to have been owned by John At-Welle Edmund was forced to come to terms, and within a month was dead, by fair means or foul. Charles, meanwhile, ploughed his own furrow. 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. In these situations, a mysterious fire normally comes into play, but this case was different. who dying, without issue, it came by the limitation The bodies and body parts were collected and identified as well as possible, a mass grave was dug at Lenham, and, after dark, all were buried together by lantern light. He even had an excess of guns added at launch to emphasise the point. The first looked a good draw, the convicted felon being a boy. This led only to a further escalation. It was perhaps a portent: those two nations had just formed an alliance, and would both be at war with England that century. Dover incident: Old Bunyard, 2020. Three years later, a specialist hoverport opened in Pegwell Bay. The Celts retreated to the Thames, but were only delaying the inevitable. Though earthquake damage was worst in Northern France and Flanders, the tremors rendered Saltwood Castle uninhabitable, while in London two children were killed by falling stones. both sides. With the first Civil War over and King Charles safely in custody, the Puritan-dominated Parliament was free to throw its ideological weight around. Luckily, his son Edmund Ironside was made of sterner stuff. Unfortunately for them, soldiers of the London Irish Rifles were billeted nearby in The Sportsman pub at Seasalter. which extended into Sevenoke parish, for four years Sadly, Rolls was killed a month later when a control cable on his aeroplane broke, making him the first British aviator to die. After King Henry VI was captured in 1455, a sort of peace descended; but his French wife Margaret of Anjou continued to agitate for civil war. 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. 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. It caused quite a stir thereabouts. surviving son, Sir Robert Sidney, by letters patent, The Weald having long been a hive of Lollard dissent, with Tenterden, Benenden, and Cranbrook at its centre, he presided over a purge, starting in April 1511. While he was at Oxford attending a meeting of these Contrariants, the blue touchpaper was lit. who rested with the archbishop at it several times both On the night of January 11th, 1978, a violent storm blasted much of the jetty to smithereens. 17) all which were granted in the 1st and 3) soon after which one Werhard, a powerful priest, and kinsman to archbishop Wlfred, found 2). with quarterings, in the middle a mullet for difference. It was his job to read out the charge, demand the Kings plea, and later announce the death sentence. Hence the chalk hills rise on each of the archbishop of Canterbury. the archbishop's possession at the taking the survey of Alice Arden of Faversham decided with her low-born lover Thomas Mosby to murder her husband, former mayor Thomas Arden. Its foundation date actually makes it the oldest continuously existing school in the world, the Kings School in Rochester (founded 604) being a relative stripling. The curate of this church, in 1719, had a stipend It could have been worse, however. lonely and gloomy appearance, and in all probability Originally published by W Bristow, Canterbury, 1797. The other battle was fought in 1016, between King Edmund, surnamed Ironsides, and Canute, the Danish King. 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. El & Humph were the C15 supercouple. 24 were killed, and another 18 injured. December 1703 saw the most destructive storm in English history. Maintenance was criticised, especially as the speed limit had recently been increased. yearly, Mysteriously, after the, The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. This barbarity was an act of pure spite, meant as a rebuke to the English council that had sworn fealty to his fathers rule but shunned Cnut in favour of Ethelraed the Unready. them the church. All either confessed to having had the devil appear to them in the form of a cat or, would you believe, a hedgehog. Many cars were damaged, thousands of windows broken, and the town centre covered in what looked like snowdrifts. A case can be made out for each. There was however a sting in the tail. Sansom was found guilty of dangerous driving, but treated leniently on the jurys recommendation. Several rebels subsequently found guilty of murder were reprieved. An orderly noticed that a fire had been started by a clothes iron that had been left on, and at 6.40 am alerted the Fire Brigade. She was moored off Sheerness while being loaded with mines. The accident happened because a stretch of rail had been removed during engineering works on a 10-feet high viaduct. Of these, 890 RAF Meteors crashed, claiming 450 lives. [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. Bizarrely, there had been no warning of the storms sudden genesis, and most were asleep when it raced past. 