil and his followers idiots. The source was identified as the spring at Farleigh supplying parts of Maidstone with water, which had probably been polluted by hop-pickers down from London. Astonishingly, when he told MI6 that he had changed his views, he was believed and enrolled as a British spy. It was also commemorated in a 1975 folk song, and a plaque was unveiled in 2013 bearing the names of the dead. palmers scrips or purses of the second, stringed and tasselled or, One of this family, John Palmer, died possessed of Snelling himself got off scot-free; and, as an old man, he would even be introduced to Princess Victoria. 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. of it, the king's licence to assign four marcs yearly The authorities laid on a grand finale, hoping for a big Christmas crowd. Here was a seat inhabited for many four sons and one daughter; he left surviving Charles and Elizabeth; arms at top, Polhill with impalements; several memorials The curate of this church, in 1719, had a stipend palace excited the envy of the courtiers, passed it away, Arriving at Bordeaux for a scheduled stop, it encountered a queue, and was further delayed by an RAF transport with mechanical problems. The battle was fought as part of a campaign by Cnut to conquer England. William of Perth in Scotland was a well-to-do baker known for his kindness. The rest of the town police force was immediately summoned, but the flames took hold, and rapidly spread to neighbouring buildings. It transpired that another River Class engine had derailed and miraculously re-railed, though tests showed that it ran normally on a good line. The idea met with opposition from pacifists, but was championed by its first director general, Rochester-born Sir Martin Conway. high steward appointed to preside over it, and it remained with the view of frank-pledge, and the courts is the the above mentioned premises to Sir Thomas Smith, If you can hear me now, it will be the first time speech has ever been communicated to an aeroplane in flight. The only wonder is that no more than 13 were killed and 21 injured. They were in fact called Lollards, meaning something like Mumblers. The police revealed that the 40-year-old Decabral, from Pluckley, had had a long association with drugs, smuggling, and firearms, so the killing might have been linked to organised crime. SIR THOMAS SMITH, gave by will, in 1625, to six poor persons who do not receive alms, and frequent divine service, bread The aggrieved Margaret Thatcher insisted on a second tunnel for road traffic, but it never happened. HMS Truculent, a submarine, had served in the Pacific during WW2. 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 driver, Perry Wacker from Rotterdam, got 14 years for manslaughter, and nine Chinese gangsters were jailed in Holland. 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? 16). The incident did have a funny side. add it to his own domains. In the late 1940s, the Gloster Meteor was the fastest aeroplane in the world; but pushing the envelope meant that its safety record was less than satisfactory. Towards Sevenoke the soil becomes most beautifully executed; and a memorial for Charles Polhill, last-mentioned battle with the Danes was fought. He heard a noise and, looking up, saw a V-1 rocket heading his way, pursued by a Spitfire. That ship would be HMS Victory, and she would be built at Chatham. Charles II. By 1450, the rule of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou was already known as much for ineptitude as for brutality. His 36-minute flight had turned a page in the history of aviation. who rested with the archbishop at it several times both The battle was fought in 1016 as a result of Danish invasion of England. When the quake started, the skeletons hanging in their laboratory suddenly sprang to life, causing them to run for their lives. On August 20, In retrospect, some of the IRA outrages during the Troubles defy understanding. There is no doubt about either the barbarity of his premeditated crime or his guilt. Damage was estimated at over 10,000. rout to the Isle of Shepey, and had he not desisted The ship rebuilt in 1660 and renamed Royal Sovereign fought in major battles both against and alongside the Dutch, but was destroyed by fire at Chatham in 1696. The trouble was that, though faster and more frequent than ferries, even the advanced SR.N4 hovercraft were none too practicable. LITTLE PARK, part of those possessions likewise The new appointee in 1910 was Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge (1858-1944), from South Park at Penshurst. 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. 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. a large sum at that time, and here The sect left no trace. It was not until the Sunday morning that the wrecked hull and paddles were sighted on Tongue Sands. The Grosser Kurfrst turned to starboard and then straightened her course, whereupon the Knig Wilhelm alongside initiated the same manoeuvre. Fortunately, no deaths were recorded. 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. All the crew bar one were rescued. When he was apprehended, the prison population expressed its disapproval with a barrage of noise. in his last year, 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. Sydney lord of Kingsham, by Chichester, and of Isabella St. John, curing barrenness in women, which caused great resort of people to his image and shrine in this church; Fortunately, the English were civic-minded in those days, and turned out in numbers to get the streets clear. Over the following century, it often suffered wind and sea damage, but remained in use until 1976, when it was closed for safetys sake. The international media were out in force to report on talks moved there from Londons Churchill Hotel for security reasons: a powwow between Moshe Dayan, Foreign Minister of Israel, and his Egyptian counterpart Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel. The last Kent mine closed in 1989. When he was charged with the robbery, the Mayors alibi sufficed to get him off. It was doubly auspicious that the locals should have won it. When the people of Brentwood in Essex refused to pay, there was open unrest, prompting a general insurgency across the South-East. It was Jack Cade who organised a distinctively Kentish uprising. A mass grave was dug at the site for 73 corpses. 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. Had they drowned, they would have been held innocent, but the devil helped them stay afloat. Its not recorded whether the Sheriff ferried it straight to Deptford, or landed it at Dover and made it walk; but he did rack up nearly 7 in expenses. Following the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Great Britain took over administration of the subcontinent from the East India Company and appointed a viceroy. Mrs Quested, a neighbour, went in to investigate. Of these, 890 RAF Meteors crashed, claiming 450 lives. [3], Cnut, possibly now claiming the title king of Denmark, appeared at Sandwich in September 1015 and ravaged Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. During the C13, there were six violent storms that wreaked havoc with Kents southern coastal towns. King John died four days later, but de Burgh continued to resist on behalf of child king Henry III. Luckily, his son Edmund Ironside was made of sterner stuff. In March 1769, however, he was in for a surprise. After considerable experimentation, he constructed a vast aircraft with a wingspan of 104 feet, powered by two steam engines. In total, nearly 4,000 of them were produced. A man at Warren Street was nearly decapitated by a flying corrugated roof. battle of otford 1016 . 349 men died; just one stoker survived. Edmund Ironside (c. 990 - 30 November 1016; Old English: admund, Latin: Edmundus; sometimes also known as Edmund II) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. On 23rd April 1016, St George's day, Ethelred the Ill-advised, after having failed for the previous 25 years to prevent the country being ravaged by Vikings, did the only good deed that he ever did for England by dying. The attack was an echo of the Regents Park outrage of 1982, when seven Royal Green Jackets bandsmen were killed. As there was no register, the exact tally of fatalities is unknown, but it exceeded 600, making it Britains worst ever inland water disaster. One very costly attack however was that which struck Deptford on Saturday, November 25th at 12.26 pm. Like Lady Jane and 90 fellow rebels, Wyatt received no mercy. Penenden Heath in Kent (pronounced 'Pennendn') is . 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