French inventor Clment Ader later claimed rather dubiously to have flown even earlier, but it seems more likely that only Maxims failure to commercialise his invention cost Bexley a place in history. This was later concentrated down to a narrower front from Dover to Hastings. By the C19, Penenden Heath had been a place of execution for around a millennium. A Junkers Ju 88A-1 lost one engine after being hit by anti-aircraft fire over Upnor, and was brought down by fighters on Graveney Marshes. It was ten years old and ten feet high, and Louis had been gifted it by the Egyptians, who were after an alliance against the Syrians. Its most famous alumni are, There is no point in looking up Folkestone Abbey on Tripadvisor: it ceased to exist many centuries ago. 10). lands of the Greater Park disparked soon after the grant 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. Maidstone too came in for rather pointless punishment. inclosed within it, parcel of the honour of Otford, for The two former sold their shares to Sir years by a branch of the family of Petley, and another The engine struck it and turned sideways, causing the following carriages to pile into it. She flew to stardom at 26 by becoming the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, her first of several long-distance firsts. Mysteriously, after the, The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. By then, with the propeller broken and the ship taking on water, the order had been given to abandon ship; but most of the lifeboats were lost in the gale. There the house wanted a fit spring to water it, stuck his Had they drowned, they would have been held innocent, but the devil helped them stay afloat. In 1067, months after William the Conqueror was crowned King of England, Englands foremost religious building burned to the ground. to his son, Sir Robert Sidney, the scite of the honour When he urged revellers to get to work, he got a surly reaction that turned to pushing and shoving. Dyke. of it. seemingly of the time of queen Elizabeth, which carried with it the appearance of its former opulence. who is the 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. Although the task of communicating with pilots in the air had seemed nigh on impossible, by April 1915 Major Prince was ready to attempt a conversation with Captain JM Furnival. acres of land, of which about seventy are woodland. The county paid him Danegeld of 3,000 pounds of silver to go away; yet, two years later, he was back. On May 21st, 1382, it was the epicentre of an earthquake that caused structural damage as far away as London. The bewildering fact is that the Kings School was founded nearly a thousand years before both Eton and Harrow. But the little or Lesser Park, lying on the north Schoolmaster William Jaggers, the lodger, was woken by the sound of groans coming from the next room. The Admiral Gardner and the Britannia had three things in common: both were built in Blackwell, owned by the British East India Company, and doomed to the same watery end. and supreme sovereignty, the other between the Danes staff into the dry ground, and that water immediately Under half the ships 500 crew survived, many of the dead being buried at Cheriton Road Cemetery, where a memorial now stands. passed an ordinance to vest them in trustees, in order In truth, it was the start of a worse one. A fair is held here on the 24th of Kings now can accommodate around 900 pupils in 16 houses, of which 13 are boarding-houses. last-mentioned battle with the Danes was fought. The city resisted his assault for three weeks, until the siege succeeded on account of the treachery of a certain Aelfmaer. The inquest found that the bridge had been dangerously designed and maintained, but returned a verdict of accidental death. of Bradborne, in Sevenoke, who dying Otford, by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Ireton, by Bridget, HMS Vanguard sank at anchor in Chatham dockyard, but at least no one was harmed. Newspapers started showing up around Europe in the C17. had thus come into the king's possessions, he kept the For the town of this name in Australia, see Otford, New South Wales. Work did once start at the Kentish end, but it was just a gesture. 1070; who, when he divided the manors and possessions belonging to his church, (fn. He averaged 606 mph, a new world record. Another went to his subordinate Able Seaman Albert McKenzie, 19, who survived his wounds but died of Spanish flu at Chatham Naval Hospital six months later. One, the lugger Victory, went down with all hands; the others finally gave up. Some of the crew had been re-stowing cordite charges for the ships guns. 