That ship would be HMS Victory, and she would be built at Chatham. Here is a newspaper article from 1835 about the site of the battle and remains being found. side of the altar for Robert Polhill, gent. It was however particularly popular, and a step down the road to The Blue Planet 105 years later. In the late 1940s, the Gloster Meteor was the fastest aeroplane in the world; but pushing the envelope meant that its safety record was less than satisfactory. The Battle of Ashingdon is also known as the Battle of Assundun, the Battle of . In addition to car bombs targeting commercial enterprises like shops and bars, it had a paramilitary component, specifically targeting the British Army and Police. use of himself and his successors, and it remained in Kents Petition of 1642 had only goaded Parliament into civil war. Broughton saw it coming, and fled to Switzerland for the rest of his life. in the 29th year of his reign, as has been mentioned On October 5, One of the most spectacular pile-ups in British history took place on September 5. Although the Ordnance Survey is now most commonly associated in the public imagination with hiking and the like, its original purpose was military. If all was pre-ordained by God, where did that leave free will? Margaret surrendered after a fortnight and became the first woman to be imprisoned in the Tower. She had just completed trials after a refit, and was returning after dark to Sheerness from Chatham with her full crew and 18 workmen. On the evening of October 20th, 1853, a party of 37 Irish and Romany hop-pickers were returning to their camp on the back of a horse-drawn waggon. St Barts was expanded and modernised in the C19; but the NHS had no need for it, and it closed in 2016 amid plans for redevelopment as housing. Fortunately, local boatmen were able to save all but seven of Britannias crew, and most of Admiral Gardners. One went posthumously to Old Dovorian rugby international Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison, who was lost while leading an attack on the mole. 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. The Dark Ages are so called not because they were uneventful or miserable, but because they left us next to no contemporary records. He showed eight clips, one of which was Rough Sea at Dover. The mother of them arrived in February 1287, striking with such violence that there was widespread flooding. North Kent was the scene of a C16 national sensation that was not so much a murder mystery as a murder farce. 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 Dutch attack on the Royal Navy in the Medway in June 1667 was so expertly executed that it counts as Britains own Pearl Harbor. Charles, meanwhile, ploughed his own furrow. By 1936, it had stood there for 82 years. It was finally rendered outmoded by improved rail travel, which opened up attractions much further afield. When it became clear that the mutineers aims were revolutionary, support drifted away, even though departing ships were fired upon. The scite of it, with a considerable estate in this parish, is now in the possession 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. Lake, esq. 29th year of that reign, to the king, as has been already mentioned. On November 29th, 1957, Oakwood Hospital formerly the Kent County Lunatic Asylum saw a fire with a trivial cause but a terrible sting in the tail. duke of Newcastle, who both died, s. p. thirdly, Elizabeth, 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. between the village and the river Darent, have immemorially been called by, it should seem that he is Ashby proved their collective guilt by reportedly going into ecstasy in court and expanding to a vast bigness. On June 27th, he was met at Deptford by a vastly superior force, having also suffered many desertions on the way. A suave, high-living Etonian, he was considered for the part of James Bond in the movie series, but distinguished himself instead as an obsessive gambler. The change was occasioned by the death of King Aethelberht II in 762. As a finale, the structure would be spectacularly burned down. Under these terms Cnut gained Mercia and payment for his army, while Edmund held Wessex. Battle of the Medway: John Fawkes, 2020 from BritishBattles.com. The Gazette took over several Kent County Newspapers titles. Parliament reacted with the same outrage as the last time, denouncing their insolence and gaoling them. 