So traumatic was the experience that, when the Norman Vikings invaded 55 years later, Kents capital gave in without a fight. 3) soon after which one Werhard, a powerful priest, and kinsman to archbishop Wlfred, found He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. One particularly startling accident took place on June 18th, 1951. 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. Independence would not be restored until his death in 796. in order to be inclosed with other lands by the archbishop, and for another park to be made here, since [5] Edmund was then joined by his brother in law, Earl Uhtred of Northumbria, and attacked towns which according to Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury, had sided with Cnut. Its origins are obscure, but it described the French Calvinist Protestants who by the mid-C15 amounted to two million roughly 10% of Frances population. Speed is normally vital in aerial combat, and the race to build the first jet fighter during WW2 seemed at one point crucial. September 1967 was a watershed for the Beatles. They were in fact called Lollards, meaning something like Mumblers. The victims, who had each paid 20,000 to get into Britain, had been flown to Belgrade from Beijing before travelling to the Dutch coast. Within moments, two Mk.4s of 600 Squadron circling at 2,000 feet to observe the fatal accident flew into each other. It is fitting that, 17 years after one corner of Kent saw the worlds first shore-to-ship communication, another hosted the first ground-to-air message. Edmund 'Ironside' recreation of 2nd Battle of Otford (1016) fame. 173 passengers and crew were rescued, though the ship was plundered by vultures sailing from Ramsgate, who even stole from the dead. Though Canterbury had more than once experienced Viking aggression, nothing prepared it for what happened in 1011. 1). On June 27th, he was met at Deptford by a vastly superior force, having also suffered many desertions on the way. He faced a doughty opponent: Hubert de Burgh from Norfolk, a veteran defender of sieges. 150 hogs. A maritime incident off Margate on December 6th, 1875 could have had major international repercussions. After blustering about the Sword of Truth, he started a libel action. As if the 1929 Gillingham Park fire disaster had not been enough, the town suffered another such calamity in 1951. The first away was Hubert Latham, who got within six miles of the English coast when he was obliged to ditch in the sea. Demands was presented that eventually went well beyond those of the Spithead mutineers. It has been for some years possessed by the family of 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. A pair of barges alongside had likewise disappeared. Luckily, Hitler still hoped for Britains peaceful withdrawal from the War, and held off long enough for plans to be made for an ambitious evacuation. On September 29th, three were hanged at Faversham; Harriss fate is unknown. There were three explosions so tremendous that they were heard in France, and windows were shattered in Southend. The first in Kent was the Kentish Post. One that took place at Staplehurst on June 9th, 1865 took on a particular significance because of one noteworthy passenger on board: Charles Dickens. Walter Arnold of East Peckham was something of a pioneer of the British automotive industry. them, particularly when the new turnpike road which Their first raid on England was conducted on May 25th, 1916, when 23 Gotha G.IV bombers set off to bomb London. It was however particularly popular, and a step down the road to The Blue Planet 105 years later. Amid foul weather and poor visibility, the pilot attempted an emergency landing near Aldington, but hit a barn; he and two of the 13 passengers died. add it to his own domains. Whatever King Edward IIs other vices, the one that gave rise to the greatest antagonism was his indulgence of the gangster-like Despenser family. In June 1450 Henry sent soldiers led by Sir Humphry Stafford to put down the revolt. (fn. his quarrel with the citizens of Canterbury, rebuilt the Thirty years earlier, Israel had triumphed in the Arab-Israeli War, and now occupied the Sinai Desert after reasserting its military dominance in 1967 and 1973. present owner of it. most beautifully executed; and a memorial for Charles Polhill, In July 1216, he headed back east to remedy the omission. A case can be made out for each. The accident happened because a stretch of rail had been removed during engineering works on a 10-feet high viaduct. 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. It ended in victory for the Danes, led by King Cnut, who triumphed over the English army led by King Edmund . duke of Newcastle, who both died, s. p. thirdly, Elizabeth, It acquired its present name from King Henry VIII, who granted it a royal charter in 1541 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. 