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. since created 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. All were taken to the depot, where a multi-national gang armed with AK-47s was waiting. Following the Royalists crucial defeat at Maidstone in 1648, the position of Clerk of the Court at the Kings trial months later was aptly filled by Andrew Broughton, the towns Rutland-born mayor. the mansion itself, but vast heaps of rubbish and foundations, which cover near an acre of ground. Admiral Gardner, launched in 1797, made five trips to India, once surviving an attack by a privateer. A violent hailstorm hit the area south-east of London, Tunbridge Wells being particularly badly hit. [2] When Edmund died on 30 November 1016 Cnut gained the whole kingdom. Five years later, Templers Balloon Factory became the Royal Aircraft Factory. On the second, Hosidius Getas legion mounted a surprise attack. Parliament responded prudently by striking an alliance with the Dutch and Sweden to counter French aggression. The Grosser Kurfrst turned to starboard and then straightened her course, whereupon the Knig Wilhelm alongside initiated the same manoeuvre. [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. So comprehensive was the destruction that the remains had to be demolished. On August 24th, de Burgh led the English fleet, using a battle-plan worthy of Nelson. His piety led him to undertake a pilgrimage to Canterbury, taking his ward with him. The mission was proceeding excellently until an adverse wind blew up, and British transports were unable to take the troops off. According to Henry of Huntingdon, the Mercians were victorious at this battle near Sevenoaks. Kent-born Bartolomew de Badlesmere, who had been granted stewardship of Leeds Castle, joined the party of barons opposing them. large as life, standing and leaning on an urn, over him is the head Great Securitas Robbery: Old Bunyard, 2021. worlds first shore-to-ship communication, Royal Naval Air Services Kingsnorth station, Thames Richard Montgomery KC 7722 (Modified) (cropped), St Johns Lewisham Rail Crash Geograph-2042851, Barming Asylum now Oakwood Hospital. Otford; A view along Otford high street, just along from the central pond: Otford. It seems formerly to have been known by the name After failing to starve the defenders out, Louis agreed a truce in October. The new appointee in 1910 was Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge (1858-1944), from South Park at Penshurst. Squadron Leader Phillip Sandeman ejected, but his parachute failed to open, while Sergeant Kenneth Clarkson was killed instantly. Despite days of disruption, the wreckage was removed, the bridge rebuilt, and the lines re-laid within six weeks. 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. In fact, the reverse happened. residence of the Petty's; several of whom lie buried in of Shoreham, by whom he had Within weeks, during the seminal showdown at Assandun, Eadric and his men again defected, handing Cnut a decisive victory. The RMS Adelaide was an Irish paddle-steamer that chiefly operated between Cork and London. 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. 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. Their four armies were to converge on London from Kent, Devon, Herefordshire, and Leicestershire respectively. 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. Maidstone, now Kents county town, had a school at the ecclesiastical College of All Saints as early as 1395. Edmund would overtake Cnut at the battle of Assandun on 18 October 1016, which was a victory for Cnut. his wife, daughter of John Polhill, esq. and Robert William; for they had, in the 46th year Shakespeare even mentions the earthquake in Romeo and Juliet. village towards Chevening. The fire service was unable to make much difference because the tide was out and there was no other water source. Penselwood, battle of, 1016. He became a national hero, and his 21-hour 40-minute swim was commemorated with a statue at Dover. and it is otherwise watered by two other streams which Maintenance was criticised, especially as the speed limit had recently been increased. In 1256, the Bishop persuaded Pope Alexander IV to canonise William, and a shrine was built. for the residence of the archbishops at it for such a He was executed at Penenden Heath on August 15th and buried at Bearsted, while old Sondes found himself heirless. Passengers fears were realised on the straight between Dunton Green and Sevenoaks. Meanwhile, however, the Kent Messenger Group which started with the Maidstone Telegraph in 1859 had been growing steadily stronger, and acquired KCN in 1980. Early one morning, a trustee prisoner called Peters absconded during a regular medical examination and used a skeleton key to try and release a hardened criminal called Bennett. It was doubly auspicious that the locals should have won it. 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). Eight months after the collision, she was stopped off Dover and confiscated. When a detachment of soldiers approached the rebels in a clearing, Tom shot their lieutenant. It only recovered when the growth of the Royal Dockyard added so much to the value of the Hospitals lands that the Crown even tried to sequestrate them. the other battle was fought in 1016, when king edmund, surnamed ironside, passing the river thames with his army, marched after canute, the danish king, through surry, into kent, and encountering the danes at this place, made a great slaughter of them; after which he pursued them as far as aylesford, in their rout to the isle of shepey, and had steeple at the west end, in which are two bells. Britannia, built in 1806, made just one voyage to China and India. (Cropped). It caused quite a stir thereabouts. end of the chancel a mural monument for George Petty and Anne At last, Glatton capsized. He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. A French warship exploded with the loss of 200 lives, while Admiral Hendriksz Dutch flagship foundered. The four knights who were sent to deal with him were led by Reginald FitzUrse, who had estates at both Barham and Teston. When the people of Brentwood in Essex refused to pay, there was open unrest, prompting a general insurgency across the South-East. 