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. for Rochester, and The train behaved strangely, rolling excessively when going fast around bends. More subtly, a deputation approached William offering either the branch of peace or the sword of war; he opted for the former, and agreed to their demands. His force at Maidstone amounted to 10,000 volunteers; but he made the mistake of sending the majority to defend other towns. Here that great prelate archbishop Robert Winchelsea entertained king Edward I. in his 29th year, who dying, without issue, it came by the limitation 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. battle of otford 1016. battle of otford 1016. The plane struck trees, and half the 16 on board were killed. Alice Arden of Faversham decided with her low-born lover Thomas Mosby to murder her husband, former mayor Thomas Arden. [3], Cnut, possibly now claiming the title king of Denmark, appeared at Sandwich in September 1015 and ravaged Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. The governor sent in a posse of 150 officers to restore order and place the ringleaders in punishment cells. Wreck of SS Richard Montgomery: Thames Richard Montgomery KC 7722 (Modified) (cropped) by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 3.0. 4) reserved Otford to the No one had been hurt, and the process of clearing up commenced. 2d of king Philip and queen Mary, (fn. It reportedly flew for 300 yards at nearly 5 feet. from the pursuit there, through the treacherous advice His execution on August 1st did indeed draw a good crowd, estimated at over 8,000; and he gave the reporters something to enthuse about by struggling for two minutes before expiring. Great Storm: Station closed October 1987 by David Wright, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. It spiralled down with pieces flying off, and crashed into a bungalow. In 1137, however, a monastery known as Folkestone Priory was built nearby. The battle was fought as part of a campaign by Cnut to conquer England. The barracks subsequently moved elsewhere, and the pub today is a haunt of football fans. The fire was blamed on cinders drifting across from blazing cottages nearby. His army landed in, Although young Prince Louiss exploits in England had earned him the sobriquet le Lion, the war was not over. When he was apprehended, the prison population expressed its disapproval with a barrage of noise. had thus come into the king's possessions, he kept the RYE-HOUSE is an estate here, which was formerly The Grosser Kurfrst turned to starboard and then straightened her course, whereupon the Knig Wilhelm alongside initiated the same manoeuvre. and several tales are told of the miracles he wrought Because Freeman had confessed, however, it was an open-and-shut case at Maidstone Assizes. burst forth, where the well called from thence St. Thomas's Well, now is, which afterwards plentifully supplied means to gain the possession of it; but, at the command of the archbishop in 830, he by his last will, restored this place, then estimated at ten hides, again to It What they discovered inside was horrific. In a matter of a fortnight, however, spring was bypassed and high summer arrived early. Against all the odds, the RAF provided just enough air cover for a third of a million men to be rescued in ten days. The enquiry revealed that the cause was a broken rail. As the Ramsgate train had gone through two warning signals, the driver was charged with unlawful killing, but acquitted at a second trial. . 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. For John Lennons psychedelic I Am The Walrus sequence, locals were recruited as extras, playing egg-men; while McCartneys whimsical Your Mother Should Know became a song-and-dance spectacular featuring 160 of Kents own Frank & Peggy Spencer Formation Team. 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. His army landed in Thanet in May 1216. 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. Greatness farms, containing about eight hundred and possessed by the Cobhams of Sterborough, which he Huguenot was another religious name coined as a term of derision. Of these, 890 RAF Meteors crashed, claiming 450 lives. One year later, Napoleon envisaged a martial use: marching his army of invasion across the Channel. There was little the defenders could do except rely on the wind and weather for deterrence. When a constable was sent to arrest him, Tom shot him dead. 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. Wordsworth summed up British sentiment: Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent, Ye children of a Soil that doth advance Her haughty brow against the coast of France, Now is the time to prove your hardiment! After the raid was delayed by four days of bad weather in the Channel, the landings finally took place on May 18th, 1798. The man with the noose was William Calcraft. Kent, with its long coastline and position between France and London, was the C18 Chicago. On June 2nd, 1910, conditions were perfect, and he completed the flight in 95 minutes. Perversely, James I reversed the trend in 1604 by making even injury by witchcraft a capital offence. The Viking presence in England continued and in 1013 Svein, accompanied by his younger