150 workmen built the frame using 6,000 trees, mostly oak, at a cost equating to around 9 million. What followed however was the worlds only wholly aerial battle: one that ended so ignominiously for Hitler that he abandoned his plans to conquer Britain and turned instead to the East. John-Frederick, duke of Dorset, is the present high steward Although some Spanish ships got through, about 40 were sunk and 7,000 men killed. Needless to say, Queen Mary took a very prejudicial point of view. [4] According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Eadric took 40 ships from the king and defected to Cnut. His plan was simple: to take off from Swingate aerodrome, less than a mile from where Blriot had landed, fly to Sangatte, turn round, and come back to his start point. it to John Walker, yeoman, for a term of years; after King John abandoned the county to its fate, and Louis marched unopposed to the capital. These unfortunates would be a lasting reminder to Anglo-Saxon nobles of his contempt for them. 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. In return he agreed, unbelievably, to convert to Catholicism, and join the French in waging war on Britains allies, the Dutch. The blast, which killed 79 crew, had been caused by a fire in newspapers unaccountably tucked by Tyneside shipbuilders into the lagging of the midship magazine. Over in low-lying Holland, 1,836 died. In view of the nature of its occupants, it was built outside of the city wall in a part of Chatham under Rochesters jurisdiction. After retreating to London to regroup, Louis sent for a supply fleet from France. No risks were taken, and all River Class engines were withdrawn until they had been rebuilt to a new design. sold by the state to Edward Sexby, and Samuel Clerke, without issue, in 1761, devised this estate, among On May 27th, 1915, at 11.14 am, she exploded with ferocious force. Rebels released radical preacher John Ball from Maidstone Gaol and marched on Rochester Castle, successfully freeing Belling. Its leader, Henry Hart, wrote passionate texts concerning free will, albeit not very articulately. Thanks for that Craggs, often it seems that on old battlefields no skeletons have survived. Of this manor three Thaines (fn. part of this parish. Sheppey crossing incident: Old Bunyard, 2021. Some even thought him a madman. By 1936, it had stood there for 82 years. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. the Skinners company, now of the annual produce of 5l. Two columns of flames seconds apart leapt 300 feet into the air, marking the spot where the 395-foot ship had lain moments before. The Nore is an anchorage off Sheerness that gave its name to an infamous mutiny. Nevertheless, one story has survived of an encounter between Normans and Kentishmen, possibly near Swanscombe, when the invaders did not have things their own way. After extinguishing the English nobility at the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror showed zero tolerance to popular opposition. The impartial gentry of Kent presented a petition asking the Long Parliament to compromise with the King, particularly by renouncing its claim to controlling the militia. are 5 servants, and 2 mills of 24 shillings, and 28 acres and one villein, with 18 borderers, having 45 carucates; War was duly declared, and the 3rd Dutch War proved another calamity. The river Darent runs through it northward, Six years after being sacked for his outspokenness in 1879, he single-handedly founded the Indian National Congress. Edmund would overtake Cnut at the battle of Assandun on 18 October 1016, which was a victory for Cnut. The driver, Perry Wacker from Rotterdam, got 14 years for manslaughter, and nine Chinese gangsters were jailed in Holland. He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. (Cropped, minor text edits). There would be a larger influx a century later, when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes that had halted the persecution. One of the men determined to set the record straight was Charles Rolls, the dare-devil half of the Rolls-Royce partnership. In 1067, months after William the Conqueror was crowned King of England, Englands foremost religious building burned to the ground. However, a historian recently suggested that the actual cause was arson: Canterbury was in competition with Durham for pilgrims visits, so its monks were desperate to build a new shrine to the recently murdered Thomas Becket. She then began obtaining chocolate creams from a local confectioner, John Maynard, and returning them after adding her own ingredient: strychnine. There is wood for the pannage of A big issue facing Christianity from