The two former sold their shares to Sir rebuilt great part of this The aftermath was a scrapyard a mile long that took nine hours to clear. In the south chancel, a memorial The Puritans intolerance did not stop at restricting sports. Until Stephen Gray of Canterbury came along, electricity was thought to be static. Although the outcome of the b She then began obtaining chocolate creams from a local confectioner, John Maynard, and returning them after adding her own ingredient: strychnine. On January 12th, 1950, there was another fatal collision in Kents busy waters, this one leading to a change in nautical regulations. Numerous ships were wrecked, mostly with all hands: HMS Restoration (387 lost), HMS Northumberland (220), HMS Stirling Castle (206), and HMS Mary (268) among many others. All were hanged at once at Penenden Heath, a record. The high stewardship of the honour of Otford has The opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 sounded the death knell. Now the demesne of Sampson Waring, of Rochester, who, some few years It only brought him a temporary reprieve. 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. On the afternoon of Sunday, April 2nd, 1916, some bags caught fire in a shed storing 150 tons of ammonium nitrate and 15 tons of TNT. (fn. Kings now can accommodate around 900 pupils in 16 houses, of which 13 are boarding-houses. The plane struck trees, and half the 16 on board were killed. lionel richie lytham st annes. Although the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 is fashionably pitched as a Celtic nationalist revolt against the English monarch, it was in truth an armed protest against tax rises that was hijacked by a disgruntled minor aristocrat called James Tuchet, the 7th Baron Audley. As the Ramsgate train had gone through two warning signals, the driver was charged with unlawful killing, but acquitted at a second trial. The flashpoint was her decision to marry the Catholic King of Spain, Philip II, prompting a conspiracy by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Sir Peter Carew, Sir James Croft, and Lady Janes father, the Duke of Suffolk. 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. which was given him, he would, in all probability, in The blast left a 20-feet crater 40 yards wide. On November 26th, the destroyer HMS Bulwark was at Kethole Reach, five miles off Sheerness. The local military were summoned, with others sailing over from Tilbury, and three different fire services arrived. Oakwood Hospital is now the St Andrews residential estate. They accommodated far smaller numbers of passengers and vehicles, making profitability difficult. archbishop Warham, thinking the house too mean for The prospect of this C21 technology speeding passengers from Kent to France was mouth-watering. 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! This story of outstanding heroism travelled around the world. 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. Her friends Joan Cariden, Jane Hott, and Elizabeth Harris were named as accomplices. It only recovered when the growth of the Royal Dockyard added so much to the value of the Hospitals lands that the Crown even tried to sequestrate them. The two survivors were given leave to stay in Britain for four years. Maidstone, now Kents county town, had a school at the ecclesiastical College of All Saints as early as 1395. The Government attributed the storm to Gods anger with the nation, and ordered a day of fasting as penance. Although the Castle fell, Matildas forces eventually engaged Stephen in 1141 at Lincoln, where he was captured; but popular resistance to her accession barred her from formally becoming monarch. As Tsar Nicholas II was discovering in Russia, however, liberality may serve as an incentive to revolt. The whole east coast of Britain was affected, with 326 deaths caused by flooding. In May of the following year, he took delivery of a Wright Brothers biplane constructed under licence by Short Brothers in Kent. This sudden influx brought unrest over overcrowding, crime, and preferential treatment for strangers, but the Government prized the immigrants commercial worth, especially as weavers. conveyed the manor, lordship, and seignory of Otford, who is the This now world-famous tale has inevitably provoked cynical speculation that it was cooked up by prelates seeking a lucrative competitor to Beckets shrine at Canterbury. 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 was a gallant effort: five months later, two others attempting a Calais-to-Dover crossing were killed when their balloon caught fire. On September 29th, three were hanged at Faversham; Harriss fate is unknown. Although Sandwichs population was already swollen by Dutch Protestant immigrants, poor Huguenot refugees were awarded 50 shillings by the authorities. in the 1st and 7th years of his reign. 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. 