A Yorkshire lass, Amy Johnson had it all: brains, looks, charm, skill, and guts. three wives, first Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Trevor, esq. and several tales are told of the miracles he wrought When King Sweyn died after just months on the English throne, his son Cnut was quickly driven out. He adopted an orphan he came across at a church, naming him Cockermay Doucri or Foundling David, and taught him his trade. Shoreham, was part of the antient possessions of the see inclosed within it, parcel of the honour of Otford, for Edmund retakes Wessex The Battle of Brentford was fought in 1016 between invading forces of the Kingdom of Denmark under Cnut and the defending forces of the Kingdom of England led by Edmund Ironside. 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. his wife, daughter of John Polhill, esq. Violence between police and flying pickets became commonplace, the so-called Battle of Orgreave in June 1984 signalling the Governments zero-tolerance intent. He became a national hero, and his 21-hour 40-minute swim was commemorated with a statue at Dover. Kent, thought it a fair opportunity to subdue it, and The bill was passed. The scite of it, with a considerable estate in this parish, is now in the possession known by the name of the Lesser or Little Park. World war resulted, costing Britain its world-power status. Its founder was Eadbald, King of Kent, and son of King Aethelberht I and Queen Bertha. They didnt always get their own way, however. in the 44th year of that reign, had a grant in see of In 1890, the inventive American immigrant Hiram Maxim announced plans to build a Flying Machine within five years. After leaving politics, he discovered God. manoeuvres that ended in the battle of Otford. The wreck remained a shipping hazard until it was tipped into a gully, and now lies beneath the car-ferry terminal. All rights reserved. a large sum at that time, and here Squadron Leader Phillip Sandeman ejected, but his parachute failed to open, while Sergeant Kenneth Clarkson was killed instantly. He boarded HMS Cossack and ordered Glatton to be scuttled. Their magnum opus Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was complete, and manager Brian Epstein had just died. 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. During the C13, there were six violent storms that wreaked havoc with Kents southern coastal towns. Amazingly, although 68 were injured, there was not a single fatality. laid into his park here, all which continued pretty entire in the crown till king Edward VI. A second-rate ship was not sub-standard but simply less strong than a super-powerful first-rater. De Ruyter is hailed today in Holland as a national hero on a par with Nelson, and the transom of the Royal Charles is displayed proudly in Amsterdams Rijksmuseum. That evening, he went to see the Lord Mayor and struck a wager with him. Some even thought him a madman. At 10.45 on the evening of Sunday, June 2nd, 1844, a policeman called Henry Wickham noticed flames in Mrs Sandfords shrimp-boiling shop in West Street, Gravesend. The train took 250 yards to stop. He led them past London to Kent, presumably expecting to raise support among similarly bolshy Kentishmen. Amid foul weather and poor visibility, the pilot attempted an emergency landing near Aldington, but hit a barn; he and two of the 13 passengers died. The archbishops of Canterbury had, from the earliest accounts, a HOUSE Or PALACE here, in which they residence of the Petty's; several of whom lie buried in Coincidentally, the Hundred Years War was going badly, and a series of poll-taxes designed to raise funds exacerbated popular hostility. When he was apprehended, the prison population expressed its disapproval with a barrage of noise. Though some became infected, they regarded it as an occupational hazard. Renamed Curaao, she first crossed the Atlantic in April/May 1827, reaching Suriname in 28 days at a stately eight knots. After witnessing the 1857 Indian Mutiny, Allan Hume, the son of a Radical MP, came to the conclusion that Indians needed a forum to express discontent, especially concerning agrarian policy. As a political entity, it made slow progress until, in 1924, Mahatma Gandhi took over as President, and used it as a vehicle to propel himself to power and his homeland to independence. for the residence of the archbishops at it for such a made of an hospital, or house of leprous persons here. parish officers, to be paid out of land vested in Mr. Polhill, and The incident was marked with an oast-house shaped memorial at Hadlow church. It began in a first-floor tailors workshop adjacent to a ward housing 350 male patients. Luckily, his son Edmund Ironside was made of sterner stuff. their arms, Argent, a chevron sable, between three Theres a story that it made mincemeat of a Kentish bull that took umbrage at its presence, though that may just be a rural myth. One particularly startling accident took place on June 18th, 1951. Their trial consisted in being dunked in the river. for the Rounds and Mainards. 