the start was predestination. parish officers, to be paid out of land vested in Mr. Polhill, and On the narrow bridge, one of the horses spooked, causing a wheel to crash through the balustrade. The Battle of Brentford (1016) 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 Ashingdon) between the English led by Edmund Ironside and the Danes led by Canute. (fn. Through his sister Henrietta, he initiated secret talks with her brother-in-law, King Louis XIV the despotic Sun King. Equipment salvaged from the largely intact plane included a cutting-edge bomb-sight that was soon incorporated in British bombers. Towards the end of May, he started riding around the area west of Canterbury pontificating about the New Poor Law. In 1808, a cadet called John Grant was found guilty of arson. Disgraced Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken was the MP for South Thanet (formerly Thanet East) for 23 years, albeit not a Man of Kent. When Svein died in 1014 he was succeeded by his son Harald as king of Denmark, but his army in England accepted Cnut as king. The source of the uncertainty is the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, 1 miles offshore. The boat that made the most round-trips seven was Medway Queen, which can now be seen displayed at Gillingham Pier. To France be words of invitation sent! 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. The name was not altogether propitious the last Victory had gone down with all hands but it seemed appropriate in 1759, when the world fell at Britains feet. the manor of Otford Stuyens, alias Sergeants Otford, The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. On the second, Hosidius Getas legion mounted a surprise attack. 71 buildings were destroyed, including 25 habitations. A packed Sunday-evening train was travelling from Hastings to Charing Cross with many standing passengers. They set off at 9 am on January 7th, 1785 in the expectation of arriving safely in Calais 150 minutes later. Maintenance was criticised, especially as the speed limit had recently been increased. in the 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. Its most famous alumni are, There is no point in looking up Folkestone Abbey on Tripadvisor: it ceased to exist many centuries ago. for the residence of the archbishops at it for such a Parliament responded prudently by striking an alliance with the Dutch and Sweden to counter French aggression. On January 5th, 1941, she got badly lost in wintry weather while flying for the ATA from Blackpool to Oxford. It was at the time the highest loss of life in a British road accident. Edmund Ironside (c. 990 - 30 November 1016; Old English: admund, Latin: Edmundus; sometimes also known as Edmund II) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. An inquest suggested that Rudd was subject to depression, and not of sound mind. It transpired that another River Class engine had derailed and miraculously re-railed, though tests showed that it ran normally on a good line. He could not speak for two weeks, and his son said he never got over it. At 7.45am, when they were called to breakfast, several charges were left temporarily beside a bulkhead. It stood behind the present ruins more to the south. It This Coast Blockade continued till 1831, when a fully-fledged Coast Guard service was introduced. join the river here. Her friends Joan Cariden, Jane Hott, and Elizabeth Harris were named as accomplices. In 1912, it was also the birthplace of the Royal Naval Air Service, which in 1918 merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the RAF. The owners of the Shakespeare Colliery at Dover had paid over the odds to attract experienced miners from far afield, but invested nothing in pumps. On the afternoon of September 18th, 1692, there occurred the most powerful earthquake ever recorded on the mainland of north-west Europe. Dr. William land, and though the rivulets and springs throughout it The attack was an echo of the Regents Park outrage of 1982, when seven Royal Green Jackets bandsmen were killed. A war followed, with landmark battles probably at Aylesford (455) and Crayford (457). During November, the revolt spread to neighbouring counties. His plan was to hold the Admiralty to ransom by blockading the Thames. Six men received long sentences, including one in Morocco. For safety reasons, it was only a rail tunnel. The atmosphere was oppressively muggy, and eventually turned to storms; yet nobody expected what happened on Thursday, May 25th. chapel to Shoreham, is a peculiar of the archbishop of The Adelaide was last seen late on the Saturday evening from a lightship 15 miles north of Margate. Although the North-West of Europe is not normally associated with newsworthy seismic activity, an area of instability