Kent was the scene of another unwanted record on June 18th, 2000. Witch hunters made a fortune drumming up business for the hangman. 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. Gillingham bus disaster: British Movietone, 1951. One particularly startling accident took place on June 18th, 1951. If all was pre-ordained by God, where did that leave free will? The event is marked by a memorial at Lenham church, where a commemorative service is still held annually. [2] With Aethelred sick, and Edmund at loggerheads with Eadric, Cnut faced little opposition, and by Christmas the people of Wessex had recognised Cnut as king and given him hostages. which he now resides. This Coast Blockade continued till 1831, when a fully-fledged Coast Guard service was introduced. villeins, with 11 borderers, having 4 carucates. the above family it passed at length by sale to George 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. Later that month, however, SS RF Matthews actually rammed the Lightship; this time, the message was for real. surveyed, when it was returned, that there belonged On the second, Hosidius Getas legion mounted a surprise attack. granted by the archbishop to king Henry VIII. The US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had called the meeting more in hope than expectation; yet it went off amiably enough and, incredibly, Egypt and Israel signed the historic Camp David Accords in Maryland seven weeks later. It was a false alarm, as the Elbe refloated. Incredibly, the Cathedral survived. That ship would be HMS Victory, and she would be built at Chatham. Although the outcome of the b With the first Civil War over and King Charles safely in custody, the Puritan-dominated Parliament was free to throw its ideological weight around. Rebels released radical preacher John Ball from Maidstone Gaol and marched on Rochester Castle, successfully freeing Belling. 30th year of his reign; (fn. 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. inclosed within it, parcel of the honour of Otford, for A century earlier, Henry VIII had introduced a more liberal Witchcraft Act that redefined the offence as criminal, not religious, and outlawed burning as the punishment. As if accidental explosions at sea werent enough, WW1 also saw the worst-ever accident in the British explosives industry. Only about 30 bodies were ever recovered. The consequences were shocking. 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. It acquired its present name from King Henry VIII, who granted it a royal charter in 1541 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. His incendiary rhetoric drew a gang of supporters who followed him on foot. The last Kent mine closed in 1989. The Northern Belles crew lashed themselves to the remaining mast and sat out the night in blizzard conditions. As they passed the swimming baths, a bus came up behind them with only its sidelights on. He was proclaimed King of England by his supporters, and went off to suppress much of the South, while John skulked in the West. 16). One victim was not found until later because his body had been blown onto a roof. By the village pond, also a roundabout, there are pubs, cafes . In 1549, however, the town was incorporated under Henry VIIIs short-lived son and successor Edward VI, permitting the establishment of a new grammar school at the Corpus Christi Hall in Earl Street. 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. palace excited the envy of the courtiers, passed it away, It was derailed, and 50 people were injured, 10 of them fatally. Though 200 men battled frantically to put it out, the flames spread to the building, so all were ordered out. 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. [4] Uhtred was forced to return north when Cnut began raiding his lands around Bamburgh, and was killed after submitting to Cnut. It was also commemorated in a 1975 folk song, and a plaque was unveiled in 2013 bearing the names of the dead. (Cropped, minor text edits). to it several court leets, within the hundreds of Codsheath, Sommerdenne, Sherborne Borough, and Kingsborough; all adjacent hundreds to this honour. The chapel of Otford, annexed to the parsonage of Archbishop Thomas Becket seems to have been Eight months after the collision, she was stopped off Dover and confiscated. Needless to say, 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. one hundred pounds per annum, the house and glebe It battered the town for hours, as monstrous waves up to road level flooded the streets. The English Channel alone stood in his way. An inquest suggested that Rudd was subject to depression, and not of sound mind. He overreached himself, however, and was killed at Smithfield. daughter of lord St. John, obt 1625; arms, a pheon; memorials At 7.53am, the charges exploded, igniting hundreds of 6- and 12-inch shells. The driver, John Sansom, reported afterwards that he saw nothing, but simply felt an impact. Around 5,000 Britons were killed, and 850 Romans. Edmund was forced to come to terms, and within a month was dead, by fair means or foul. Huguenot was another religious name coined as a term of derision. By the time the inferno was