The Battle of Assandun (or Essendune) [1] was fought between Danish and English armies on 18 October 1016. 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. Wreck of SS Richard Montgomery: Thames Richard Montgomery KC 7722 (Modified) (cropped) by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 3.0. (Cropped). of the same will to Thomas Lane, esq. He stopped to discover the grim reality. As at Gravesend 25 years earlier, conditions were perfect for a blaze, most buildings being close together, wooden, and coated with asphalt. In 1878, Captain James Templer from Greenwich set up and then commanded a School of Ballooning at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. Their magnum opus Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was complete, and manager Brian Epstein had just died. Hertfordshire. King William Is invasion in 1066 was a historic slice of opportunism consolidated by unparalleled brutality. 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. in the 44th year of that reign, had a grant in see of David Polhill, esq. 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. Work did once start at the Kentish end, but it was just a gesture. among the Saxons themselves, contending for glory They then overshot Calais and landed in a forest, where their achievement has a memorial. The case emphasised the importance of making the new Automatic Warning System generally available. Regarded as a gentleman among his peers, he eschewed violence and never stole from the poor. [4] The battle was a victory for Edmund,[2] who lost enough men that he returned to Wessex to raise another army. 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. A revolutionary called Basant Kumar Biswas lobbed a bomb into the howdah, killing a mahout behind and badly lacerating the viceroys back; the vicereine appeared unharmed. Zeppelins now appear great lumbering affairs of little practical use. There is no doubt about either the barbarity of his premeditated crime or his guilt. The first manned trial was planned for February 21st, 1916. Along with fellow Cantabrigians Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross, he formed a fifth column that cost countless British agents their lives. One went posthumously to Old Dovorian rugby international Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison, who was lost while leading an attack on the mole. This sect was centred on Pluckley and Smarden, where the cloth trade probably brought the community into contact with radical Protestant ideas from the Low Countries. The Bard, coincidentally, had an ancestor called Thomas Arden whod died shortly before. there is mention To France be words of invitation sent! staff into the dry ground, and that water immediately who rested with the archbishop at it several times both On Sunday, July 30th, 1978, the eyes of the world were on Leeds Castle. The Kent Area aggressively picketed mines around the country that were returning to work, including Arthur Scargills own Barrow Colliery. 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. of her nephews and nieces, which they were accordingly, next year, to Robert Parker, esq. It has been for some years possessed by the family of A big issue facing Christianity from the start was predestination. The battle took place at Otford, in the modern English county of Kent. Having won back the crown, he instantly changed his tune, ostentatiously giving a decent burial to the archbishop slain by his own men, and magnanimously letting bygones be bygones. Two miles further on, she ran into trouble. Domesday, in which record it is thus entered, under Though Canterbury had more than once experienced Viking aggression, nothing prepared it for what happened in 1011. Edmund then forced another Danish army to abandon its siege of London. Tens of thousands of Huguenots were slaughtered, prompting an exodus. Even so, in July 1909, a handful of contenders were determined to try their luck. 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. last-mentioned battle with the Danes was fought. Charles II. of Shoreham, by whom he had He decided on a siege. There were 49 fatalities, and 78 were injured. The local disturbance was so strong that entire buildings fell down, including churches. Whatever King Edward IIs other vices, the one that gave rise to the greatest antagonism was his indulgence of the gangster-like Despenser family. Its impact was spectacular in the English Channel, with freak waves that caused two dozen or more vessels to capsize; one passenger reported that his ship grounded five times on the seabed. It was opened in 1692 at the behest of Queen Mary II, who liked the idea of a naval equivalent of the Chelsea Hospital for soldiers. Siege of Dover: Old Bunyard, 2020. Soon afterwards there is evidence that the powerful King Offa of Mercia was having an unprecedented say in Kents internal affairs. The boat that made the most round-trips seven was Medway Queen, which can now be seen displayed at Gillingham Pier. 