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. Despite being born in Sussex, Jack Cade was known as the Captain of Kent for good reason. There are 100 On November 26th, the destroyer HMS Bulwark was at Kethole Reach, five miles off Sheerness. 173 passengers and crew were rescued, though the ship was plundered by vultures sailing from Ramsgate, who even stole from the dead. The . The new appointee in 1910 was Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge (1858-1944), from South Park at Penshurst. After fleeing to a friends house in Uckfield, East Sussex, he was never seen again. Six years after being sacked for his outspokenness in 1879, he single-handedly founded the Indian National Congress. Redemption came two weeks later from an unexpected quarter. He stopped to discover the grim reality. 6). staff into the dry ground, and that water immediately Amazingly, although 68 were injured, there was not a single fatality. His counsel requested leniency because the law really applied to steam engines. So, when the Government ordered a new first-rater in 1758, it was a big deal. Within weeks, during the seminal showdown at Assandun, Eadric and his men again defected, handing Cnut a decisive victory. Nevertheless, Hoverspeeds days were numbered. 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. At 4.41 am on July 25th, he set off from Sangatte, maintaining a steady 45 mph. 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. of Otford, to Sir Anthony Denny, to hold in capite This Operation Dynamo was not only conducted by Royal Navy vessels, but also a flotilla of 700 shallow-draught Little Ships of every description from across the South East, most crewed by Navy sailors. It was published as a weekly in Canterbury in 1717, but soon started appearing on both Wednesday and Saturday. The Battle of Brentford 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 Assandun) between the English led by Edmund Ironside and the Danes led by Cnut. Had they drowned, they would have been held innocent, but the devil helped them stay afloat. It is therefore in the highest degree unlikely that Canute would have placed . Tossed around by wind and tide, he ended up breast-stroking 40 miles in a zigzag course before he reached Calais; strong currents held him up for five hours. Foundation of Kings School: Old Bunyard, 2020. By then, 19 protesters had been hanged, 644 imprisoned, and 481 transported. The obvious location was the site of the former Placentia Palace, close to Greenwich Park and beside the Thames not far from London. However, he was also found guilty of driving a horseless carriage, failing to have three persons in charge, and failing to display his name and address. Before being packed off to a detention camp, the Germans were taken to The Sportsman for a beer or two. 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. Kings now can accommodate around 900 pupils in 16 houses, of which 13 are boarding-houses. Like the Harbledown Hospital founded six years later at Canterbury, it was intended as a leper colony, but also catered for the poor. All were hanged at once at Penenden Heath, a record. Sea defences were breached at Seasalter and Sandwich, and the consequent flooding was so serious that the two inundations met in the middle, Thanet temporarily reverting to an island. Patrols from HMS Ganymede and HMS Ramillies regularly rowed ashore from the Downs to guard the coastline. granted by the archbishop to king Henry VIII. Customs & Excise always struggled to cope, not only because it was ill-equipped and outnumbered, but also because of corrupt officials and collusive communities. Snelling himself got off scot-free; and, as an old man, he would even be introduced to Princess Victoria. 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. The Battle of Ashingdon is also known as the Battle of Assundun, the Battle of . On May 27th, 1915, at 11.14 am, she exploded with ferocious force. In total, nearly 4,000 of them were produced. All three planes came down within a radius of 100 yards. Renamed Curaao, she first crossed the Atlantic in April/May 1827, reaching Suriname in 28 days at a stately eight knots. Around midnight, a Dutch truck that had arrived from Zeebrugge was taken aside for investigation by customs officials. Good Duke Humphrey himself was forced to divorce Eleanor, and in 1447 died while under arrest for treason. Afterwards there emerged a scene of destruction whose like would not be seen again until the Blitz. (Cropped, minor text edits). and supreme sovereignty, the other between the Danes 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. 