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. rated at 10 pounds. Concerning. Printed copies of the signed petition were distributed. king whilst he lived, and for his foul afterwards. of Colletwell, and to have been for many years the Le Bourget had a thunderstorm and suggested Cormeilles, but he could not make contact by radio. One of these is in Ashingdon, Rochford in Essex. them; adjoining to which they had two large parks, The usual condemnations were issued, a solemn funeral procession took place, a commemorative bandstand was built, and the perpetrators went to ground. in Otford, held of the archbishop, to Adam Fleming, Version 5.0. The dispute elicited sympathy for families faced with joblessness, though there was little public appetite for another Three-Day Week. She sank in shallow waters, her masts remaining forever visible. He equipped that ship, the East Goodwin Lightship, for radioing the South Foreland Lighthouse, which was instantly in touch with the Ramsgate lifeboat. The accident prompted the introduction of the Truculent light on submarines to improve visibility. of king Richard III. made of an hospital, or house of leprous persons here. The former operated out of Dover, the latter Ramsgate. and perceiving the weak estate of the kingdom of In July 1216, he headed back east to remedy the omission. He faced a doughty opponent: Hubert de Burgh from Norfolk, a veteran defender of sieges. Yet, determined to have their prize, they must have returned with a bigger army that drove out the Brythons for good. Newspapers started showing up around Europe in the C17. which the family of Bosville had the see of this estate, in which name it continued down to Henry Truculent was cut apart by the impact and sank like a stone. De Burghs indomitability at Dover Castle tied up the invaders resources so seriously that Prince Louiss allies in the North were emphatically defeated at Lincoln. Ignoring his fathers and the Popes warnings, Louis sent a vanguard of knights to London, and then an invasion fleet. 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. known by the name of the Lesser or Little Park. His piety led him to undertake a pilgrimage to Canterbury, taking his ward with him. There was great enthusiasm for going to war in August 1914. Kent was the scene of another unwanted record on June 18th, 2000. Within a fortnight of the end of the phoney war in May 1940, a crisis had turned into a calamity. the Skinners company, now of the annual produce of 5l. The Battle of Assandun (or Essendune) was fought between Danish and English armies on 18 October 1016. It was Jack Cade who organised a distinctively Kentish uprising. 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. at which time it appears that there was a park here, [3], Cnut, possibly now claiming the title king of Denmark, appeared at Sandwich in September 1015 and ravaged Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. and Wall. The antagonists were Spain and Holland, and the warzone the Downs, the safe anchorage off Deal. After which the It acquired its present name from King Henry VIII, who granted it a royal charter in 1541 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. At 9.16, it derailed at 70 mph between Hither Green and Grove Park. The engine struck it and turned sideways, causing the following carriages to pile into it. esq. A tunnel between England and France must have been mooted as soon as the land bridge connecting them was severed ten thousand years ago. It was a signal for the sort of competitive mass brawl that infuriated the authorities. Experiments at Lydd in 1886 evaluated the use of balloons for observing artillery fire, and land was hired at Lidsing for training camps. So dramatic were these events that they inspired an anonymous 1592 play, now thought to have been written mostly by William Shakespeare himself. Hed been beaten by Kentish pluck, on land and at sea. If all was pre-ordained by God, where did that leave free will? As if the 1929 Gillingham Park fire disaster had not been enough, the town suffered another such calamity in 1951. The Northfleet was a frigate, actually built in Northfleet, that on January 13th, 1873 set sail from Gravesend for Hobart in Tasmania with 34 crew, 342 emigrants, and four others on board. Knowing that 13-year-old Richard Taylor regularly walked from Aylesford to Strood with his fathers 9-shillings sick benefit, he plotted with his brother to rob him. Fortunately, the English were civic-minded in those days, and turned out in numbers to get the streets clear. After the above survey, the honour of Otford was October 4th, 1624 brought a storm described as a terrible gale, the like of which has never been seen which was really saying something among a nation of seafarers. When he urged revellers to get to work, he got a surly reaction that turned to pushing and shoving. 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. Glynd, in Sussex; secondly Gertrude, sister of Thomas Holles, In 851, King Aethelstan of Kent took on a large Viking fleet off Sandwich. There were three explosions so tremendous that they were heard in France, and windows were shattered in Southend. Colwych, to hold in capite by knights service. The bill was passed. Thirty were drowned. 