Great Securitas Robbery: Old Bunyard, 2021. He faced a doughty opponent: Hubert de Burgh from Norfolk, a veteran defender of sieges. The two former sold their shares to Sir After several failed attempts, she hired a couple of assassins called Black Will and Shakebag to do the job professionally. Dover incident: Old Bunyard, 2020. and Robert William; for they had, in the 46th year of it. Dr. William Fortunately, many bandsmen had already gone outside to exercise; but 11 were found dead in the rubble, and 21 injured. 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. It was not until March 1895 that the Lumire brothers presented their cinmatographe in Paris. It was finally rendered outmoded by improved rail travel, which opened up attractions much further afield. The only wonder is that no more than 13 were killed and 21 injured. Perversely, James I reversed the trend in 1604 by making even injury by witchcraft a capital offence. of Colletwell, and to have been for many years the Later that month, however, SS RF Matthews actually rammed the Lightship; this time, the message was for real. The 2nd Dutch War had ended badly for Britain, not least because of the Kings financial mismanagement. 150 hogs. It was scuppered by evidence that, contrary to his testimony, his wife could not have paid a critical 1,000 hotel bill; it was in fact paid by Saudi aides. As the horrible reality sank in, firemen leapt into action, but too late. On May 2nd, he completed three flights there, the longest being 1,500 feet. The consensus was that Gods will was supreme, but there was endless dispute about the detail. 1699, t. Population: 3,465 (2011 Census) OS grid reference: TQ525590 . David Polhill, esq. This led only to a further escalation. Though most of England had given up, the young new king took the battle to the Danes. As the defendant Kenneth Noyes solicitor pointed out, Decabrals death was hardly helpful to his impending appeal. Great South-Eastern Flood: Kent Cinque Ports by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 2.5. 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. It was commanded by mercenary pirate Eustace the Monk, carrying troops commanded by Robert de Courtenay. 349 men died; just one stoker survived. Eight months after the collision, she was stopped off Dover and confiscated. Despite losing her rudder and all her masts, she was finally brought to dock at Deptford, but only after the crew watched in horror as the Dolphin went down alongside with all hands. HEREABOUTS TOOK PLACE/ ON THURSDAY THE 18TH OF JUNE A.D. 1450/ THE BATTLE OF SOLEFIELDS/ FOUGHT BETWEEN ROYALIST TROOPS UNDER/ SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD - AND MEN FROM/ KENT LED BY JACK CADE Inscription legible? By 1936, it had stood there for 82 years. curing barrenness in women, which caused great resort of people to his image and shrine in this church; He set sail for Denmark, taking with him his fathers noble hostages; and, at Sandwich, he paused to put them ashore. land, and though the rivulets and springs throughout it The supportive King of France sent a fleet from Honfleur under the command of Pierre de Brz, a veteran antagonist of the English army. She broke into two, and sank in four minutes. (fn. The archbishops of Canterbury had, from the earliest accounts, a HOUSE Or PALACE here, in which they Those accounts that exist were mostly written long after the event, are short on detail, and seldom tally. Mr. James Martyr, who pulled the whole of it down, 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. The driver, John Sansom, reported afterwards that he saw nothing, but simply felt an impact. Several people fell ill, and one child died; but the cause remained unknown. At 7.53am, the charges exploded, igniting hundreds of 6- and 12-inch shells. Alice Arden of Faversham decided with her low-born lover Thomas Mosby to murder her husband, former mayor Thomas Arden. Edmund joins forces with the Northumbrian Uhtred Edmund and Cnut ravage Cnut's army closes on York, and Uhtred and the Northumbrians submit to Cnut April 23, 1016. One victim was not found until later because his body had been blown onto a roof. conveyed to that king a messuage, called BROUGHTON'S, and other premises in Otford, in exchange for Its most famous production was Calpe, a 438-ton wooden paddle-driven steamship ordered by the American & Colonial Steam Navigation Company in 1825. He himself was born in Dublin, and went to Eton and Oxford. His now dead associates never divulged the truth, and his fate remains unknown. 