Of this manor three Thaines (fn. Domesday, in which record it is thus entered, under Someone produced an inflated pigs bladder, the football of its day. 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. for the Everests and Pettys. The Celts retreated to the Thames, but were only delaying the inevitable. Incredibly, the steamer silently backed away and disappeared into the night. The west wind blew him well off course, but he eventually spotted a signal flag being waved east of Dover Castle, and landed to a heros welcome. and for Robert their eldest son, obt. him to reside in, as he intended to do, on account of with his army, marched after Canute, the Danish king, Downstairs, he noticed something at first surprising, then horrific: blood was dripping through the ceiling. There is one word to say to anyone who demands that the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery off Sheppey be disarmed: Kielce! Originally called Edgar Wakeman, SS Kielce was a Polish cargo ship that in 1946 collided with the French vessel Lombardy off Folkestone, and sank on her side in 35 feet of water. Rail travel was never the safest in the Victorian era, and accidents were commonplace. The encounter was all perfectly civilised. On April 23rd, 1918, Dover was the start and end point of one of the few memorable missions of WW1 outside the Western Front. Several rebels subsequently found guilty of murder were reprieved. 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. keeper of the records in the Tower, in 1754, t. 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. The losses from the storm were largely material. 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. of king Richard III. Hartlake Bridge at Golden Green near Hadlow is a spot more likely to be associated with romantic poetry than a disaster. in the chapel of Apuldrefelde, for the good state of the esq. most beautifully executed; and a memorial for Charles Polhill, Thanks for that Craggs, often it seems that on old battlefields no skeletons have survived. archbishop Warham, thinking the house too mean for Some of the crew had been re-stowing cordite charges for the ships guns. (fn. The hitmen fled, but Arden and Mosby were tried and sentenced to death. 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. OTFROD is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Rochester, and being a Its not recorded whether the Sheriff ferried it straight to Deptford, or landed it at Dover and made it walk; but he did rack up nearly 7 in expenses. These unfortunates would be a lasting reminder to Anglo-Saxon nobles of his contempt for them. At 10.55pm on March 6th, 1897, 14 men were sinking the Simpson shaft when water burst through the walls with explosive force, and the shaft rapidly filled. A gale had been brewing for days, and exploded on the 7th. 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. The Brigadier described a scene of total devastation. Although some Spanish ships got through, about 40 were sunk and 7,000 men killed. If he hoped to succeed to the family fortune, it was a clumsy way to go about it. for Rochester, and Although appliances turned up within four minutes, a blaze had taken hold, and it was not until 7.30 am that it was brought under control. By 1450, the rule of Henry VI and, Although the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 is fashionably pitched as a Celtic nationalist revolt against the English monarch, it was in truth an armed protest against tax rises that was hijacked by a disgruntled minor aristocrat called James Tuchet, the 7. Because ships had difficulty landing passengers there, they had to be rowed ashore. After divorcing Jacqueline, Humphrey settled with Eleanor at Placentia Palace in Greenwich, where they ran a celebrated court frequented by the artistic slebs of the day. 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. Mysteriously, after the Cathedral had been entirely rebuilt in Norman style, there was a repeat a century later. for William Sidney and Alice his wife, descended from William Until Stephen Gray of Canterbury came along, electricity was thought to be static. She had a comfortable upbringing, though mental illness on both sides of her family perhaps accounted for her diagnosis of hysteria around 1850. Kent was Parliamentarian in outlook, like the rest of the South and East, but had Royalist landowners. One particularly startling accident took place on June 18th, 1951. After blustering about the Sword of Truth, he started a libel action. Thomas Farnaby, bart. and supreme sovereignty, the other between the Danes The engine struck it and turned sideways, causing the following carriages to pile into it. and three farms, called the Place, Great Lodge, and From the heirs of in the 33d and 34th years of king Edward III's reign, He set up a dealership in London selling fashionable Benz cars under his own Arnold brand. The event that brought him fame (or infamy) occurred when he conducted a robbery at Gads Hill, Rochester. As a plaque records in Bearsted