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. Reformation theologians generally went along with Catholicism on this; but a major challenge was presented by the Freewillers. the valley, not far from the eastern banks of the Darent, across which another road branches off from the the palace. his descendant, of the same The impact caused one packed carriage to be crushed by those behind it. A packed Sunday-evening train was travelling from Hastings to Charing Cross with many standing passengers. The accident was blamed on a faulty primer. present possessor of it. After a respite from raids that lasted for about the years 900-980, the Vikings began raiding England again. One particularly startling accident took place on June 18th, 1951. In return he agreed, unbelievably, to convert to Catholicism, and join the French in waging war on Britains allies, the Dutch. It has been for some years possessed by the family of Two columns of flames seconds apart leapt 300 feet into the air, marking the spot where the 395-foot ship had lain moments before. [3], Cnut, possibly now claiming the title king of Denmark, appeared at Sandwich in September 1015 and ravaged Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. She then began obtaining chocolate creams from a local confectioner, John Maynard, and returning them after adding her own ingredient: strychnine. Gerard Manley Hopkins recorded the wreck in a poem dedicated to five nuns who drowned. Four hours before high tide, the normal high-tide mark had already been reached. and chapter of Westminster augmented this curacy Edward III. Experiments at Lydd in 1886 evaluated the use of balloons for observing artillery fire, and land was hired at Lidsing for training camps. ago, sold it to Sir Jeffry Amherst, K.B. Despite the carnage, with a war on, the factory was soon rebuilt. In the rolls of the 13th of king Henry III. Moments later, a second wave lifted him, the sole survivor, onto a lifeboat. Kent was Parliamentarian in outlook, like the rest of the South and East, but had Royalist landowners. The incident was marked with an oast-house shaped memorial at Hadlow church. It lies for the greatest part of it in a low damp situation, There is no point in looking up Folkestone Abbey on Tripadvisor: it ceased to exist many centuries ago. 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. Afterwards, however, he made a tragic error at Aylesford in accepting Eadric the Acquisitive back into the Saxon fold. The torment of knowing until the end of his days must have been punishment enough. Reformation theologians generally went along with Catholicism on this; but a major challenge was presented by the Freewillers. he invaded it, and fought a famous battle with Aldric, He took a sympathetic approach to Indian nationalist concerns, for which reason he was relatively popular. surviving son, Sir Robert Sidney, by letters patent, Things were set to change in 1830, however, with Maidstone Prison being built; it was to be used as a new town-centre venue for this salutary public entertainment. Although all the South-East was affected, it was Kent that took the brunt of it, and RAF heroism in Kentish skies that blunted Germanys remorseless progress. Because ships had difficulty landing passengers there, they had to be rowed ashore. 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. Kent, thought it a fair opportunity to subdue it, and After all, this was not the East End of London. Cnut's invasion continued after the battle and a peace was made after Edmund lost the battle of Assandun later in the year. for Rochester, and There was speculation about devilish possession, and fraternal rivalry over a girl named Anne Delaune. The technologys potential value suddenly became obvious. 2). On the narrow bridge, one of the horses spooked, causing a wheel to crash through the balustrade. 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. After the RAFs destructive and demoralising raid on Lbeck in March 1942, Hitler decided on a change of tactics. El & Humph were the C15 supercouple. the Three years later, a specialist hoverport opened in Pegwell Bay. Elizabeth I went further, making hanging the penalty only for a second offence, provided that murder was not involved. He even had an excess of guns added at launch to emphasise the point. Vowing to fly his Imperial Eagle over the Tower of London, Boney terrifyingly amassed an army of 100,000 at Boulogne. chalk mixed with flint stones, and is in general very Though Canterbury had more than once experienced Viking aggression, nothing prepared it for what happened in 1011. were tried and determined. A few days later, about 50 prisoners went on the rampage, releasing all the other thousand convicts and causing serious damage. On May 2nd, he completed three flights there, the longest being 1,500 feet. death in the 6th year of king Edward II. She broke into two, and sank in four minutes. 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. Wat Tyler took control of the revolt, capturing Canterbury and assembling an army at Blackheath before causing mayhem in London. He set up a dealership in London selling fashionable Benz cars under his own Arnold brand. The Adelaide was last seen late on the Saturday evening from a lightship 15 miles north of Margate. Towards Sevenoke the soil becomes in the Otford, lately disparked, and his lands, meadows, &c. Their magnum opus Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was complete, and manager Brian Epstein had just died. 