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. Efforts to blow up the remainder failed, and in 1998 it was dismantled. with quarterings, in the middle a mullet for difference. Some diehards held out in Essex, but it was curtains for King Charles: he was beheaded in January. yearly, They even banned Christmas. SS Princess Alice was known locally as the Shahs Boat because she had carried the Persian king five years earlier. and built a good genteel house on the scite of it, in After divorcing Jacqueline, Humphrey settled with Eleanor at, Despite being born in Sussex, Jack Cade was known as the Captain of Kent for good reason. his descendant, of the same After his death in 1035 Emma tried to make her son, Harthacnut, king of England, and he would rule jointly with Harold Harefoot, Cnut's son by his first wife, until 1037 when Emma and Harthacnut were exiled from England. Six years after being sacked for his outspokenness in 1879, he single-handedly founded the Indian National Congress. the crown, where it continues at this time. A maritime incident off Margate on December 6th, 1875 could have had major international repercussions. of a lady, in profile, with figures of statuary marble on each side, (fn. He stopped to discover the grim reality. Anyone wondering why Tenterden is a Cinque Port nine miles inland need look no further than the flood of 1287. [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. Of these, 890 RAF Meteors crashed, claiming 450 lives. [4] The battle was a victory for Edmund,[2] who lost enough men that he returned to Wessex to raise another army. the archbishop's possession at the taking the survey of Some members were burned in Canterbury; but, by the time the order for Harts arrest went out in 1557, he was already dead. His belief in the project was vindicated by the fact that, when it opened at the Crystal Palace in Penge in 1920, 94,179 visited on the first bank holiday after its opening, and 2.3 million in the first 18 months. On the narrow bridge, one of the horses spooked, causing a wheel to crash through the balustrade. The attack was an echo of the Regents Park outrage of 1982, when seven Royal Green Jackets bandsmen were killed. There were 49 fatalities, and 78 were injured. The engine struck it and turned sideways, causing the following carriages to pile into it. In 1830, the entrepreneurial Islingtonian Jeremiah Rosher had the idea of creating a leisure resort for Londoners at a former chalk-pit he owned, where Northfleet now lies. The event is marked by a memorial at Lenham church, where a commemorative service is still held annually. Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. Margaret surrendered after a fortnight and became the first woman to be imprisoned in the Tower. The bloodstained boy, 19, reported that he had just murdered his 22-year-old brother George in bed, having premeditatedly beaten his head in with the blunt edge of a meat cleaver and finished him off with a dagger. 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. At 6.15pm on September 16th, 1918, Commander NW Diggle was on the Dover cliffs when he heard an explosion, and saw his ship HMS Glatton on fire. By the middle of the C9, the threat from the East presented by red-bearded men in longboats was serious, and incessant. The city resisted his assault for three weeks, until the siege succeeded on account of the treachery of a certain Aelfmaer. Much of the airship was salvaged before it broke up at sea. His plan was to hold the Admiralty to ransom by blockading the Thames. Their ready admission to such nonsense suggests a good deal of coercion, but it was enough to see them arraigned. Around the age of 40, she took a shine to her doctor, whose wife she secretly poisoned, though not fatally, with a chocolate cream. 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. Their ready admission to such nonsense suggests a good deal of coercion, but it was enough to see them arraigned. The pilot responded as instructed, by dipping his wings. The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. duke of Newcastle, who both died, s. p. thirdly, Elizabeth, with his army, marched after Canute, the Danish king, The operation was proceeding well until it was discovered that 100 tons of explosives lay underneath a bulkhead. He was in effect a harbinger of the English Reformation. Despite the jet engine having been invented in England by Frank Whittle, Germany led the way in making jet fighters operational, its Me 262 claiming over 500 Allied aircraft. Five Kent men went to petition the Tory-dominated Commons to pass a bill of supply so that the King could build Britains defences against the French. The plane crashed at Penshurst Airfield, and all seven on board were killed. acres, lying in Otford, Seal, and Kemsing; in the 15th Uniquely among counties away from the Welsh and Scottish borders, Kent was granted the status of semi-autonomous County Palatine, so retaining some of its own laws. It 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 History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3. On January 5, After the RAFs destructive and demoralising raid on Lbeck in March 1942, Hitler decided on a change of tactics. A detachment of about 100 soldiers was despatched from Canterbury to deal with the uprising. ago, sold it to Sir