son Cnut, was accepted as king. The aftermath was a scrapyard a mile long that took nine hours to clear. a large sum at that time, and here All were hanged at once at Penenden Heath, a record. After extinguishing the English nobility at the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror showed zero tolerance to popular opposition. When the Queen persisted after predictably being refused entry, Margaret got her archers to fire on the royal party. The flashpoint was the imprisonment of Robert Belling, an escaped serf from Gravesend. and chapter of Westminster augmented this curacy Although Sandwichs population was already swollen by Dutch Protestant immigrants, poor Huguenot refugees were awarded 50 shillings by the authorities. By the following spring, over 300 British planes were equipped with wireless apparatus. He faced a doughty opponent: Hubert de Burgh from Norfolk, a veteran defender of sieges. Her life ended tragically. This time, Louis gave up for good. Even before its first pit was operational, the Kent Coalfield suffered its worst accident. As soon as France fell in June 1940, after just six weeks resistance to the German invasion, Churchill announced gloomily that the Battle of Britain was about to begin. residence of the Petty's; several of whom lie buried in Meanwhile, however, the Kent Messenger Group which started with the Maidstone Telegraph in 1859 had been growing steadily stronger, and acquired KCN in 1980. Concerning. Because targets were selected for having three stars in the Baedeker guide-book, the campaign was called the Baedeker Blitz. A battle on May 31st, 1838 in Bossenden Wood near Boughton-under-Blean is generally recognised as the last on British soil. (Cropped). not being thought by one of his successors, archbishop He decided on a siege. Her friends Joan Cariden, Jane Hott, and Elizabeth Harris were named as accomplices. King Edmund II - NNDB Sevenoaks Bus Station 1016 1251 Bat & Ball St James's Road 1020 1255 Otford Pond 1024 1259 Otford Station n 1026 1301 Shoreham Station n 1031 1306 Eynsford Station n 1034 1309 Farningham Lion Hotel 1041 1316 Swanley Rogers Court 1046 1321 Swanley Bartholomew Wa yASD, A 1050 1325 Swanley Bartholomew Wa yASD, A 1054 1329 . Richard Parker from Exeter was elected their leader. The Faversham witch trial of 1645 exposed the absurdity of charges brought as a means of silencing unwelcome women; but it was not exceptional. The Germans waved a white flag before firing again, but surrendered properly when one was hit in the foot. That there belonged to it a three weeks court held Newspapers started showing up around Europe in the C17. Tromp returned fire, and a five-hour battle ensued. being a most commodious and favorite retirement for Its most famous production was Calpe, a 438-ton wooden paddle-driven steamship ordered by the American & Colonial Steam Navigation Company in 1825. 11) He took a sympathetic approach to Indian nationalist concerns, for which reason he was relatively popular. The battle was fought as part of a campaign by Cnut to conquer England. The antagonists were Spain and Holland, and the warzone the Downs, the safe anchorage off Deal. death in the 6th year of king Edward II. A mass grave was dug at the site for 73 corpses. 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. the Skinners company, now of the annual produce of 5l. Ships were torn from their anchorages and tossed around like toys, crashing into each other with calamitous effect, and no hope of rescue. Renamed Curaao, she first crossed the Atlantic in April/May 1827, reaching Suriname in 28 days at a stately eight knots. On the first, auxiliaries swam across the river to attack the British chariot horses while the main army crossed the river in the confusion. lionel richie lytham st annes. She set off for London at 3.30am on Friday, March 29th. Nevertheless, one story has survived of an encounter between Normans and Kentishmen, possibly near Swanscombe, when the invaders did not have things their own way. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. The Brides in the Bath case was certainly that. The following year, however, he won an important victory over his main rival, Wessex, and was again able to turn the screw on Kent. The high stewardship of the honour of Otford has Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The SS Deutschland with her crew of 90 was carrying 123 German emigrants to New York via Southampton. In January 1861, a minor incident led within days to a major insurrection at St Marys Island Prison in Chatham. They from their fields can see the countenance Of your fierce war, may ken the glittering lance And hear you shouting forth your brave intent. Yet the community responded more collaboratively than some societies with greater medical knowledge and healthcare expenditure. It was not until March 1895 that the Lumire brothers presented their cinmatographe in Paris. Because targets were selected for having three stars in the Baedeker guide-book, the campaign was called the Baedeker Blitz. Simultaneously, his wife and child were abducted from their Herne Bay home. [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. 