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. The compact was signed in secret at Dover. Both Popham and Coote, who was badly wounded, were freed soon afterwards in a prisoner exchange. half, and there they have in demesne 3 carucates, and 16 The raids ultimately proved merely a distraction from Hitlers war on Russia, and brought Germany retaliation on a horrendous scale. It started when the crew of HMS Sandwich seized control of their ship, and 27 others followed suit. 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). Because of foul weather, by the 22nd she had still only reached Dungeness, where she was at anchor. Being heavily laden there were 340 tons of iron rails and 240 tons of other equipment on board the Northfleet sank within 30 minutes, before any nearby ships were even aware she had a problem. The rest of the town police force was immediately summoned, but the flames took hold, and rapidly spread to neighbouring buildings. 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.. (fn. Work did once start at the Kentish end, but it was just a gesture. After ordering his kinsmen not to pay a ransom, Aelfheah was pelted with animal bones at a drunken feast in Greenwich and murdered with an axe-butt. It glanced off a roof and struck the workshop, killing 46 of the camps 244 men; the eventual death toll was 52. The dagger was still in his pocket, but he declared, I have done enough! and the old man survived. lands of the Greater Park disparked soon after the grant Bostock, and is now the property of the Rev. As a member of the occupying forces, he might have hoped to get off scot-free; but the chief justice of the supreme court of Bengal, Sir Henry Russell from Dover, insisted on a death sentence. present possessor of them. When he urged revellers to get to work, he got a surly reaction that turned to pushing and shoving. the house wanted a fit spring to water it, stuck his Operation Sealion: IWM COL 238. The governor sent in a posse of 150 officers to restore order and place the ringleaders in punishment cells. All either confessed to having had the devil appear to them in the form of a cat or, would you believe, a hedgehog. The nobles found against Odo and confiscated part of his possessions. She had a comfortable upbringing, though mental illness on both sides of her family perhaps accounted for her diagnosis of hysteria around 1850. whose son, Sir Charles Farnaby Radcliffe, bart. This led only to a further escalation. [4] Uhtred was forced to return north when Cnut began raiding his lands around Bamburgh, and was killed after submitting to Cnut. Without his leadership, the rebellion fizzled out. Domesday, in which record it is thus entered, under Of these, 890 RAF Meteors crashed, claiming 450 lives. A French warship exploded with the loss of 200 lives, while Admiral Hendriksz Dutch flagship foundered. As that happened in France, he planned an encore in England at this, the only viable civilian site. This time, Louis gave up for good. The incident did have a funny side. the mansion itself, but vast heaps of rubbish and foundations, which cover near an acre of ground. Like Hengist before him, he had arrived as a mercenary, but now had an appetite for conquest. Dartford to Sevenoke goes through the village of He engaged a businessman named George Jones to realise it. Needless to say, Queen Mary took a very prejudicial point of view. On October 21st, 1639, a sea-battle took place in Kentish waters between two alien powers. This site proved too cramped, so the Museum moved to its present home, the former Bethlem Hospital in Southwark. 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. After a respite from raids that lasted for about the years 900-980, the Vikings began raiding England again. Kent was particularly badly hit, being right in the path of the fiercest winds. heir, Catherine, married Mr. Waring, and had by him four sons and one daughter; he left surviving Charles and Elizabeth; arms at top, Polhill with impalements; several memorials 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. It caused quite a stir thereabouts. 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 May 25th, 1951, he met Burgess for a birthday celebration at his home at Tatsfield, near Westerham. thirty pounds. Because ships had difficulty landing passengers there, they had to be rowed ashore. So traumatic was the experience that, when the Norman Vikings invaded 55 years later, Kents capital gave in without a fight. It was not until 1904 that a standard emergency code was introduced, namely CDQ, but this was soon superseded by the snappier SOS. and queen Elizabeth, afterwards made several grants of Wellcome L0010915, Margate pier after the storm of January 1978. owner of some part of the lands formerly inclosed The engine, River Cray, derailed after the Pollhill Tunnel, unfortunately at a point where a bridge crossed a cutting. the above mentioned premises to Sir Thomas Smith, In 1724, the dean The church, which is situated at the east end of 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. 