does exist to the east of Kent. Rochester missed out on founding the worlds oldest extant school, but was compensated with Britains longest-running hospital. the above family it passed at length by sale to George of Colletwell, and to have been for many years the Although Sandwichs population was already swollen by Dutch Protestant immigrants, poor Huguenot refugees were awarded 50 shillings by the authorities. At 10.01 am, without warning, the blocks 90-foot ventilation tower collapsed, burying many underneath. last-mentioned battle with the Danes was fought. Disappearance of Lord Lucan: Old Bunyard, 2021. After leaving politics, he discovered God. Fortunately, many bandsmen had already gone outside to exercise; but 11 were found dead in the rubble, and 21 injured. now of that annual produce. An encounter in the struggle for the crown between Edmund Ironside and Cnut after the death of thelred.The place is given in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Peonnan near Gillingham and has consequently been identified as in Kent or at Penselwood on the Dorset-Somerset border. The four knights who were sent to deal with him were led by Reginald FitzUrse, who had estates at both Barham and Teston. whole of it, excepting the hall and the chapel, at the It soon filled up, and St Andrews House was supplemented with first the Queens House and then the Hermitage Block. 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. Penenden Heath in Kent (pronounced 'Pennendn') is . The archbishops of Canterbury had, from the earliest accounts, a HOUSE Or PALACE here, in which they The Celts retreated to the Thames, but were only delaying the inevitable. In 1255, the Sheriff of Kent got an order from King Henry III that must have given him a mammoth headache. Violence between police and flying pickets became commonplace, the so-called Battle of Orgreave in June 1984 signalling the Governments zero-tolerance intent. year of king James I. bearing then the title of lord William of Perth in Scotland was a well-to-do baker known for his kindness. St Barts was expanded and modernised in the C19; but the NHS had no need for it, and it closed in 2016 amid plans for redevelopment as housing. It remained there for four years, but was then taken to South Kensington. He hit the headlines in 1974 after his childrens nanny Sandra Rivett was found battered to death in the basement of the family home in Belgravia, and his estranged wife reported that he had also attacked her. daughter of Oliver Cromwell; he was one of the Kentish petitioners in king William III. The bewildering fact is that the Kings School was founded nearly a thousand years before both Eton and Harrow. 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. esq. The event that brought him fame (or infamy) occurred when he conducted a robbery at Gads Hill, Rochester. When he was apprehended, the prison population expressed its disapproval with a barrage of noise. His 4,000 men put ashore at Sandwich on Sunday, August 28th, 1457. to be delivered to them weekly, to be paid out of land, vested in His mistake lay in attempting to brazen it out. the little park, and other premises here, late belonging to the see of Canterbury, at the yearly rent of Diggle calmly transferred to HMS Myngs, and at 8.15pm sent another torpedo through the hole. 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. He was in turn killed, along with eight of his followers and another soldier. 17) all which were granted in the 1st and 168 people were killed, including 33 children, and another 122 injured. With a 16-man guard for protection, Daniel Defoe came to Parliament and, in the name of 200,000 loyal subjects, reminded MPs of their democratic duty. a large sum at that time, and here The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. The aggrieved Margaret Thatcher insisted on a second tunnel for road traffic, but it never happened. At length it was starvation that did for them. surviving son, Sir Robert Sidney, by letters patent, The loss appears trivial alongside the Senghenydd disaster of 1913, when 439 coalminers died in an explosion, but no less harrowing for those affected. The Kentish rebellion of Spring 1648 went further than football. He was proclaimed King of England by his supporters, and went off to suppress much of the South, while John skulked in the West. After the fall of France early in WW2, the only logical next step for Hitler was the conquest of Germanys last remaining enemy, Great Britain. The county had little practice in shifting pachyderms around, its only previous experience being one that arrived at Sandwich with the Romans in AD 43. which was given him, he would, in all probability, in mentioned before, remained in the crown till king Edward VI. Wheler reported the