Jeffry Amherst, K.B. A Yorkshireman, he served in the Army before taking up a favourite occupation of ex-soldiers, highway robbery. [4] Uhtred was forced to return north when Cnut began raiding his lands around Bamburgh, and was killed after submitting to Cnut. Towards Sevenoke the soil becomes After hurrying out to her, he flooded the forward magazines but realised that, when the flames reached the magazines aft, the explosion would ignite the adjacent ammunition ship Gransha and obliterate Dover. whose son, Sir Charles Farnaby Radcliffe, bart. When a constable was sent to arrest him, Tom shot him dead. A pair of barges alongside had likewise disappeared. Fanned by the wind, the fire passed from The Wall along Harbour Street and Marine Street, and soon formed such a firestorm that distant features could be seen as though it were daylight. The boat that made the most round-trips seven was Medway Queen, which can now be seen displayed at Gillingham Pier. Although not as strong as the 1382 earthquake, the one that occurred at 6pm on April 6th, 1580 had equally dramatic if rather different effects. The consequences were shocking. To begin with, the tests they conducted were within the house. him to reside in, as he intended to do, on account of was widened in 1767, many skeletons were found in which was given him, he would, in all probability, in His army landed in Thanet in May 1216. On Friday, September 22nd, 1989, a 15-pound time-bomb went off at 8.22am in the Royal Marines depot in Deal. see, in the 4th year of the Conqueror's reign, anno Also in Sussex, Winchelsea was obliterated, and had to be rebuilt on the top of a cliff, while Hastings lost its harbour when a cliff collapsed. there is mention They never reached the capital because of the weather, and two returned to base with mechanical problems. The Northern Belles crew lashed themselves to the remaining mast and sat out the night in blizzard conditions. convenience, in their own possession. He defiantly ignored Cromwells decree that foreign ships must respectfully dip their flag when passing through the Channel. Scores of nurses were drafted in. One of the biggest challenges facing the English Commonwealth under Cromwell was the mercantile strength of the Dutch Republic. Like Lady Jane and 90 fellow rebels, Wyatt received no mercy. At 9.16, it derailed at 70 mph between Hither Green and Grove Park. Renamed Curaao, she first crossed the Atlantic in April/May 1827, reaching Suriname in 28 days at a stately eight knots. The first was on December 21st, 1914, amounting to two bombs dropped into the sea off Dover by a German seaplane. The antagonists were Spain and Holland, and the warzone the Downs, the safe anchorage off Deal. THE MANOR OF SERJEANTS OTFORD, with the Yet the community responded more collaboratively than some societies with greater medical knowledge and healthcare expenditure. It was late owing to a pea-souper, and at 6.20 pm was waiting at a red light near St Johns, only five miles out. Ignored, Cade convened an army of 5,000 at Blackheath. In addition to car bombs targeting commercial enterprises like shops and bars, it had a paramilitary component, specifically targeting the British Army and Police. In these situations, a mysterious fire normally comes into play, but this case was different. 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. According to legend, a madwoman found Williams body and unaccountably placed a garland on his and her own head, curing herself of her madness. It glanced off a roof and struck the workshop, killing 46 of the camps 244 men; the eventual death toll was 52. The last Kent mine closed in 1989. Ignoring his fathers and the Popes warnings, Louis sent a vanguard of knights to London, and then an invasion fleet. It soon filled up, and St Andrews House was supplemented with first the Queens House and then the Hermitage Block. This one was a gift from Henrys French brother-in-law, Louis IX. With the Napoleonic Wars over, the Royal Navy had unused resource. Though slow, this still cut 12 days off the journey by sail. mandates, dated from their manor house of Otford, The flashpoint was the imprisonment of Robert Belling, an escaped serf from Gravesend. rebuilt great part of this side of the altar for Robert Polhill, gent. Perhaps; but, given the paucity of hard evidence, one might as well argue that God was reacting to the recent canonisation of the turbulent priest. On the 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 daughter of lord St. John, obt 1625; arms, a pheon; memorials The waves demolished a portion of the white cliffs at Dover, bringing down part of the Castle wall with it. A statue was erected at Dover to mark his achievement. They were not flawless: for example, the name Pilgrims Way was enduringly applied to the wrong route. MGS will therefore celebrate its quincentenary within 30 years. He seemed the model of respectability in John Majors government, until he was accused by Granadas World in Action of involvement in an arms deal. 90 passengers were killed and 173 injured. 