16). Charles would personally receive a monumental bribe from France, plus the help of French troops in case of rebellion. The record does not say who won, but the fact that King Egbert issued his own charters afterwards suggests a temporary reverse for the master. Quickly! The rebels were met halfway by Audley, who took over command. in his 1st year, granted the parsonage and advowson of Shoreham, with this chapel Their trial consisted in being dunked in the river. The Brigadier described a scene of total devastation. Six months after the HMS Bulwark disaster, a near carbon-copy occurred. Abree took on a successor, George Kirkby, and retired in 1768, at which point James Simmons launched the rival Kentish Gazette. 18) to Humphrey He took a sympathetic approach to Indian nationalist concerns, for which reason he was relatively popular. Strangely, though he was hanged, she was burned at the stake, having been found guilty of petty treason against a superior, namely a man. There might never be a problem, but if there is, it wont be trivial. On October 5, One of the most spectacular pile-ups in British history took place on September 5. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. One consequence was the accelerated introduction of continuous rather than jointed track. Its epicentre was not off the North Foreland but on the coast of France, near Calais. At length it was starvation that did for them. (Cropped). He married a string of women at least nine to extract money from them, whatever it took. She was returning from a pleasure trip to Sheerness when she turned straight across the path of the collier Bywell Castle. More botches followed before they finally succeeded; but they left the body in a field in a snowstorm, apparently unaware that their tracks would be left visible. Gerard Manley Hopkins recorded the wreck in a poem dedicated to five nuns who drowned. The atmosphere was oppressively muggy, and eventually turned to storms; yet nobody expected what happened on Thursday, May 25th. Wyatt was left isolated when the plot was exposed, but assembled an army of 1,500 men of the best shire at Rochester. It was published as a weekly in Canterbury in 1717, but soon started appearing on both Wednesday and Saturday. Huguenot was another religious name coined as a term of derision. 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. The inquiry pinpointed five contributory factors. The returning bombers were engaged off Belgium by nine Sopwith pups of the Royal Naval Air Service, who managed to shoot down just one. There is no point in looking up Folkestone Abbey on Tripadvisor: it ceased to exist many centuries ago. Of this manor three Thaines (fn. It embarked on constructing an 8-storey, 256-space car-park with a difference: one using a system of lifts and pulleys to transport each car to its parking slot and later return it automatically for collection. their arms, Argent, a chevron sable, between three They managed to take off the whole crew of 23 before she foundered. Several others were not so lucky. It was at the time the highest loss of life in a British road accident. Early one morning, a trustee prisoner called Peters absconded during a regular medical examination and used a skeleton key to try and release a hardened criminal called Bennett. As there was no register, the exact tally of fatalities is unknown, but it exceeded 600, making it Britains worst ever inland water disaster. HMS Truculent, a submarine, had served in the Pacific during WW2. Before long, Kirkby was obliged to merge the Post into the new title, which has continued to serve Canterbury as a weekly until the present day. Stillman It endured for 151 years, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries rendered it unfit for purpose. The fire service was unable to make much difference because the tide was out and there was no other water source. Britannia, built in 1806, made just one voyage to China and India. [5] Edmund was then joined by his brother in law, Earl Uhtred of Northumbria, and attacked towns which according to Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury, had sided with Cnut. After Usborne and Squadron Commander De Courcy Ireland had ascended to 4,000 feet, intending to launch the plane, the airship unaccountably flexed, causing the aircraft to become partially detached. Six years after being sacked for his outspokenness in 1879, he single-handedly founded the Indian National Congress. He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. Poignantly, the accident occurred only a mile or two from the site of the Lewisham rail crash ten years earlier. On the second, Hosidius Getas legion mounted a surprise attack. Theres an elephant waiting near Calais, it said, and youre to get it to the Tower of London for my menagerie. William of Perth in Scotland was a well-to-do baker known for his kindness. Eleanor was accused of witchcraft after being told by three astrologers that the King would soon die. The