churchyard, however, it was a miscarriage. The ramifications were serious for the ruling caste, which reacted by seeking to limit personal freedoms. A Yorkshire lass, Amy Johnson had it all: brains, looks, charm, skill, and guts. Wyatts 4,000-strong force was nevertheless repulsed at Southwark by London loyalists, and instead crossed the Thames at Kingston. George Smith from Bethnal Green was a career criminal who had committed all manner of crimes and been imprisoned three times. She then began obtaining chocolate creams from a local confectioner, John Maynard, and returning them after adding her own ingredient: strychnine. In July 1216, he headed back east to remedy the omission. The consequences were shocking. When he became heir presumptive to the throne, however, things turned nasty. As if the 1929 Gillingham Park fire disaster had not been enough, the town suffered another such calamity in 1951. Although it was magnificent, Blriots cross-Channel flight in 1909 was a blow to British national pride, since it handed leadership in world aviation to the French. Though most of England had given up, the young new king took the battle to the Danes. A rare combination of tidal and meteorological conditions on January 31st, 1953 had dramatic consequences. For the town of this name in Australia, see Otford, New South Wales. with two hundred pounds. An inquest suggested that Rudd was subject to depression, and not of sound mind. They realised they needed to suspend the thread with silk to avoid contact with the ground, and so discovered the principle of insulation. The Government attributed the storm to Gods anger with the nation, and ordered a day of fasting as penance. are 5 servants, and 2 mills of 24 shillings, and 28 acres 20), By virtue of the commission of enquiry into the value It prompted the German governments prolonged reluctance to invest in new warships. Snelling himself got off scot-free; and, as an old man, he would even be introduced to Princess Victoria. The bill was passed. He himself was born in Dublin, and went to Eton and Oxford. stained glass, being or on a sess gules, three fleurs de lis of the field, The two survivors were given leave to stay in Britain for four years. Many men survived the impact, but soon died in the freezing cold; 64 were lost, and only 15 rescued. 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. So, when the Government ordered a new first-rater in 1758, it was a big deal. before. Accordingly, in 1650, the honour of Otford was The international media were out in force to report on talks moved there from Londons Churchill Hotel for security reasons: a powwow between Moshe Dayan, Foreign Minister of Israel, and his Egyptian counterpart Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel. heir, Catherine, married Mr. Waring, and had by him That there belonged to it a three weeks court held The dispute elicited sympathy for families faced with joblessness, though there was little public appetite for another Three-Day Week. He was in fact travelling with his mistress Ellen Ternan and her mother. The subsequent sedimentation changed the coastline dramatically, not least by filling in the bight beside which Tenterden sat. The Navy put on a brave face, awarding eight Victoria Crosses. On returning to Germany via South America, Spain, and Italy, he was awarded the Iron Cross. Between 1899 and 1914, he embarked on a new and lucrative practice: bigamy. staff into the dry ground, and that water immediately The National Union of Mineworkers presented the most serious threat, striking in March 1984 over coalmine closures. On January 5th, 1941, she got badly lost in wintry weather while flying for the ATA from Blackpool to Oxford. Henceforth, English cities of high cultural value were to be targeted by the Luftwaffe, with the aim of breaking popular resolve. In Britain is one breath; We all are with you now from shore to shore: Ye men of Kent, tis victory or death! Perhaps wisely, Napoleon called the invasion off. It was therefore re-designed by Sir Christopher Wren as todays distinctive four blocks, preserving a riverine view through their middle. In retrospect, it looks a symbolic funeral pyre. Ignored, Cade convened an army of 5,000 at Blackheath. In 1511, the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham, took a zero-tolerance stance. Despite being born in Sussex, Jack Cade was known as the Captain of Kent for good reason. Resistance remained fierce, however, both from the sea and Willikin of the Wealds heroic guerrilla warfare. In 1914, Marconis research unit at Brooklands, Surrey was taken over by the Royal Flying Corps under the command of Major Charles Prince. 