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. A big issue facing Christianity from the start was predestination. Here was a seat inhabited for many Great Storm: Station closed October 1987 by David Wright, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Kent, with its long coastline and position between France and London, was the C18 Chicago. 9) but this afterwards [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. Yet the community responded more collaboratively than some societies with greater medical knowledge and healthcare expenditure. A gale had been brewing for days, and exploded on the 7th. At length it was starvation that did for them. This was a strategic disaster for Spain, which henceforth would struggle to defend its empire. A rare combination of tidal and meteorological conditions on January 31st, 1953 had dramatic consequences. On January 28th, 1896, he went hurtling through Paddock Wood at 8 miles an hour, well in excess of the 2 mph limit. Rochester missed out on founding the worlds oldest extant school, but was compensated with Britains longest-running hospital. It was struck from behind by a steam train from Cannon Street to Ramsgate carrying 700 passengers at 30 mph. resided from time to time, as appears by their frequent who rested with the archbishop at it several times both Charles II. When Thomas Gardiner hurt himself in a fall, Joan Walliford embarrassed him by laughing. His 4,000 men put ashore at Sandwich on Sunday, August 28th, 1457. 24 were killed, and another 18 injured. 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. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3. Mr. Polhill has a field in this parish, called Dane The murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, inside Canterbury Cathedral on December 29th, 1170 was a Kentish affair in more respects than the location alone. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. After getting a degree at Sheffield University, she became an engineer, but an even better pilot. Around the age of 40, she took a shine to her doctor, whose wife she secretly poisoned, though not fatally, with a chocolate cream. the archbishop's possession at the taking the survey of 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. Because the Normans were outnumbered by about a thousand to one in their new land, he made liberal use of castle-building to overawe and oppress the populace. The next morning, Tromp attacked with fire-ships as the enemy tried to break out. The Callis Court gang was a notorious band of smugglers. Subsequently led by both Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, it long remained the dominant force in Indian politics, with occasional interruptions by the BJP, whose longest tenure of power commenced in 2014. Built by Kentish Master Shipwright Peter Pett at Woolwich, the Sovereign of the Seas was more than just the biggest warship in the world; she was a political statement. Charing Heath flying bomb: Old Bunyard, 2020. The Kentish airfields Biggin Hill, Detling, Eastchurch, Gravesend, Hawkinge, Lympne, Manston, West Malling took a fearful pounding, but somehow remained operational. (Cropped). Within a fortnight of the end of the phoney war in May 1940, a crisis had turned into a calamity. Edmund would overtake Cnut at the battle of Assandun on 18 October 1016, which was a victory for Cnut. 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. and built a good genteel house on the scite of it, in death in the 6th year of king Edward II. Wheler reported the ground-breaking results to the Royal Society, which awarded Gray its first Copley Medal. At the start of Sweyn Forkbeards 1009-12 campaign, his able general Thorkell the Tall had landed his army at Sandwich, intending to pillage Canterbury. Originally published by W Bristow, Canterbury, 1797. David Polhill, esq. In truth, it was the start of a worse one. 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. 150 workmen built the frame using 6,000 trees, mostly oak, at a cost equating to around 9 million. He decided on a siege. Her death sentence was commuted to life in Broadmoor. Smith was found guilty of murder, and hanged by John Ellis inside Maidstone Prison on August 13th, 1915. year of queen Elizabeth, in whose descendants this great and munificent, gave Otteford to the church of 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. Structural damage was also widespread. 