engine struck it and turned sideways, causing the following carriages to pile into it. On returning to Germany via South America, Spain, and Italy, he was awarded the Iron Cross. It was to be a large affair, housing over 2,000 retired sailors; so a problem arose when it was realised that it would block the view of the Thames from the Queens House. IRA bomb outrage, Maidstone: Old Bunyard, 2021. Havock Square, outside Maidstone Museum, now marks the point where the Royalists made their bloody last stand, although a thousand hid in the chapel before surrendering. house; notwithstanding which, his immediate successor, (fn. present possessor of it. at Otford, wherein actions not above forty shillings She set off for London at 3.30am on Friday, March 29th. 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. There is nothing left of residence of the Petty's; several of whom lie buried in It glanced off a roof and struck the workshop, killing 46 of the camps 244 men; the eventual death toll was 52. At 6.15pm on September 16th, 1918, Commander NW Diggle was on the Dover cliffs when he heard an explosion, and saw his ship HMS Glatton on fire. Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. rent, issuing out of certain tenements, called Le Rye, The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rule are referred to together as the North Sea Empire. Their ready admission to such nonsense suggests a good deal of coercion, but it was enough to see them arraigned. Ashby proved their collective guilt by reportedly going into ecstasy in court and expanding to a vast bigness. and a fair was held at Otford on his anniversary. The first grammar school in Kent, it set a precedent for the likes of Dartford Grammar School (1576), Norton Knatchbull School (1630), and the Harvey Grammar School (1674), making Kent a grammar-school hotbed. It dangled nose-down before the stressed rear fixture also broke. . It has been for some years possessed by the family of 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. His army landed in Thanet in May 1216. Charing Heath flying bomb: Old Bunyard, 2020. Seaman Thomas Atkins was swept from the sinking Mary onto the deck of the Stirling Castle, which itself was about to capsize. the victory, yet it was not without great slaughter on 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 one of a series of battles fought between Edmund and Canute, ultimately resulting in the lands held by Edmund's father Ethelred the . The barracks subsequently moved elsewhere, and the pub today is a haunt of football fans. 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 name was changed to the Imperial War Museum in acknowledgement of Indias contribution to the British Army. in the 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. Kents Petition of 1642 had only goaded Parliament into civil war. Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. Aethelred was forced to flee to Normandy. Clearing the debris was a major task. The peculiar circumstances revolve around John Nichols Tom, alias Sir William Courtney. The first was on December 21st, 1914, amounting to two bombs dropped into the sea off Dover by a German seaplane. When a detachment of soldiers approached the rebels in a clearing, Tom shot their lieutenant. sandy, and on the eastern and western hills it is entirely He was the son of King thelred the Unready and his first wife, lfgifu of York.Edmund's reign was marred by a war he had inherited from his father; his cognomen "Ironside" was given to him "because of his valour . In view of the nature of its occupants, it was built outside of the city wall in a part of Chatham under Rochesters jurisdiction. As the horrible reality sank in, firemen leapt into action, but too late. curing barrenness in women, which caused great resort of people to his image and shrine in this church; add it to his own domains. rough, the manor of Danehull, in this parish, formerly It turned into a rout. His incendiary rhetoric drew a gang of supporters who followed him on foot. death of king Charles I. in 1648. Five years later, Templers Balloon Factory became the Royal Aircraft Factory. After this palace, with its parks and appurtenances, The barons whod forced the Kings hand at Runnymede were still unhappy, and next invited Louis, son of King Philippe II of France, to join them in deposing the King of England. (Cropped). The first in Kent was the Kentish Post. 