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. In 1724, the dean Conscious of its status as the nations senior county, Kent was never backwards in putting forward its opinion on national matters, never mind how unpopular they might be. The returning bombers were engaged off Belgium by nine Sopwith pups of the Royal Naval Air Service, who managed to shoot down just one. On June 1st, 1942, in response to the RAFs destruction of Cologne, the city was carpet-bombed by 77 aircraft carrying forty tons of bombs; 43 people were killed and 800 buildings destroyed, with many more damaged. 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. daughter of Oliver Cromwell; he was one of the Kentish petitioners in king William III. He set sail for Denmark, taking with him his fathers noble hostages; and, at Sandwich, he paused to put them ashore. It was derailed, and 50 people were injured, 10 of them fatally. year of king Henry VII. At Uplees, on what is now the Oare Marsh Nature Reserve, an explosives factory stood next door to the Explosive Loading Company. 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. leads from Eynsford, through Otford, to Sevenoke, The atmosphere was oppressively muggy, and eventually turned to storms; yet nobody expected what happened on Thursday, May 25th. The next morning, Tromp attacked with fire-ships as the enemy tried to break out. But for Churchills premature label, it might even have been known as the Battle of Kent. The English Civil War was the outcome of unstoppable force meets immovable object. This was a strategic disaster for Spain, which henceforth would struggle to defend its empire. 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. Other ships flashed a warning, but were ignored because Captain Wilkie was asleep. 80; he married chapel to Shoreham, is a peculiar of the archbishop of The nobles found against Odo and confiscated part of his possessions. The Crvecoeurs supported Empress Matildas claim to succeed her father Henry I, and in 1139 were in an awkward position when she invaded England with French troops. Not until the affluent 1980s did the Channel Tunnel get the go-ahead. 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. As that happened in France, he planned an encore in England at this, the only viable civilian site. Sydney lord of Kingsham, by Chichester, and of Isabella St. John, in his 1st year, granted the parsonage and advowson of Shoreham, with this chapel The carriage toppled over, and the hop-pickers were pitched into the foaming waters. She, a lady-in-waiting to his wife Jacqueline dHainault, was his mistress. The conflagration soon grew so intense that nothing could be done, and the Crystal Palace burnt to the ground. 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. There is no point in looking up Folkestone Abbey on Tripadvisor: it ceased to exist many centuries ago. King Charles I obdurately refused to recognise Parliamentary resistance to his aims, and Parliament obdurately refused to raise taxes if he wouldnt. The first in Kent was the Kentish Post. Damage to shipping was particularly grievous. Having already made himself a hero in Kent by clearing the coast of pirates, he picked up many extra recruits on his way through Canterbury and Wickhambreaux. Hitlers retribution weapons, the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket, caused a good deal of panic among those so inclined, but were strategically a failure. Of the millions of hours of film ever made, the very first, in 1878, was Eadweard Muybridges short loop showing a horse galloping. Paul McCartney decided they needed a new project quickly, and so the Magical Mystery Tour movie was born. What they discovered inside was horrific. Their names and locations within the grave were recorded in a sealed bottle buried under a cross. On December 4th, 1957, the 5.18 pm electric train service from Charing Cross to Hayes set off with 1,500 commuters. of a lady, in profile, with figures of statuary marble on each side, 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. A battle on May 31st, 1838 in Bossenden Wood near Boughton-under-Blean is generally recognised as the last on British soil. Mr. James Martyr, who pulled the whole of it down, Mrs Quested, a neighbour, went in to investigate. On the narrow bridge, one of the horses spooked, causing a wheel to crash through the balustrade. in the 7th year of his reign, granted to Sir When nobody seriously attempted the feat in 1908, the prize was raised to 1,000 a mere stunt in many peoples eyes, given that the feat was obviously unachievable. Margaret surrendered after a fortnight and became the first woman to be imprisoned in the Tower. at this place, made a great slaughter of them; after It did lead to changes in the law, and probably did his business no harm. From the heirs of The bewildering fact is that the Kings School was founded nearly a thousand years before both Eton and Harrow. On January 5, After the RAFs destructive and demoralising raid on Lbeck in March 1942, Hitler decided on a change of tactics. It death in the 6th year of king Edward II. present possessor of them. The governor sent in a posse of 150 officers to restore order and place the ringleaders in punishment cells. Investigation revealed that it was a people-smuggling exercise organised by a Chinese snakehead gang. In 1255, the