Sandwich, which had been Englands biggest trading port outside London, never got over it. The first looked a good draw, the convicted felon being a boy. Hence the chalk hills rise on each Despite being born in Sussex, Jack Cade was known as the Captain of Kent for good reason. Ships were torn from their anchorages and tossed around like toys, crashing into each other with calamitous effect, and no hope of rescue. exchanged by archbishop Cranmer with Henry VIII. The Captain appealed to Bismarck to take it up, but he fortunately was busy planning war on Austria. He realised too late that the ship, the Swedish oil tanker Divina, was steaming straight at him. With the whole area ablaze, it could be seen from miles around. So traumatic was the experience that, when the Norman Vikings invaded 55 years later, Kents capital gave in without a fight. In 1137, however, a monastery known as Folkestone Priory was built nearby. The usual condemnations were issued, a solemn funeral procession took place, a commemorative bandstand was built, and the perpetrators went to ground. Deal Castle shook so violently that it seemed in danger of collapse. After his death in 1035 Emma tried to make her son, Harthacnut, king of England, and he would rule jointly with Harold Harefoot, Cnut's son by his first wife, until 1037 when Emma and Harthacnut were exiled from England. Needless to say, the effect was devastating. This was John Any Bird Bell, 14, from a Rochester poor-house. She was known for beauty and wits, he for sophistication and hedonism. In March 1769, however, he was in for a surprise. A battle on May 31st, 1838 in Bossenden Wood near Boughton-under-Blean is generally recognised as the last on British soil. By 1936, it had stood there for 82 years. Huguenot was another religious name coined as a term of derision. This led only to a further escalation. house; notwithstanding which, his immediate successor, (fn. The 5 oclock service to Deal set off from Cannon Street with the usual load of commuters. this manor descended from the Rev. More stayed in Dover, but most moved on to Canterbury, which acquired the largest foreign population outside London. others, to his kinsman, Sir Richard Betenson, bart It contained a party of 60 Chinese men and women, all but two of whom were dead. It turned out that there had been murder above bloody murder. In consequence of which This was later concentrated down to a narrower front from Dover to Hastings. 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 There No risks were taken, and all River Class engines were withdrawn until they had been rebuilt to a new design. Fortunately, many bandsmen had already gone outside to exercise; but 11 were found dead in the rubble, and 21 injured. It was struck from behind by a steam train from Cannon Street to Ramsgate carrying 700 passengers at 30 mph. The obvious location was the site of the former Placentia Palace, close to Greenwich Park and beside the Thames not far from London. After further close shaves, including a pardon that spared him transportation, he was arrested on a charge of murdering a constable. [6] Edmund returned to London where Aethelred died on 23 April. ago, sold it to Sir Jeffry Amherst, K.B. There were three explosions so tremendous that they were heard in France, and windows were shattered in Southend. 2d of king Philip and queen Mary, (fn. river from that of Shoreham, now claims the reputation of a manor, and is called OTFORD NEW PARK. 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. On August 24th, de Burgh led the English fleet, using a battle-plan worthy of Nelson. 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. If all was pre-ordained by God, where did that leave free will? 168 people were killed, including 33 children, and another 122 injured. In the C14, the Oxford priest John Wycliffe earned the opprobrium of the Roman Catholic Church by railing against many of the Churchs mainstream beliefs and practices, including the extravagant lifestyle of clergymen. Thomas Farnaby, bart. The defendant was later granted clemency and transported; but the incident helps explain why the Indian National Congress, founded in 1885 by Kent-born Allan Hume, was initially unpopular, and Russell Street survives. Some even thought him a madman. There is no doubt about either the barbarity of his premeditated crime or his guilt. Mysteriously, after the, The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. [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. his descendant, of the same All were taken to the depot, where a multi-national gang armed with AK-47s was waiting. Kent-born Bartolomew de Badlesmere, who had been granted stewardship of Leeds Castle, joined the party of barons opposing them. Nevertheless, Louis and Kent still had unfinished business. On his return, he was greeted by a crowd of over 3,000. Of the 26 buildings destroyed along with their contents, three were warehouses, four pubs, and 19 houses and shops. She ascertained that the tenant, 29-year-old bricklayer Sharrock Bragg, had taken a hammer to his wife Mary, and then their 5-year-old daughter Ellen, and finished by cutting his own throat with a razor. Under these terms Cnut gained Mercia and payment for his army, while Edmund held Wessex. The pub was hurriedly cleared, and local residents were being warned when the bomb went off. Maidstone too came in for rather pointless punishment. 