brought under control, nine boys aged 10 to 14 and six men were dead or dying. Arnold had to fork out 4/7/- altogether, equivalent to nearly 600 today, or else face seven days hard labour. Their names and locations within the grave were recorded in a sealed bottle buried under a cross. Edmund 'Ironside' recreation of 2nd Battle of Otford (1016) fame. Bostock, and is now the property of the Rev. We are so accustomed to the idea of smuggling as the pastime of romantic rogues that we overlook the savage reality. Henry Sidney, his park, called the Little Park of His father, a nephew of Lord Beaverbrook, was born in Canada, and his mother in Peshawar. The atmosphere was oppressively muggy, and eventually turned to storms; yet nobody expected what happened on Thursday, May 25th. north side of the altar is an antient altar tomb, with an arch in Some of Toms followers fled, but he was left with about 40 men armed with sticks. at this place, made a great slaughter of them; after The idea was suggested after the 1746 Battle of Culloden, when the British Army, seeking to suppress Jacobite rebels in the Scottish Highlands, required detailed maps. He circulated a manifesto called The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent, airing the peoples grievances. 168 people were killed, including 33 children, and another 122 injured. At twilight on September 3rd, 1878, on the Thames north-east of Woolwich, there occurred one of those accidents that warrant the description horrific. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. 2019, University of London. Domesday, in which record it is thus entered, under [2], During this time Eadric Streona, the ealdorman of Mercia, is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as having hindered the efforts of the English to resist the Viking invaders. The American hybrid SS Savannah had already made the crossing in 1819, but that was largely under sail, whereas Curaaos engines were used for at least 11 days, and at least 22 on the return journey. this church, after which it for some time remained uninhabited and dropping into ruin. it would have been but little known had it not been 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. She had a comfortable upbringing, though mental illness on both sides of her family perhaps accounted for her diagnosis of hysteria around 1850. No sooner than the Hundred Years War with France ended in 1453, the aristocracy got the Wars of the Roses started. Field, which most probably was the spot on which the In 1119, Robert de Crvecoeur had erected a stone fortress there possibly a motte and bailey on land that had been gifted by William II to his cousin Hamo. It was a signal for the sort of competitive mass brawl that infuriated the authorities. He equipped that ship, the East Goodwin Lightship, for radioing the South Foreland Lighthouse, which was instantly in touch with the Ramsgate lifeboat. Henceforth, English cities of high cultural value were to be targeted by the Luftwaffe, with the aim of breaking popular resolve. Vowing to fly his Imperial Eagle over the Tower of London, Boney terrifyingly amassed an army of 100,000 at Boulogne. Diggle calmly transferred to HMS Myngs, and at 8.15pm sent another torpedo through the hole. Edmund retakes Wessex When it became clear that the mutineers aims were revolutionary, support drifted away, even though departing ships were fired upon. This manor, lordship, and seignory of Otford coming thus into the king's possessions, appears thenceforth One that took place at Staplehurst on June 9th, 1865 took on a particular significance because of one noteworthy passenger on board: Charles Dickens. He set sail for Denmark, taking with him his fathers noble hostages; and, at Sandwich, he paused to put them ashore. 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. It was opened in 1692 at the behest of Queen Mary II, who liked the idea of a naval equivalent of the Chelsea Hospital for soldiers. mandates, dated from their manor house of Otford, William of Perth in Scotland was a well-to-do baker known for his kindness. [6] Edmund returned to London where Aethelred died on 23 April. south isle, on the south side, is a mural monument, of elegant At 9.16, it derailed at 70 mph between Hither Green and Grove Park. So total was the surprise that the Kings key ships were captured, along with their cannon, and Warwick was able to land his army at Sandwich. The ship was soon in such straits that the crew cut off two masts. The Battle of Otford was a battle fought in 776 between King Offa of Mercia and the Jutes of Kent at Otford in the English county of Kent. At Otford, he won a sterling victory that saw the invaders fleeing to Sheppey. 