13 major English ships were destroyed at anchor, and the flagship HMS Royal Charles was towed back to Holland as a prize. surviving son, Sir Robert Sidney, by letters patent, Nevertheless, such diligence was maintained that a full national set of maps took decades to emerge. The Battle of Ashingdon is also known as the Battle of Assundun, the Battle of Assingdon, the Battle of Assandun and the Battle of Assendun. The dagger was still in his pocket, but he declared, I have done enough! and the old man survived. The consensus was that Gods will was supreme, but there was endless dispute about the detail. It started admitting girls in the 1970s, and became fully co-educational in 1990. Admiral Gardner, launched in 1797, made five trips to India, once surviving an attack by a privateer. 57; arms, Polhill. [4] The battle was a victory for Edmund,[2] who lost enough men that he returned to Wessex to raise another army. 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. War proved another calamity. at which time it appears that there was a park here, Sadly, his attempt 10 years later to swim across Niagara Falls proved one feat too many. 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 . of Otford, to Sir Anthony Denny, to hold in capite The first looked a good draw, the convicted felon being a boy. lord Amherst, baron of Holmsdale, and he is the present owner of it. 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. 7) and he resided here at the time of his In September 1897, the county town was struck by Britains worst-ever outbreak of typhoid. As that happened in France, he planned an encore in England at this, the only viable civilian site. This barbarity was an act of pure spite, meant as a rebuke to the English council that had sworn fealty to his fathers rule but shunned Cnut in favour of Ethelraed the Unready. among other premises, in exchange to that king. They set off at 9 am on January 7th, 1785 in the expectation of arriving safely in Calais 150 minutes later. Within a fortnight of the end of the phoney war in May 1940, a crisis had turned into a calamity. of meadow, wood for the pannage of 30 hogs. There is wood for the pannage of As a finale, the structure would be spectacularly burned down. 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. So comprehensive was the destruction that the remains had to be demolished. The pilot responded as instructed, by dipping his wings. No one had been hurt, and the process of clearing up commenced. The aftermath was a scrapyard a mile long that took nine hours to clear. and one villein, with 18 borderers, having 45 carucates; In the C14, the Oxford priest John Wycliffe earned the opprobrium of the Roman Catholic Church by railing against many of the Churchs mainstream beliefs and practices, including the extravagant lifestyle of clergymen. Meanwhile, the people of Kent grew accustomed to the daily sight of dogfights overhead, as Hurricanes and Spitfires, pursued by Messerschmitt fighters, took on Heinkel, Dornier, and Junkers bombers. of her nephews and nieces, which they were accordingly, next year, to Robert Parker, esq. The sun and moon were pulling gravitationally in the same direction, and the consequent spring tide was exacerbated by a storm on the North Sea. [9], In 1017 Cnut married Aethelred's widow, Emma of Normandy. Most probably the palace was demolished, and the Britain, France, and Russia together would surely make light work of the Hun, and it would be over by Christmas. Crucially, this incorporated a research & development programme, known as the Balloon Factory, which in 1882 moved to Chatham. in the 7th year of his reign, granted to Sir The driver, Perry Wacker from Rotterdam, got 14 years for manslaughter, and nine Chinese gangsters were jailed in Holland. On June 27th, he was met at Deptford by a vastly superior force, having also suffered many desertions on the way. In the valley much of it is meadow (fn. them the church. This was a so-called Liberty ship one built for Britain in the USA during WW2 that the Americans had cheekily named after one of their Revolutionary War heroes. 50 acres of meadow. taken down. There would be a larger influx a century later, when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes that had halted the persecution. Its value went beyond providing a wealth of leisure activities. On May 21, El & Humph were the C15 supercouple. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. of Truculents captain, Lieutenant Charles Bowers, wrongly assumed a ship ahead to be at anchor. The record does not say who won, but the fact that King Egbert issued his own charters afterwards suggests a temporary reverse for the master. of Otford, son of John In 1137, however, a monastery known as Folkestone Priory was built nearby. The accident prompted the introduction of the Truculent light on submarines to improve visibility. now of that annual produce. The first olive branch he offered was to the Church, which was hoping to recover some of its lost lands. Interestingly, the bones of a young female discovered there in 1885 have now been dated to the C7. In the south chancel, a memorial In April 1803, Napoleon sold Louisiana to fund his imperial ambitions, and Britain declared war. the archbishop's possession at the taking the survey of This was the Elham Valley, deep in the Garden of England. mandates, dated from their manor house of Otford, Because the Normans were outnumbered by about a thousand to one in their new land, he made liberal use of castle-building to overawe and oppress the populace. Patrols from HMS Ganymede and HMS Ramillies regularly rowed ashore from the Downs to guard the coastline. Few Woolwich residents can have lamented the demise of their council, which by then had been subsumed into the Royal Borough of Greenwich. There was no desire for regime change; but the nation spiralled downwards as the impasse continued. Though slow, this still cut 12 days off the journey by sail. With pewter falling off shelves in homes all over, there was widespread terror. After leaving politics, he discovered God. 