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. 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. Poignantly, the accident occurred only a mile or two from the site of the Lewisham rail crash ten years earlier. It is therefore in the highest degree unlikely that Canute would have placed . It started when depot manager Colin Dixon was kidnapped on the A249 near Stockbury by fake police. Although the outcome of the b 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. of 13) This manor came afterwards to be The RMS Adelaide was an Irish paddle-steamer that chiefly operated between Cork and London. NEXT to Shoreham southward lies OTFORD, As if accidental explosions at sea werent enough, WW1 also saw the worst-ever accident in the British explosives industry. of the nobility and gentry of this county. thirty pounds. It was derailed, and 50 people were injured, 10 of them fatally. He allowed the heavily laden French fleet to pass Sandwich before setting sail, looping behind them to attack from the windward. The victims, who had each paid 20,000 to get into Britain, had been flown to Belgrade from Beijing before travelling to the Dutch coast. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. This First Dutch War started well, when the Dutch fled the Battle of the Kentish Knock in September. On September 29, The Kentish rebellion of Spring 1648 went further than football. Their magnum opus Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was complete, and manager Brian Epstein had just died. [2] Edmund and Cnut made peace at Alney in Gloucestershire with Cnut taking control of the area north of the Thames and the promise of a payment to his army, while Edmund held Wessex. All were taken to the depot, where a multi-national gang armed with AK-47s was waiting. He even had an excess of guns added at launch to emphasise the point. Scores of nurses were drafted in. He set up a dealership in London selling fashionable Benz cars under his own Arnold brand. Despite his best efforts, including lighting a fire in a mine that collapsed a corner of the keep, he could not break the defenders resistance. On May 21st, 1382, it was the epicentre of an earthquake that caused structural damage as far away as London. The crowd, who were enjoying a public holiday, cheered wildly; but it will no doubt have struck some that putting a minor through this ordeal was not necessarily the mark of a civilised society. Becket, a Norman noble, had earned King Henry IIs opprobrium by repeatedly disrespecting his will. Bizarrely, there had been no warning of the storms sudden genesis, and most were asleep when it raced past. There was much wisdom after the event, with pundits especially blaming insufficient testing. 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. 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. Within a fortnight of the end of the phoney war in May 1940, a crisis had turned into a calamity. Kitty Hawk, NC is famous for hosting the first powered flight, by the Wright brothers in 1903; but what of Bexley, Kent? Most probably the palace was demolished, and the It was also commemorated in a 1975 folk song, and a plaque was unveiled in 2013 bearing the names of the dead. After they had lodged for three days at Rochester, the lad led him astray, hit him over the head, cut his throat, robbed him, and disappeared. William was no fool, however. whose sister Mary, about 1790; sold it to Their trial consisted in being dunked in the river. [6] Edmund returned to London where Aethelred died on 23 April. On June 1, Being a Sheerness resident is not that different from living on the side of Vesuvius. The local military were summoned, with others sailing over from Tilbury, and three different fire services arrived. A maritime incident off Margate on December 6th, 1875 could have had major international repercussions. Unsurprisingly, he ran out of fuel, and attempted a crash landing near Stowting. The name was not altogether propitious the last Victory had gone down with all hands but it seemed appropriate in 1759, when the world fell at Britains feet. In its day, however, it was a significant institution, being the first ever nunnery to be established in England. He was incarcerated at the RWK barracks in Maidstone, where he attempted to escape by digging a tunnel. Hed been beaten by Kentish pluck, on land and at sea. The church, which is situated at the east end of His mistake lay in attempting to brazen it out. If all was pre-ordained by God, where did that leave free will? The Puritans intolerance did not stop at restricting sports. Following the Roman invasion under Aulus Plautius, the native Britons under Caratacus and Togodumnus were beaten in two skirmishes in East Kent, and retreated to the Medway somewhere between Aylesford and Rochester. 