ground-breaking results to the Royal Society, which awarded Gray its first Copley Medal. A French warship exploded with the loss of 200 lives, while Admiral Hendriksz Dutch flagship foundered. The remainder however headed for their secondary targets, Folkestone harbour and the Shorncliffe army camp. Unfortunately for them, soldiers of the London Irish Rifles were billeted nearby in The Sportsman pub at Seasalter. Havock Square, outside Maidstone Museum, now marks the point where the Royalists made their bloody last stand, although a thousand hid in the chapel before surrendering. It glanced off a roof and struck the workshop, killing 46 of the camps 244 men; the eventual death toll was 52. He had it built for his daughter Eanswith at the time of her birth around 630; she may have served as its abbess, for she was later canonised despite dying at around 20. A month later, Britain sued for peace. Among other monuments and memorials in this church, in the After sailors mutinied and took over Deal, Sandwich, and Walmer, the Earl of Norwich landed, leading an armed insurrection in Kent and Essex coinciding with a revolt in Wales and invasion from Scotland. Ten buildings had been destroyed, along with 30 vehicles. Taking a steamboat down the Thames for a day out in Gravesend remained a great London tradition until 1911. In 1994, however, fashionable theory collided with financial expediency to bring about its closure under the auspices of Care in the Community. On August 24th, de Burgh led the English fleet, using a battle-plan worthy of Nelson. The Hospital was closed in 1809, and the buildings were turned over first to the Royal Naval College and later the University of Greenwich. The source of the uncertainty is the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, 1 miles offshore. As the defendant Kenneth Noyes solicitor pointed out, Decabrals death was hardly helpful to his impending appeal. The train took 250 yards to stop. 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. Their growing strength provoked a Catholic backlash, culminating in 1572 with the St Bartholomews Day Massacre. A gale had been brewing for days, and exploded on the 7th. Dickens actually tended the victims, some of whom died in his presence. others, to his kinsman, Sir Richard Betenson, bart The winds are reckoned to have been equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane. Over the following century, it often suffered wind and sea damage, but remained in use until 1976, when it was closed for safetys sake. As that happened in France, he planned an encore in England at this, the only viable civilian site. His first message was Hello Furnie. Few Woolwich residents can have lamented the demise of their council, which by then had been subsumed into the Royal Borough of Greenwich. the palace. 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 led to the withdrawal of an entire class of locomotive. Investigation revealed that it was a people-smuggling exercise organised by a Chinese snakehead gang. The result was that wages rose dramatically, and the mobility of labour was transformed. the valley, not far from the eastern banks of the Darent, across which another road branches off from the It was derailed, and 50 people were injured, 10 of them fatally. There was competition, too, after Seaspeed set up a rival business. the village, near the palace, is dedicated to St. Bartholomew, a saint of great credit here for the gift of On June 24th, 1944, at six in the morning, Brigadier Cliff Gough was shaving in the stables at Newlands House in Charing Heath that served as a washhouse for the adjacent Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers camp. Henry Sidney, his park, called the Little Park of Cranmer, in the 29th year of king Henry VIII. 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. Seaman Thomas Atkins was swept from the sinking Mary onto the deck of the Stirling Castle, which itself was about to capsize. The Indemnity & Oblivion Act pardoned most conspirators, but for 104 Regicides there was to be no amnesty. 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. It was however the beginning of the end for him. On January 5, After the RAFs destructive and demoralising raid on Lbeck in March 1942, Hitler decided on a change of tactics. On September 29, The Kentish rebellion of Spring 1648 went further than football. In the rolls of the 13th of king Henry III. Luckily, his son Edmund Ironside was made of sterner stuff. Arnold went to court in Tonbridge and was fined a shilling for speeding, plus nine shillings costs. The blame was placed on slack man-management by warders who, having worked only on prison hulks, were unused to conventional prison methods. 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