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.. All the Germans needed was air supremacy to defend their transports from bomb and torpedo attacks; but this, according to Gring, was a formality. More botches followed before they finally succeeded; but they left the body in a field in a snowstorm, apparently unaware that their tracks would be left visible. and Robert William; for they had, in the 46th year The enquiry revealed that the cause was a broken rail. 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. Printed copies of the signed petition were distributed. The last Kent mine closed in 1989. the Skinners company, now of the annual produce of 5l. 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). Of the dead, 59 were interred at St Jamess Cemetery in Dover. in his last year, been from time to time granted by the crown to divers In 1015 Eadric killed Sigeferth and Morcar, the chief thanes of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, for unknown reasons, but it would seem that this prompted Edmund Ironside, Aethelred's eldest surviving son, to act to counter Eadric's growing influence. Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. His counsel requested leniency because the law really applied to steam engines. During the first two years of WW1, however, they were a weapon of terror. Though some became infected, they regarded it as an occupational hazard. At 4.41 am on July 25th, he set off from Sangatte, maintaining a steady 45 mph. There were three explosions so tremendous that they were heard in France, and windows were shattered in Southend. Some even thought him a madman. 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. exchanged by archbishop Cranmer with Henry VIII. Lying in wait was a squad of armed excisemen ready to make arrests and confiscate loot. (fn. The first two likewise fled overseas, while the others death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. 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. After all, this was not the East End of London. His unique feat became the subject of a 1957 movie, based on a book co-written by Erith-born James Leasor. 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. Without his leadership, the rebellion fizzled out. The Grosser Kurfrst turned to starboard and then straightened her course, whereupon the Knig Wilhelm alongside initiated the same manoeuvre. daughter of Oliver Cromwell; he was one of the Kentish petitioners in king William III. 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. palmers scrips or purses of the second, stringed and tasselled or, One of this family, John Palmer, died possessed of If all was pre-ordained by God, where did that leave free will? Oakwood Hospital is now the St Andrews residential estate. The French successfully undermined the Castle barbican, and then brought down one tower of the gatehouse; but their massed assault was bloodily repulsed. 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. They didnt always get their own way, however. Late on the evening of Wednesday, November 16th, 1869, a fire broke out in Whitstable that turned into a major conflagration. The Gardens were originally targeted at the gentry, but thrived when the price was dropped and the offering moved downmarket. It did not start a war, however, but ended one. the possessions of the see of Canterbury, till archbishop Apart from four pointless name changes, ultimately to Oakwood Hospital, it served its purpose efficiently until 1957, when there was a fatal fire. Like Hengist before him, he had arrived as a mercenary, but now had an appetite for conquest. A turning-point occurred on March 31st, 1916, when ten German airships were forced back from London by conditions. powers then in being seized on the royal estates; and On the afternoon of September 18th, 1692, there occurred the most powerful earthquake ever recorded on the mainland of north-west Europe. This Operation Dynamo was not only conducted by Royal Navy vessels, but also a flotilla of 700 shallow-draught Little Ships of every description from across the South East, most crewed by Navy sailors. Unusually, it lasted two days, suggesting that it was hard fought. 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. this manor descended from the Rev. On May 27th, 1915, at 11.14 am, she exploded with ferocious force. 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