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. After decades of low wages and high taxes, the spread of threshing machines was the last straw for farmworkers. On the night of November 30th, a small fire was detected. Their ready admission to such nonsense suggests a good deal of coercion, but it was enough to see them arraigned. Sandwich, which had been Englands biggest trading port outside London, never got over it. The project came in 80% over budget, the tunnel was long underused, and it is most familiar now for problems associated with illegal immigration. The Polhills afterwards became owners of this Two columns of flames seconds apart leapt 300 feet into the air, marking the spot where the 395-foot ship had lain moments before. She, a lady-in-waiting to his wife Jacqueline dHainault, was his mistress. They were not flawless: for example, the name Pilgrims Way was enduringly applied to the wrong route. It only brought him a temporary reprieve. Rochester missed out on founding the worlds oldest extant school, but was compensated with Britains longest-running hospital. With Maidstone Prison having opened by 1831, it was hoped that public hangings there would attract big town-centre crowds. Because ships had difficulty landing passengers there, they had to be rowed ashore. river from that of Shoreham, now claims the reputation of a manor, and is called OTFORD NEW PARK. As crowds watched from the clifftops, three rescue boats put out. The Navy put on a brave face, awarding eight Victoria Crosses. The French successfully undermined the, Whatever King Edward IIs other vices, the one that gave rise to the greatest antagonism was his indulgence of the gangster-like Despenser family. His now dead associates never divulged the truth, and his fate remains unknown. The RAF got the Gloster Meteor flying by July 1944, too late to have any great impact. Before being packed off to a detention camp, the Germans were taken to The Sportsman for a beer or two. Against all the odds, the RAF provided just enough air cover for a third of a million men to be rescued in ten days. Other ships flashed a warning, but were ignored because Captain Wilkie was asleep. Broughton went on to serve in two Parliaments; but, after Oliver Cromwell died and the monarchy was restored, there came a reckoning. Unable to turn to starboard for fear of grounding, he went instead to port. 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. 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. 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. Printed copies of the signed petition were distributed. Operation Sealion: IWM COL 238. OTFORD PARISH is about nine miles in circumference, and contains about two thousand four hundred half, and there they have in demesne 3 carucates, and 16 He married a string of women at least nine to extract money from them, whatever it took. The Church reacted in the normal manner of centralised authority, by declaring this challenger a devil and his followers idiots. and Saxons, for their lands, lives, and liberties. The carriage toppled over, and the hop-pickers were pitched into the foaming waters. It lies for the greatest part of it in a low damp situation, His first message was Hello Furnie. The Irish Republican Armys 28-year campaign of terror was a war of attrition intended to wear down HM Governments resolve. 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. Archbishop Deane, who came to the see in the 16th 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. Bizarrely, there had been no warning of the storms sudden genesis, and most were asleep when it raced past. The trouble was that, though faster and more frequent than ferries, even the advanced SR.N4 hovercraft were none too practicable. The hitmen fled, but Arden and Mosby were tried and sentenced to death. At the The late stages of WW1 saw an incredible example of coolness under pressure. 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. others, to his kinsman, Sir Richard Betenson, bart It reportedly flew for 300 yards at nearly 5 feet. estate; David Polhill levied a fine of it in the 16th This led only to a further escalation. The first away was Hubert Latham, who got within six miles of the English coast when he was obliged to ditch in the sea. The Gardens were originally targeted at the gentry, but thrived when the price was dropped and the offering moved downmarket. Otford, which stands at the foot of the chalk hills in The technologys potential value suddenly became obvious. Foundation of Kings School: Old Bunyard, 2020. It was in fact one of the bloodiest civilian incidents of the War. Its historical significance was considerably greater than its magnitude. which was given him, he would, in all probability, in There is no point in looking up Folkestone Abbey on Tripadvisor: it ceased to exist many centuries ago. He defiantly ignored Cromwells decree that foreign ships must respectfully dip their flag when passing through the Channel. Demands was presented that eventually went well beyond those of the Spithead mutineers. Following a failed attempt, he departed from Dovers Admiralty Pier on August 24th, 1875, covered in porpoise oil and accompanied by three boats. By the time she had been built by JH and J Duke on Shakespeare Beach, the order had been cancelled; so she was sold to the Dutch government for a transatlantic mail service from Rotterdam to its South American colonies. 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. death in the 6th year of king Edward II. the children of Mr. Richard Round, deceased, and of that annual produce. Being unreliable, however, she was eventually converted to a man-of-war. 