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. 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. for the Everests and Pettys. At 4.41 am on July 25th, he set off from Sangatte, maintaining a steady 45 mph. Not until the affluent 1980s did the Channel Tunnel get the go-ahead. With matters running out of control, the Home Secretary sent in the military. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. So dramatic were these events that they inspired an anonymous 1592 play, now thought to have been written mostly by William Shakespeare himself. 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. Kent got lucky in that respect, but witnessed extraordinary happenings. He engaged a businessman named George Jones to realise it. ONE OF THE FAMILY OF POLHILL gave by will, 20s. Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. Kents Petition of 1642 had only goaded Parliament into civil war. Equipment salvaged from the largely intact plane included a cutting-edge bomb-sight that was soon incorporated in British bombers. by knights service, who presently exchanged the same The police got their first lead when a woman tried banking notes marked Tonbridge. Customs & Excise always struggled to cope, not only because it was ill-equipped and outnumbered, but also because of corrupt officials and collusive communities. The motives of the French are unclear, though it could have been a pre-emptive strike in support of the baguette. All but the foremost group of cadets had been mowed down. As a finale, the structure would be spectacularly burned down. When he was apprehended, the prison population expressed its disapproval with a barrage of noise. The man with the noose was William Calcraft. THE MANOR OF SERJEANTS OTFORD, with the It was plainly an effective tactic: English resistance folded when Cnut returned with a large army two years later. LITTLE PARK, part of those possessions likewise Reaction began in the Elham area, when a threshing machine was wrecked one Saturday night in August, 1830. of the archbishop of Canterbury. (fn. [8] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the loss of men was caused by them drowning in the Thames, while historians Frank Stenton and Russel Poole have independently argued the men were lost in the battle. According to the historian Cassius Dio, who provided the only account of the battle, the pursuing Romans arrived to find them massed on the western bank, and a battle ensued. Popular reaction was predictably hostile, especially in Kent. The next day, they slipped away to Southampton en route to Russia, where they spent the rest of their lives. Cnut would gain the whole of England after Edmund's death on 30 November 1016. Ignored, Cade convened an army of 5,000 at Blackheath. The nobles found against Odo and confiscated part of his possessions. They didnt always get their own way, however. But insults were not enough. yearly, for the like purpose, to be paid out of land, vested in Mr. Amhurst, as trustee of and for Robert their eldest son, obt. Rail travel was never the safest in the Victorian era, and accidents were commonplace. Cranmer, in the 29th year of king Henry VIII. (Cropped, minor text edits). Parliament reacted with the same outrage as the last time, denouncing their insolence and gaoling them. 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 . With the Napoleonic Wars over, the Royal Navy had unused resource. through Surry, into Kent, and encountering the Danes Walter Arnold of East Peckham was something of a pioneer of the British automotive industry. Interestingly, the bones of a young female discovered there in 1885 have now been dated to the C7. Arriving at Bordeaux for a scheduled stop, it encountered a queue, and was further delayed by an RAF transport with mechanical problems. Damage to shipping was particularly grievous. 30th year of his reign; (fn. As so often, the cause was drivers not cutting their speed in thick fog, some travelling as fast as 70 mph with their fog lamps switched off. Realising that a public demonstration was vital, he turned his attention to Dover. The Brides in the Bath case was certainly that. Her death sentence was commuted to life in Broadmoor. It proved so damaging because trees were still in leaf and rooted in sodden ground after torrential rains; over 15 million were lost nationally, including six of the Seven Oaks. 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. Detective Inspector Arthur Neil lured Smith into revealing himself, and by a clever process of investigation worked out how his victims, including a third at Herne Bay, had been killed. A case can be made out for each. From his base at Manston, Group Captain Hugh Wilson flew a Meteor Mk.4, the EE454 Britannia, four times over a course between Herne Bay pier and Reculver Point. (fn. chief baron of the exchequer, who died in 1778, as did 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. Apart from the two valuable ships, Britannias lost cargo was worth 2.5 million today, while Admiral Gardner was carrying nearly 1 million in copper coins belonging to manufacturer Matthew Boulton. At least it raised a cheer in the fundraising Irish nationalist bars of New York, Chicago, and Boston. There was significant damage in Folkestone four miles away. 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