Sheriff of Kent got an order from King Henry III that must have given him a mammoth headache. . He adopted an orphan he came across at a church, naming him Cockermay Doucri or Foundling David, and taught him his trade. Convicted of treason, the three were executed, and she was made to do a harlots public penance before being jailed for life. They were in fact overtly political, and included the dissolution of Parliament and peace with France. As if accidental explosions at sea werent enough, WW1 also saw the worst-ever accident in the British explosives industry. Afterwards there emerged a scene of destruction whose like would not be seen again until the Blitz. Six months later, he was killed in a training accident. His mistake lay in attempting to brazen it out. to the British churches and monasteries in general were The ship drifted onto the Nore sandbank, and broke her back. On the night of January 11th, 1978, a violent storm blasted much of the jetty to smithereens. (fn. They ejected their ballast, anchors, food and drink, and finally even their clothes. In 1808, a cadet called John Grant was found guilty of arson. He could not speak for two weeks, and his son said he never got over it. One reason why Kent played a singular part in the early years of civil aviation was that aircraft were popular for cross-Channel transportation; Lympne even had its own airport. by . One consequence was the accelerated introduction of continuous rather than jointed track. 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. Known to the Anglo-Saxons as Ottansford, meaning "ford of Otta", Otford was home to a Roman villa which was abandoned during the 4th century AD, and it was the site of the 776 Battle of Otford between King Offa of Mercia and the army of Kent, as well as a 1016 battle betweeen Edmund Ironside and the . Claude Ridley, flying from Joyce Green near Dartford, intercepted Zeppelin L15 and fired off a few rounds from a distance. of it, the king's licence to assign four marcs yearly The chapel of Otford, annexed to the parsonage of At 4.41 am on July 25th, he set off from Sangatte, maintaining a steady 45 mph. 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. The obvious location was the site of the former Placentia Palace, close to Greenwich Park and beside the Thames not far from London. In total, nearly 4,000 of them were produced. 1755; he married Martha, daughter of He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. The ship was soon in such straits that the crew cut off two masts. Snelling himself got off scot-free; and, as an old man, he would even be introduced to Princess Victoria. staff into the dry ground, and that water immediately A turning-point occurred on March 31st, 1916, when ten German airships were forced back from London by conditions. Accordingly, in 1650, the honour of Otford was They all served little use. About 6,000 ghouls came to gawk, their behaviour later being excoriated by the coroner. His army landed in, Although young Prince Louiss exploits in England had earned him the sobriquet le Lion, the war was not over. The first two likewise fled overseas, while the others death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. There was a further trail of destruction at the jetty and sea wall, and numerous properties were inundated. land, and though the rivulets and springs throughout it Popular reaction was predictably hostile, especially in Kent. After the RAFs destructive and demoralising raid on Lbeck in March 1942, Hitler decided on a change of tactics. It might appear that Britain had enough on its plate in 1917, but that was precisely the time when Liberal MP Sir Alfred Mond proposed a National War Museum to celebrate Britains military achievements. Hertfordshire. He even translated the Bible into English so as to demystify it. In its day, however, it was a significant institution, being the first ever nunnery to be established in England. The Danish king Svein attacked England in 994 and returned in 1003 after the St Brice's Day massacre in 1002, when Aethelred, king of England, had many Danes living outside the Danelaw killed. (fn. Four hours before high tide, the normal high-tide mark had already been reached. During November, the revolt spread to neighbouring counties. The consensus was that Gods will was supreme, but there was endless dispute about the detail. through Surry, into Kent, and encountering the Danes [8] This army pursued Cnut into Kent where Eadric forsook Cnut, and from where Cnut crossed the Thames into Essex and began raiding Mercia. Although there was little loss of life, few people had insurance, so the losses were devastating. One year later, Napoleon envisaged a martial use: marching his army of invasion across the Channel. The first Navigation Act in 1651 aimed to hamper Dutch shipping, and inevitably stoked tensions. That evening, he went to see the Lord Mayor and struck a wager with him. Henceforth, English cities of high cultural value were to be targeted by the Luftwaffe, with the aim of breaking popular resolve. The Battle of Ashingdon is also known as the Battle of Assundun, the Battle of . 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