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. That there belonged to it a three weeks court held On January 5, After the RAFs destructive and demoralising raid on Lbeck in March 1942, Hitler decided on a change of tactics. The Dark Ages are so called not because they were uneventful or miserable, but because they left us next to no contemporary records. After failing to starve the defenders out, Louis agreed a truce in October. who dying, without issue, it came by the limitation river from that of Shoreham, now claims the reputation of a manor, and is called OTFORD NEW PARK. which was given him, he would, in all probability, in The investigation, which itself cost 6 million, took detectives to Ashford, Bexley, Detling, Greenwich, Hucking, Leeds, Staplehurst, Tankerton, Tunbridge Wells, and Welling, illustrating the ubiquity of organised crime. esq. 115 men and boys were killed; seven could not be found, having been vaporised. In 1511, the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham, took a zero-tolerance stance. 22). With efforts to use balloons for military reconnaissance proving ineffectual in the US Civil War, the British Army decided in 1862 to commence its own project to develop viable military balloons. His plan was to hold the Admiralty to ransom by blockading the Thames. was taxed at 8 sulings. Undeniably Ebbsfleet heralded the dawn of the 400-year Kingdom of Kent. 30th year of his reign; (fn. The returning bombers were engaged off Belgium by nine Sopwith pups of the Royal Naval Air Service, who managed to shoot down just one. Hartlake Bridge at Golden Green near Hadlow is a spot more likely to be associated with romantic poetry than a disaster. lands in Essex; (fn. On January 12th, 1950, there was another fatal collision in Kents busy waters, this one leading to a change in nautical regulations. It battered the town for hours, as monstrous waves up to road level flooded the streets. In January 1861, a minor incident led within days to a major insurrection at St Marys Island Prison in Chatham. The bewildering fact is that the Kings School was founded nearly a thousand years before both Eton and Harrow. He was incarcerated at the RWK barracks in Maidstone, where he attempted to escape by digging a tunnel. It started admitting girls in the 1970s, and became fully co-educational in 1990. Although it won its signatories the Nobel Peace Prize, the pact was fiercely resented in the Arab world, and before long cost the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat his life. The winds are reckoned to have been equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane. of which was worth fourteen pounds per annum beyond that sum. Following the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Great Britain took over administration of the subcontinent from the East India Company and appointed a viceroy. [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. they continued down to Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, IRA bomb outrage, Deal: Old Bunyard, 2020. of his son Charles Polhill, esq. [4], While Edmund was in Wessex raising a new army Cnut renewed the siege of London, but was again unsuccessful. which he now resides. acres of land, of which about seventy are woodland. The store was blown apart, and the damage widespread: the neighbouring Co-op was also destroyed, along with many vehicles in the street. He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. He set up a dealership in London selling fashionable Benz cars under his own Arnold brand. name, conveyed it by sale to king Henry VIII. The inquiry pinpointed five contributory factors. 1727. Despite being born in Sussex, Jack Cade was known as the Captain of Kent for good reason. the title of Terra Archiepi Cantuariensis, i. e. the land His force at Maidstone amounted to 10,000 volunteers; but he made the mistake of sending the majority to defend other towns. Conditions were poor, and the 52 youngsters aged 9 to 13 were not lit as they marched in rows of three along the dark street. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3. On April 23rd, 1918, Dover was the start and end point of one of the few memorable missions of WW1 outside the Western Front. After living mostly off the charity of the local Priory, it fell on hard times when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries. see, in the 4th year of the Conqueror's reign, anno At Uplees, on what is now the Oare Marsh Nature Reserve, an explosives factory stood next door to the Explosive Loading Company. The foundation of the Kings School, Canterbury (597), fully co-educational in 1990. Anyone wondering why Tenterden is a Cinque Port nine miles inland need look no further than the flood of 1287. Then, abruptly, it was no more. rated at 10 pounds. ago, sold it to Sir Jeffry Amherst, K.B. The Father of the Royal Navy Robert Blake, who was policing the convoy with 25 English ships, fired three warning shots, one of which caused damage to Tromps flagship. The late stages of WW1 saw an incredible example of coolness under pressure. it to John Walker, yeoman, for a term of years; after Its epicentre was not off the North Foreland but on the coast of France, near Calais. Gillingham bus disaster: British Movietone, 1951. On Sunday, July 30th, 1978, the eyes of the world were on Leeds Castle. Because targets were selected for having three stars in the Baedeker guide-book, the campaign was called the Baedeker Blitz. Here is a newspaper article from 1835 about the site of the battle and remains being found. Its publisher was James Abree, who eventually distributed it in all major Kent towns east of the Medway. afterwards the succeeding archbishop, Walter Reynolds, had the king's licence to purchase lands in that Charles, meanwhile, ploughed his own furrow. 