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. In desperation, two were thrown into the river, but it was too late to remove them all, and three or four exploded, to dramatic effect. The man with the noose was William Calcraft. Operation Sealion: IWM COL 238. After King Henry VI was captured in 1455, a sort of peace descended; but his French wife Margaret of Anjou continued to agitate for civil war. Demands was presented that eventually went well beyond those of the Spithead mutineers. On Friday, September 22nd, 1989, a 15-pound time-bomb went off at 8.22am in the Royal Marines depot in Deal. 13) This manor came afterwards to be 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. . It was Jack Cade who organised a distinctively Kentish uprising. It endured for 151 years, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries rendered it unfit for purpose. It led to the withdrawal of an entire class of locomotive. The consensus was that Gods will was supreme, but there was endless dispute about the detail. It only brought him a temporary reprieve. 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. 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. and chapter of Westminster, the present lessee being Its foundation date actually makes it the oldest continuously existing school in the world, the Kings School in Rochester (founded 604) being a relative stripling. At 15, he saved his brother from drowning in the Severn, and after joining the Merchant Navy was celebrated for leaping into the Atlantic to try and save a man overboard. 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. Among the survivors was Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, who at the time were top of the charts with Massachusetts. anno 1313, (fn. What followed set a precedent for all future thrillers involving balloon flights. burst forth, where the well called from thence St. Thomas's Well, now is, which afterwards plentifully supplied Of these, 890 RAF Meteors crashed, claiming 450 lives. several lands, now belonging to Charles Polhill, esq. the manor of Le Rye, in Otford, in the second year From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. whole of it, excepting the hall and the chapel, at the the crown, where it continues at this time. By then, future Transport Minister John Moore-Brabazon had become the first Briton to make a powered flight, five years after the Wrights. After leaving politics, he discovered God. Rumours circulated that he had honourably killed himself, and he was officially declared dead in 1999. There was no desire for regime change; but the nation spiralled downwards as the impasse continued. He had however omitted one decisive factor from his calculations: a few men and women dressed in blue uniforms. The Faversham witch trial of 1645 exposed the absurdity of charges brought as a means of silencing unwelcome women; but it was not exceptional. She strangely agreed to marry Jim Mollison eight hours after meeting him, but they did set aeronautic records together before getting divorced. The accident led to an embarrassing series of German courts martial that were intended to pin blame, and even embroiled the Kaiser. On the night of November 30th, a small fire was detected. According to legend, a madwoman found Williams body and unaccountably placed a garland on his and her own head, curing herself of her madness. The Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter led a daring mission up the Medway, first capturing the unsuspecting defences at Sheerness and then jumping the Gillingham Chain that was supposed to bar entry to Chatham Dockyard. Damage was estimated at over 10,000. This story of outstanding heroism travelled around the world. He had the ingenious idea of tackling German bombing raids by constructing an early version of an aircraft carrier, specifically by slinging a BE2c biplane under the AP1 airship so that it could be transported within range of enemy Zeppelins. One particularly startling accident took place on June 18th, 1951. 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 Gardens were originally targeted at the gentry, but thrived when the price was dropped and the offering moved downmarket. Hence the chalk hills rise on each There are 100 Charles would personally receive a monumental bribe from France, plus the help of French troops in case of rebellion. The hailstones measured almost an inch in diameter, and fell in torrents. He was in fact travelling with his mistress Ellen Ternan and her mother. The battle was lost, Audley was executed, and reparations were exacted. Ashby proved their collective guilt by reportedly going into ecstasy in court and expanding to a vast bigness. They were not flawless: for example, the name Pilgrims Way was enduringly applied to the wrong route. The train took 250 yards to stop. The high road from 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. The carriage toppled over, and the hop-pickers were pitched into the foaming waters. In consequence of which He defiantly ignored Cromwells decree that foreign ships must respectfully dip their flag when passing through the Channel. They were in fact called Lollards, meaning something like Mumblers. Aitken served seven months of an 18-month sentence for perjury, and the wife he had pressured to testify on his behalf left him. of Otford, he died 1719, He set sail for Denmark, taking with him his fathers noble hostages; and, at Sandwich, he paused to put them ashore. sixty acres of land, in trust, to be sold for the benefit The enquiry revealed that the cause was a broken rail. After retreating to London to regroup, Louis sent for a supply fleet from France. This manor, lordship, and seignory of Otford coming thus into the king's possessions, appears thenceforth the mansion itself, but vast heaps of rubbish and foundations, which cover near an acre of ground. Rochester missed out on founding the worlds oldest extant school, but was compensated with Britains longest-running hospital. at this place, made a great slaughter of them; after 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. In her hold are 286 2,000-pound bombs, 4,439 1,000-pounders and nearly 5,000 others that salvage experts could not remove. 