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. This great showman used a short rope to ensure a slow death by strangulation, giving him the pretext to pull theatrically on the guilty parties legs, or even climb onto their shoulders, to break their necks. Domesday, in which record it is thus entered, under Bostock, and is now the property of the Rev. The inquest found that the bridge had been dangerously designed and maintained, but returned a verdict of accidental death. It was not long before reality intruded. In order to evade prosecution, he crossed the Thames by ferry and remarkably raced by horse to York. In view of his past record, he was hanged. Dyke. After divorcing Jacqueline, Humphrey settled with Eleanor at Placentia Palace in Greenwich, where they ran a celebrated court frequented by the artistic slebs of the day. villeins, with 11 borderers, having 4 carucates. 13) This manor came afterwards to be village towards Chevening. Six were killed. use of himself and his successors, and it remained in of the same will to Thomas Lane, esq. It showed 17 seconds of waves crashing against the Admiralty Pier. sixty acres of land, in trust, to be sold for the benefit Schoolmaster William Jaggers, the lodger, was woken by the sound of groans coming from the next room. Four aircrew survived and, arming themselves with the planes machine guns, ran off after planting an explosive device. is the A crater 20 feet deep and 50 yards long was blown out of the seabed, and seismographic equipment on the west coast of America recorded an earthquake measuring 4.5. Thirty years earlier, Israel had triumphed in the Arab-Israeli War, and now occupied the Sinai Desert after reasserting its military dominance in 1967 and 1973. known by the name of the Lesser or Little Park. Aethelred was forced to flee to Normandy. Her life ended tragically. The last and best remembered sea-battle off Sandwich occurred in 1460 during the Wars of the Roses. He was in effect a harbinger of the English Reformation. The Prince of Wales, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling all came to see it, and HG Wells based a sci-fi story on it; yet Maxim abruptly abandoned the project. accounted a manor, and seems in the reign of king Then, abruptly, it was no more. Six weeks later, the only other Blriot 155 in existence was carrying seven passengers on the same route. The mens courage is commemorated by the distinctive Surf Lifeboat Memorial on Marine Terrace. Charing Heath flying bomb: Old Bunyard, 2020. Edmund 'Ironside' recreation of 2nd Battle of Otford (1016) fame. 's reign, obt. In 1878, Captain James Templer from Greenwich set up and then commanded a School of Ballooning at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. there is mention The outbreak eased in the autumn, entered a second peak just before Christmas, and was effectively over by late January. His plan was to hold the Admiralty to ransom by blockading the Thames. Regarded as a gentleman among his peers, he eschewed violence and never stole from the poor. By then, with the propeller broken and the ship taking on water, the order had been given to abandon ship; but most of the lifeboats were lost in the gale. present possessor of them. A tunnel between England and France must have been mooted as soon as the land bridge connecting them was severed ten thousand years ago. Sheppey crossing incident: Old Bunyard, 2021. It was published as a weekly in Canterbury in 1717, but soon started appearing on both Wednesday and Saturday. The Nore is an anchorage off Sheerness that gave its name to an infamous mutiny. It was the highest ever death toll in Britain in the illegal-immigration industry. Sadly, Rolls was killed a month later when a control cable on his aeroplane broke, making him the first British aviator to die. Unfortunately, in the short term, it would provide only short-term respite against an implacable foe. The aggrieved Margaret Thatcher insisted on a second tunnel for road traffic, but it never happened. Britannia, built in 1806, made just one voyage to China and India. On its third run, Maxim and his two crew went so fast that the plane broke its restraints. On the night of January 11th, 1978, a violent storm blasted much of the jetty to smithereens. The hailstones measured almost an inch in diameter, and fell in torrents. IRA bomb outrage, Maidstone: Old Bunyard, 2021. That historic event prompted the London-based American Birt Acres to create his own movies during the summer and autumn. Two years later, however, the appeasers had their way. Concerning. between the village and the river Darent, have immemorially been called by, it should seem that he is Amazingly, although 68 were injured, there was not a single fatality. Although some Spanish ships got through, about 40 were sunk and 7,000 men killed. Wheler reported the ground-breaking results to the Royal Society, which awarded Gray its first Copley Medal. and queen Elizabeth, afterwards made several grants of His now dead associates never divulged the truth, and his fate remains unknown. The RAF got the Gloster Meteor flying by July 1944, too late to have any great impact. The case emphasised the importance of making the new Automatic Warning System generally available. In the era of sail, it was customary for warships to form a line that fired on the enemy passing in the opposite direction. of Maidstone, Both Popham and Coote, who was badly wounded, were freed soon afterwards in a prisoner exchange. the king's licence purchased lands and meadows here, It was therefore re-designed by Sir Christopher Wren as todays distinctive four blocks, preserving a riverine view through their middle. of Otford, to Sir Anthony Denny, to hold in capite lands in Essex; (fn. It was in fact one of the bloodiest civilian incidents of the War. of which was worth fourteen pounds per annum beyond that sum. The local disturbance was so strong that entire buildings fell down, including churches. But the little or Lesser Park, lying on the north Two miles further on, she ran into trouble. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. The fire service was unable to make much difference because the tide was out and there was no other water source. If he hoped to succeed to the family fortune, it was a clumsy way to go about it. 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 returning bombers were engaged off Belgium by nine Sopwith pups of the Royal Naval Air Service, who managed to shoot down just one. The loss appears trivial alongside the Senghenydd disaster of 1913, when 439 coalminers died in an explosion, but no less harrowing for those affected. 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. 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. Customs & Excise always struggled to cope, not only because it was ill-equipped and outnumbered, but also because of corrupt officials and collusive communities. From this period of time Otford continued part of The beautiful 17-acre site amounted to a Victorian theme park, offering a top leisure experience even without the benefit of technology. by . A Yorkshireman, he served in the Army before taking up a favourite occupation of ex-soldiers, highway robbery. This manor, lordship, and seignory of Otford coming thus into the king's possessions, appears thenceforth The Marine Palace, an extensive entertainment complex on the site of the current Rendezvous restaurant, was obliterated, barring only its brick-built components: its concert hall, swimming-baths, switchback railway, and shops simply disappeared. The opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 sounded the death knell. He was the Duke of Gloucester, uncle and protector of the boy King Henry VI. add it to his own domains. All the crew bar one were rescued. Reformation theologians generally went along with Catholicism on this; but a major challenge was presented by the Freewillers. On July 30th, 1652, seven witches were tried by Sir Peter Warburton at Maidstone Assizes: Anne Ashby, Mary Browne, Anne Martyn, Anne Wilson, and Mildred Wright of Cranbrook, Mary Reade of Lenham, and Elizabeth Hynes. Of the millions of hours of film ever made, the very first, in 1878, was Eadweard Muybridges short loop showing a horse galloping. Thanks for that Craggs, often it seems that on old battlefields no skeletons have survived. The Dutch withdrew with the loss of one ship, but the Commonwealth declared war two months later. Otford, battle of, c. 776. The four knights who were sent to deal with him were led by Reginald FitzUrse, who had estates at both Barham and Teston. Strangely, though he was hanged, she was burned at the stake, having been found guilty of petty treason against a superior, namely a man. On August 18th, a brand-new Air Union Blriot 155 was travelling from Le Bourget to Croydon with two crew and 13 passengers when an engine failed. with whom it remained till the restoration of king That evening, he went to see the Lord Mayor and struck a wager with him. On the second, Hosidius Getas legion mounted a surprise attack. A favoured destination was Elizabethan England, with its sympathetic Protestant work ethic. Marching from Dover to London in October 1215, King John found his path blocked by, The First Barons War (1215-17) was a civil war on English turf between Normans loyal to the atrocious King John and Normans prepared to do anything to dethrone him. The other battle was fought in 1016, between King Edmund, surnamed Ironsides, and Canute, the Danish King. He therefore headed for Lympne airport. Although safety was inevitably iffy, what happened in 1926 shocked the nascent industry. 349 men died; just one stoker survived. Stillman The bloodstained boy, 19, reported that he had just murdered his 22-year-old brother George in bed, having premeditatedly beaten his head in with the blunt edge of a meat cleaver and finished him off with a dagger. He was executed at Penenden Heath on August 15th and buried at Bearsted, while old Sondes found himself heirless. Snelling himself got off scot-free; and, as an old man, he would even be introduced to Princess Victoria. It was more like Prohibition Era gangsterism: as costly to society as it was to the Treasury. The Maidstone Typhoid Epidemic was national news for months: nearly 2,000 were infected, and at least 132 died. 2). August, for pedlary ware, &c. Antient history makes mention of two famous Whatever the true cause, Saxons will have seen it as a sign of Gods anger. and several tales are told of the miracles he wrought At 10.55pm on March 6th, 1897, 14 men were sinking the Simpson shaft when water burst through the walls with explosive force, and the shaft rapidly filled. It battered the town for hours, as monstrous waves up to road level flooded the streets. Louis renounced his claim to the English crown and went home; thered be no King Louis I of England after all. 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