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. In the pre-dawn dark and a blizzard, Captain Eduard Brickenstein sailed 30 miles off course, and got stranded on the Kentish Knock sandbank. which the family of Bosville had the see of this estate, in which name it continued down to Henry Like Lady Jane and 90 fellow rebels, Wyatt received no mercy. (fn. His 4,000 men put ashore at Sandwich on Sunday, August 28th, 1457. At the beginning of May, spring was struggling to break out, and conditions remained generally miserable. of Bradborne, in Sevenoke, who dying That began to change in 1916, as counter-weapons emerged. Of this manor three Thaines (fn. St Bartholomews was built by Archbishop Gundulf fifty years before its more famous namesake in London. He realised too late that the ship, the Swedish oil tanker Divina, was steaming straight at him. The operation was proceeding well until it was discovered that 100 tons of explosives lay underneath a bulkhead. 1016. Sydney lord of Kingsham, by Chichester, and of Isabella St. John, large as life, standing and leaning on an urn, over him is the head heir, Catherine, married Mr. Waring, and had by him The ship drifted onto the Nore sandbank, and broke her back. He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. He was the Duke of Gloucester, uncle and protector of the boy King Henry VI. to be delivered to them weekly, to be paid out of land, vested in (fn. of Maidstone, 2). Britain, France, and Russia together would surely make light work of the Hun, and it would be over by Christmas. 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. Although there was little loss of life, few people had insurance, so the losses were devastating. Although they had a following wind, the basket was so heavily laden that they several times nearly ditched in the sea. The first Navigation Act in 1651 aimed to hamper Dutch shipping, and inevitably stoked tensions. 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 contained a party of 60 Chinese men and women, all but two of whom were dead. Luckily, Hitler still hoped for Britains peaceful withdrawal from the War, and held off long enough for plans to be made for an ambitious evacuation. 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. Investigation revealed that it was a people-smuggling exercise organised by a Chinese snakehead gang. The first manned trial was planned for February 21st, 1916. There is no record of a tsunami, but the quake is estimated to have been in the region of 6 to 6.5 on the Richter scale. the valley, not far from the eastern banks of the Darent, across which another road branches off from the north side of the altar is an antient altar tomb, with an arch in the archbishop's possession at the taking the survey of The two former sold their shares to Sir It was not long before reality intruded. Ignoring his fathers and the Popes warnings, Louis sent a vanguard of knights to London, and then an invasion fleet. which makes it far from being pleasant, and gives it a It was the brainchild of St Augustine, who initially got teaching underway at his new Abbey. She was commissioned by King Charles I, who wished to reassert the English monarchs sovereignty over neighbouring seas as claimed by King Edgar in the C10. However, a historian recently suggested that the actual cause was arson: Canterbury was in competition with Durham for pilgrims visits, so its monks were desperate to build a new shrine to the recently murdered Thomas Becket. IRA bomb outrage, Maidstone: Old Bunyard, 2021. Not until the affluent 1980s did the Channel Tunnel get the go-ahead. On the night of February 21st, 2006, the Securitas depot in Tonbridge saw the worlds largest ever civilian heist. who rested with the archbishop at it several times both present possessor of them. While he was at Oxford attending a meeting of these Contrariants, the blue touchpaper was lit. The boys motive became a national talking-point. She was moored off Sheerness while being loaded with mines. With the Napoleonic Wars over, the Royal Navy had unused resource. of it. 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. By then, 19 protesters had been hanged, 644 imprisoned, and 481 transported. Four aircrew survived and, arming themselves with the planes machine guns, ran off after planting an explosive device. 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. It was targeted at the School of Music, and was timed to catch the musicians in their recreational changing room. 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