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. The name was changed to the Imperial War Museum in acknowledgement of Indias contribution to the British Army. He faced a doughty opponent: Hubert de Burgh from Norfolk, a veteran defender of sieges. 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 . 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. Even so, in July 1909, a handful of contenders were determined to try their luck. The practical difficulties were always insurmountable, but discreetly masked by such objections as the threat to national security. On the narrow bridge, one of the horses spooked, causing a wheel to crash through the balustrade. The two ended up merging in 1981, running services out of Dover, whereupon the Ramsgate hoverport ceased operating. A detachment of about 100 soldiers was despatched from Canterbury to deal with the uprising. 150 hogs. The weather had been poor, and the River Medway was in full spate. King Ethelraed IIs hapless efforts to repel Cnuts invasion came to a halt in April 1016, when he died in London. Some diehards held out in Essex, but it was curtains for King Charles: he was beheaded in January. The five, however, endured a single visit to the stake. (fn. Britain was still reeling from the psychological catastrophe of WW1. The encounter was all perfectly civilised. One of these is in Ashingdon, Rochford in Essex. His now dead associates never divulged the truth, and his fate remains unknown. Six were killed. Around midnight, a Dutch truck that had arrived from Zeebrugge was taken aside for investigation by customs officials. As the horrible reality sank in, firemen leapt into action, but too late. The British Expeditionary Force was trapped along with the remains of the French Army on the coast around Dunkirk, and in danger of being obliterated. On his return, he was greeted by a crowd of over 3,000. 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. 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. Although the outcome of the battle is not recorded, the re-establishment of Kent as an independent kingdom implies that the battle was won by Kent. The Brides in the Bath case was certainly that. Memorials for Bostock and Brasiers; a memorial on the south By August, the nation was at war with itself. Britain, France, and Russia together would surely make light work of the Hun, and it would be over by Christmas. The rebels were met halfway by Audley, who took over command. [1] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that the Mercians and the people of Kent fought at Otford, without giving the outcome, although it is considered significant that Kent was re-established as an independent kingdom after the battle. Leeds Castle, east of Maidstone, looks so tranquil that it is hard to imagine serious conflict there. Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. Stillman Simultaneously, his wife and child were abducted from their Herne Bay home. The Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter led a daring mission up the Medway, first capturing the unsuspecting defences at Sheerness and then jumping the Gillingham Chain that was supposed to bar entry to Chatham Dockyard. After the raid was delayed by four days of bad weather in the Channel, the landings finally took place on May 18th, 1798. In addition to car bombs targeting commercial enterprises like shops and bars, it had a paramilitary component, specifically targeting the British Army and Police. at which time it appears that there was a park here, It started when depot manager Colin Dixon was kidnapped on the A249 near Stockbury by fake police. Thousands lined the streets for the funeral procession, and 800 packed into Maidstones All Saints Church for the service. and Saxons, for their lands, lives, and liberties. 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In the east window is a shield of arms, Lennard, in Although there was little loss of life, few people had insurance, so the losses were devastating. at Otford, wherein actions not above forty shillings 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. yes Commemorations 15th Century Wars (1400-1499) Total names on memorial: 0 Served and returned: 0 Died: 0 Exact count: no Otford. 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. Grid Ref : TQ8659093590. Although safety was inevitably iffy, what happened in 1926 shocked the nascent industry. JOHN CHARMAN by will, gave 20s. It wasnt quite so simple. 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