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. He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. She broke into two, and sank in four minutes. On its third run, Maxim and his two crew went so fast that the plane broke its restraints. 11) As a finale, the structure would be spectacularly burned down. chaplain, and his successors, celebrating divine offices However, he was also found guilty of driving a horseless carriage, failing to have three persons in charge, and failing to display his name and address. 2). The chapel of Otford, annexed to the parsonage of Its most famous alumni are, There is no point in looking up Folkestone Abbey on Tripadvisor: it ceased to exist many centuries ago. [1] Aethelred was invited by the English to return and Cnut was driven out of his base at Gainsborough after an English attack found him unprepared. The last and best remembered sea-battle off Sandwich occurred in 1460 during the Wars of the Roses. Edmund 'Ironside' recreation of 2nd Battle of Otford (1016) fame. What made matters worse was that the Metropolitan Board of Works had just pumped 75 million gallons of raw sewage into the river at that point. John Jeffries and Jean-Pierre Blanchard, an American and a Frenchman, came to Dover Castle to attempt a crossing of the English Channel by hydrogen balloon. It was in fact one of the bloodiest civilian incidents of the War. The accident was blamed on a faulty primer. With the French planning an invasion of England, it was designed to prevent them using the recently completed Ostend-Bruges canal to transport troops. see, in the 4th year of the Conqueror's reign, anno render it very moist and marshy, yet it is here rather fertile. After this palace, with its parks and appurtenances, After decades of low wages and high taxes, the spread of threshing machines was the last straw for farmworkers. The winds are reckoned to have been equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane. 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. By August, the nation was at war with itself. On June 1st, he was confronted by a force of 4,000 New Model Army veterans under Sir Thomas Fairfax. the chalk banks on each side of it. Otford, by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Ireton, by Bridget, The liberty of the duchy of Lancaster claims over a Her life ended tragically. He allowed the heavily laden French fleet to pass Sandwich before setting sail, looping behind them to attack from the windward. 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. He circulated a manifesto called The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent, airing the peoples grievances. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. The flashpoint was her decision to marry the Catholic King of Spain, Philip II, prompting a conspiracy by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Sir Peter Carew, Sir James Croft, and Lady Janes father, the Duke of Suffolk. 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? whose son, Sir Charles Farnaby Radcliffe, bart. The church, which is situated at the east end of the king's licence purchased lands and meadows here, One of the biggest challenges facing the English Commonwealth under Cromwell was the mercantile strength of the Dutch Republic. which it remained at the coming of Lanfranc to that of Colletwell, and to have been for many years the 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. His stance contrasted strikingly with that of Indias previous overlords, the Moghul Empire, whose founder Mrz Zahr ud-Dn Muhammad avowedly detested India, and tolerated Indians only as a source of riches. LITTLE PARK, part of those possessions likewise The brainchild of martial arts expert Lee Murray-Lamrani, it was even bigger, better organised and more slickly executed than the Great Train Robbery of 1963, but like its predecessor was undone by carelessness during the money-laundering stage. His 36-minute flight had turned a page in the history of aviation. of Cheapstead, son of Thomas Polhill, esq. of Maidstone, 1699, t. There village towards Chevening. The Adelaide was last seen late on the Saturday evening from a lightship 15 miles north of Margate. Dover incident: Old Bunyard, 2020. 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. They also coped badly with rough seas, when progress was slow and passengers arrived green about the gills. The encounter was all perfectly civilised. He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. Being a Sheerness resident is not that different from living on the side of Vesuvius. 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. As a student in the 1930s, he made no secret of his Communist leanings, and was recruited by the NKVD. Leeds Castle, east of Maidstone, looks so tranquil that it is hard to imagine serious conflict there. At length it was starvation that did for them. He married a string of women at least nine to extract money from them, whatever it took. It battered the town for hours, as monstrous waves up to road level flooded the streets. Even so, England could consider itself lucky. 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