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. 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. They ejected their ballast, anchors, food and drink, and finally even their clothes. It caused quite a stir thereabouts. It was a gallant effort: five months later, two others attempting a Calais-to-Dover crossing were killed when their balloon caught fire. Glynd, in Sussex; secondly Gertrude, sister of Thomas Holles, Thirty were drowned. Newspapers started showing up around Europe in the C17. manoeuvres that ended in the battle of Otford. The project came in 80% over budget, the tunnel was long underused, and it is most familiar now for problems associated with illegal immigration. parish officers, to be paid out of land vested in Mr. Polhill, and ONE OF THE FAMILY OF POLHILL gave by will, 20s. Owing to lack of space, the Balloon Factory moved in 1890 to Aldershot, Hampshire; then, from 1904, it relocated to nearby Farnborough, which afforded space to build the first British airship, Nulli Secundus, launched in 1907. On the second, Hosidius Getas legion mounted a surprise attack. After Margaret Thatcher returned to power in 1983 with a landslide, the hard left reverted to its 1970s strategy of causing economic disruption by industrial action. The battle has been labelled the first recorded sea battle in British history. Thanks for that Craggs, often it seems that on old battlefields no skeletons have survived. A suspect in a woolly hat was seen running off. one hundred pounds per annum, the house and glebe Elizabeth I went further, making hanging the penalty only for a second offence, provided that murder was not involved. Rather unfairly, Tunbridge Wells saw an encore in 1956, when cars were almost buried in the white marbles. As at Gravesend 25 years earlier, conditions were perfect for a blaze, most buildings being close together, wooden, and coated with asphalt. king of Kent, at this place; and though Offa gained That demand was rebutted in 1635 by an English book, Mare Clausum (Closed Sea), to which Charles lent his weight by having this powerful ship built. King Stephens forces under Gilbert de Clare laid siege to the castle. 3) soon after which one Werhard, a powerful priest, and kinsman to archbishop Wlfred, found 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. This was John Any Bird Bell, 14, from a Rochester poor-house. Eleven of the twelve carriages came off the tracks, and four overturned when they reached points. It was a signal for the sort of competitive mass brawl that infuriated the authorities. Despite its record, production of the Meteor continued until 1955. It remained there for four years, but was then taken to South Kensington. The four knights who were sent to deal with him were led by Reginald FitzUrse, who had estates at both Barham and Teston. Marching from Dover to London in October 1215, King John found his path blocked by Rochester Castle, which controlled the river crossing. Two columns of flames seconds apart leapt 300 feet into the air, marking the spot where the 395-foot ship had lain moments before. In 1137, however, a monastery known as Folkestone Priory was built nearby. There was panic in the dark, and 293 people were drowned, including the captain. whole value of it, in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, was . Dartford to Sevenoke goes through the village of Cnut's invasion continued after the battle and a peace was made after Edmund lost the battle of Assandun later in the year. His incendiary rhetoric drew a gang of supporters who followed him on foot. The Battle of Brentford was fought in 1016 some time between 9 May (the approximate date Canute landed at Greenwich) and 18 October (the date of the later Battle of Assandun) between the English led by Edmund Ironside and the Danes led by Cnut. Though earthquake damage was worst in Northern France and Flanders, the tremors rendered Saltwood Castle uninhabitable, while in London two children were killed by falling stones. After a skirmish with Maarten Tromps Dutch fleet in the Channel, the Spaniards took refuge in the Downs. 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. Ashby proved their collective guilt by reportedly going into ecstasy in court and expanding to a vast bigness. Sidney, he was created lord viscount Lisle, and that Sir George Harper, anno 33 king Henry VIII. The impact caused one packed carriage to be crushed by those behind it. 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. 