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. The Battle of Assandun (or Essendune) was fought between Danish and English armies on 18 October 1016. the archbishop is rated at 60 pounds, of the Thaines 12 King Edward VI. He won a great victory, killing many of the raiders and capturing nine ships; its also recorded that some Danes ended up overwintering in Thanet for the first time. which makes it far from being pleasant, and gives it a Meanwhile, the people of Kent grew accustomed to the daily sight of dogfights overhead, as Hurricanes and Spitfires, pursued by Messerschmitt fighters, took on Heinkel, Dornier, and Junkers bombers. In Britain is one breath; We all are with you now from shore to shore: Ye men of Kent, tis victory or death! Perhaps wisely, Napoleon called the invasion off. Despite the carnage, with a war on, the factory was soon rebuilt. of it, the king's licence to assign four marcs yearly his widow lady Sarah Smythe, in 1790, and by her will The consensus was that Gods will was supreme, but there was endless dispute about the detail. [4], While Edmund was in Wessex raising a new army Cnut renewed the siege of London, but was again unsuccessful. 1727. 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. Yet the community responded more collaboratively than some societies with greater medical knowledge and healthcare expenditure. of Sevenoke, by whom he had no issue. Edmund, surnamed Ironside, passing the river Thames It was while teaching at Charterhouse School that he discovered he could make a charge migrate along a stick. All on board were lost. As police suspicion grew, she sent herself parcels in the hope of incriminating Maynard. to it several court leets, within the hundreds of Codsheath, Sommerdenne, Sherborne Borough, and Kingsborough; all adjacent hundreds to this honour. The blast, which killed 79 crew, had been caused by a fire in newspapers unaccountably tucked by Tyneside shipbuilders into the lagging of the midship magazine. An attempt to break it up caused the whole lot to go off. 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. THE MANOR OF SERJEANTS OTFORD, with the It was plainly an effective tactic: English resistance folded when Cnut returned with a large army two years later. Edmund joins forces with the Northumbrian Uhtred Edmund and Cnut ravage Cnut's army closes on York, and Uhtred and the Northumbrians submit to Cnut April 23, 1016. He engaged a businessman named George Jones to realise it. of Bradborne, in Sevenoke, who dying 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. It is possible that the incident which happened to be witnessed from another ship by the librettist Arthur Sullivan inspired the blackly comic collision caused by Admiral Horatio DAscoyne in Kind Hearts and Coronets. Yet, determined to have their prize, they must have returned with a bigger army that drove out the Brythons for good. During the Eighty Years War between the Spanish Empire and the emerging Dutch nation, a fleet was sent from La Corua to reinforce and resupply Spanish troops in Flanders. The military operation in Flanders devised by Captain Home Popham during the Revolutionary War with France was an eerie forerunner of the disastrous Zeebrugge Raid of 1918. Tens of thousands of Huguenots were slaughtered, prompting an exodus. Dartford to Sevenoke goes through the village of They all served little use. The raids ultimately proved merely a distraction from Hitlers war on Russia, and brought Germany retaliation on a horrendous scale. 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. The first battle was fought in 773, between Offa, King of Mercia, and Adric, King of Kent, when Offa gained the victory, yet not without slaughter on both sides. Her life ended tragically. Oakwood Hospital is now the St Andrews residential estate. The temperature rose as high as 91F, which was then exceptional for that time of year. 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. 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. The source of the uncertainty is the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, 1 miles offshore. They realised they needed to suspend the thread with silk to avoid contact with the ground, and so discovered the principle of insulation. By the following spring, over 300 British planes were equipped with wireless apparatus. afterwards the succeeding archbishop, Walter Reynolds, had the king's licence to purchase lands in that In April 1803, Napoleon sold Louisiana to fund his imperial ambitions, and Britain declared war. In March 1769, however, he was in for a surprise. Eleven of the twelve carriages came off the tracks, and four overturned when they reached points. The consensus was that Gods will was supreme, but there was endless dispute about the detail. chapel to Shoreham, is a peculiar of the archbishop of In an effort to stop German U-boats using Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium, the Royal Navy attempted to scuttle three blockships in its entrance. By 1922, the country was settling down again after WW1. IN THE YEAR 791, Offa, king of Mercia, whose gifts Of the millions of hours of film ever made, the very first, in 1878, was Eadweard Muybridges short loop showing a horse galloping. 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