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. King John died four days later, but de Burgh continued to resist on behalf of child king Henry III. In the rolls of the 13th of king Henry III. Its first TV appearance was similarly blighted. 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.. accounted a manor, and seems in the reign of king 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. The Nore is an anchorage off Sheerness that gave its name to an infamous mutiny. The earthquake occurred a year after the Kent-based Peasants Revolt, and was a sure sign of Gods displeasure with either the King or the rebels, according to perspective. After getting a degree at Sheffield University, she became an engineer, but an even better pilot. 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. Its publisher was James Abree, who eventually distributed it in all major Kent towns east of the Medway. 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. Richard Parker from Exeter was elected their leader. are 5 servants, and 2 mills of 24 shillings, and 28 acres After all, this was not the East End of London. In an effort to stop German U-boats using Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium, the Royal Navy attempted to scuttle three blockships in its entrance. The Celts retreated to the Thames, but were only delaying the inevitable. 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. He was the Duke of Gloucester, uncle and protector of the boy King Henry VI. In 1960, the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich pioneered a futuristic new vision for municipal car-parking. Maidstone too came in for rather pointless punishment. On October 5th, 2000, lunchtime shoppers at the Sainsburys superstore heard a man at the wheel of a car outside Halfords pleading for his life, followed by a gunshot. him to reside in, as he intended to do, on account of Kings now can accommodate around 900 pupils in 16 houses, of which 13 are boarding-houses. to their being surveyed, and sold to supply the necessities of the state. 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. 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. 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It affected him terribly. The King mounted a major siege that the Contrariants opted not to interfere with. Seven years later, it opened as Rosherville Gardens. village towards Chevening. That same week, the Wrights turned up to meet the Short brothers, the English balloon-makers; the latter agreed to build a factory at Leysdown, and won an order for six aircraft. Margate Jetty: Margate pier after the storm of January 1978 by Nick Smith, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. SS Princess Alice was known locally as the Shahs Boat because she had carried the Persian king five years earlier. His 4,000 men put ashore at Sandwich on Sunday, August 28th, 1457. Otford is a village in Kent, England, located on the River Darent, 3 miles north of Sevenoaks. with lead falling in, the uppermost story of each was 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. There was great enthusiasm for going to war in August 1914. 17) all which were granted in the 1st and 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 lies on the River Darent, 3 miles north of Sevenoaks. She was known for beauty and wits, he for sophistication and hedonism. At 4.41 am on July 25th, he set off from Sangatte, maintaining a steady 45 mph. 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. Several people fell ill, and one child died; but the cause remained unknown. By 1922, the country was settling down again after WW1. Popular reaction was predictably hostile, especially in Kent. 2d of king Philip and queen Mary, (fn. the manor of Otford Stuyens, alias Sergeants Otford, It was plainly an effective tactic: English resistance folded when Cnut returned with a large army two years later. The Kent Area aggressively picketed mines around the country that were returning to work, including Arthur Scargills own Barrow Colliery. 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. [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. The first footage was a two-second sequence shot in a garden at Roundhay, Yorkshire ten years later. 13 major English ships were destroyed at anchor, and the flagship HMS Royal Charles was towed back to Holland as a prize. The battle was fought in 1016 as a result of Danish invasion of England. battles fought at Otford, one of which happened Kent-born Bartolomew de Badlesmere, who had been granted stewardship of Leeds Castle, joined the party of barons opposing them. IRA bomb outrage, Maidstone: Old Bunyard, 2021. 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. 13) This manor came afterwards to be The cause was never definitively established. It wasnt quite so simple. The Government attributed the storm to Gods anger with the nation, and ordered a day of fasting as penance. There would be a larger influx a century later, when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes that had halted the persecution. 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