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. Becket, a Norman noble, had earned King Henry IIs opprobrium by repeatedly disrespecting his will. After fleeing to a friends house in Uckfield, East Sussex, he was never seen again. He realised too late that the ship, the Swedish oil tanker Divina, was steaming straight at him. Two years later, however, the appeasers had their way. Equipment salvaged from the largely intact plane included a cutting-edge bomb-sight that was soon incorporated in British bombers. It was first given serious consideration in 1802, when French engineer Albert Mathieu proposed a tunnel lit with oil lamps, ferrying travellers by horse-drawn carriage. The unsuspecting townsfolk found themselves on the end of a Viking-style raid as the invaders ran amok. Several rebels subsequently found guilty of murder were reprieved. There was much wisdom after the event, with pundits especially blaming insufficient testing. Edward III. He became a national hero, and his 21-hour 40-minute swim was commemorated with a statue at Dover. That began to change in 1916, as counter-weapons emerged. of which was worth fourteen pounds per annum beyond that sum. Independence would not be restored until his death in 796. Seven years later, it opened as Rosherville Gardens. This First Dutch War started well, when the Dutch fled the Battle of the Kentish Knock in September. Before being packed off to a detention camp, the Germans were taken to The Sportsman for a beer or two. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. One went posthumously to Old Dovorian rugby international Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison, who was lost while leading an attack on the mole. Structural damage was also widespread. and it is otherwise watered by two other streams which At length it was starvation that did for them. The last and best remembered sea-battle off Sandwich occurred in 1460 during the Wars of the Roses. One particularly startling accident took place on June 18th, 1951. the last of that name, began to rebuild this house, intending to reside in it, but he again pulled it down before it was quite finished. The Prince of Wales, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling all came to see it, and HG Wells based a sci-fi story on it; yet Maxim abruptly abandoned the project. By 466, the invaders were forced back to the place where theyd first entered Britain, and possibly forced to flee. The Captain of HMS Haslemere leapt in to save her, but himself froze to death. That evening, he went to see the Lord Mayor and struck a wager with him. The archbishop himself holds Otefort in demesne. 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. In 1808, a cadet called John Grant was found guilty of arson. Disappearance of Lord Lucan: Old Bunyard, 2021. By 1922, the country was settling down again after WW1. It appeared that cinders raked from the furnace had not been extinguished. The Weald having long been a hive of Lollard dissent, with Tenterden, Benenden, and Cranbrook at its centre, he presided over a purge, starting in April 1511. It was also remembered in the 1980s, when calculations were made to estimate its intensity; the Channel Tunnel was accordingly constructed to withstand such a battering, if it ever happens again. An orderly noticed that a fire had been started by a clothes iron that had been left on, and at 6.40 am alerted the Fire Brigade. lord Amherst, baron of Holmsdale, and he is the present owner of it. The Bard, coincidentally, had an ancestor called Thomas Arden whod died shortly before. December 1703 saw the most destructive storm in English history. The effects in Canterbury were considerable, including the partial collapse of St Augustines Abbey and the Cathedral. 115 of Cootes men were killed in frantic fighting, and 1,134 taken prisoner. Here that great prelate archbishop Robert Winchelsea entertained king Edward I. in his 29th year, Claude Ridley, flying from Joyce Green near Dartford, intercepted Zeppelin L15 and fired off a few rounds from a distance. It took place on Penenden Heath, north of Maidstone, and amounted to the trial of Williams rapacious half-brother Odo, who as Earl of Kent had been indicted by Archbishop Lanfranc. One of the men determined to set the record straight was Charles Rolls, the dare-devil half of the Rolls-Royce partnership. With Britain embroiled in war with the French Revolutionists, the Nore mutiny was a more sinister affair. his son, and others his trustees, conveyed the whole of By the time Hardinge completed his tour of duty in 1916, his young wife had died back in Penshurst two years earlier. The ship drifted onto the Nore sandbank, and broke her back. So spectacular was it that a crowd of around 10,000 gathered to watch, even though Whitstables population was only about a fifth of that number. of Shoreham, by whom he had The new appointee in 1910 was Charles Hardinge, 1, It is fitting that, 17 years after one corner of Kent saw the, During WW1, Neville Usborne (b 1883) had the unique distinction of being both a Royal Navy lieutenant and a wing-commander, having taken command of the. In September 1174, the building was again engulfed in flames, suffering major damage. 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