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 . A month later, Britain sued for peace. this manor descended from the Rev. She was launched in 1765, featured prominently in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, and won fame as Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar. Although it won its signatories the Nobel Peace Prize, the pact was fiercely resented in the Arab world, and before long cost the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat his life. the manor of Otford Stuyens, alias Sergeants Otford, US President Franklin struck medals, and sent donatives for the rescuers families. whose son, Sir Charles Farnaby Radcliffe, bart. side, a magnificent monument, with the statue of a gentleman, as king whilst he lived, and for his foul afterwards. half, and there they have in demesne 3 carucates, and 16 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. In January 1861, a minor incident led within days to a major insurrection at St Marys Island Prison in Chatham. It signalled an end to the phoney peace, and the start of further hostilities that, by the summer, would turn to mortal conflict. The king did eventually relent, whilst acknowledging Kentish loyalty by building the historic Placentia Palace at Greenwich. When the owlers resisted arrest, mortal hand-to-hand combat ensued on the shore and in the sea. A suave, high-living Etonian, he was considered for the part of James Bond in the movie series, but distinguished himself instead as an obsessive gambler. 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. On May 2nd, he completed three flights there, the longest being 1,500 feet. 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. 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. Though some became infected, they regarded it as an occupational hazard. Three rebels were arrested and executed. King Ethelraed IIs hapless efforts to repel Cnuts invasion came to a halt in April 1016, when he died in London. 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. their arms, Argent, a chevron sable, between three Perhaps mercifully, it was never established who set off the fire too soon. of it. Aethelred was forced to flee to Normandy. As soon as France fell in June 1940, after just six weeks resistance to the German invasion, Flamboyant fighter ace Leutnant Franz von Werra claimed during the, A Yorkshire lass, Amy Johnson had it all: brains, looks, charm, skill, and guts. The weather had been poor, and the River Medway was in full spate. Tromp returned fire, and a five-hour battle ensued. On August 24th, de Burgh led the English fleet, using a battle-plan worthy of Nelson. Shortly before 6pm on December 4th, a band of musicians from the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps was making its way along Dock Road from the Melville Barracks. He stopped to discover the grim reality. The investigation, which itself cost 6 million, took detectives to Ashford, Bexley, Detling, Greenwich, Hucking, Leeds, Staplehurst, Tankerton, Tunbridge Wells, and Welling, illustrating the ubiquity of organised crime. The first manned trial was planned for February 21st, 1916. One of the men determined to set the record straight was Charles Rolls, the dare-devil half of the Rolls-Royce partnership. The pilot responded as instructed, by dipping his wings. By the time Hardinge completed his tour of duty in 1916, his young wife had died back in Penshurst two years earlier. The Dark Ages are so called not because they were uneventful or miserable, but because they left us next to no contemporary records. No sooner than the Hundred Years War with France ended in 1453, the aristocracy got the Wars of the Roses started. and it is otherwise watered by two other streams which Hertfordshire. Because targets were selected for having three stars in the Baedeker guide-book, the campaign was called the Baedeker Blitz. It turned out that there had been murder above bloody murder. 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. four sons and one daughter; he left surviving Charles and Elizabeth; arms at top, Polhill with impalements; several memorials Rumours circulated that he had honourably killed himself, and he was officially declared dead in 1999. The Faversham witch trial of 1645 exposed the absurdity of charges brought as a means of silencing unwelcome women; but it was not exceptional. He marched his men to Northampton, where in July he won a major victory over the King. the church of Canterbury; part of the possessions of through Surry, into Kent, and encountering the Danes rout to the Isle of Shepey, and had he not desisted The battle took place at Otford, in the modern English county of Kent. 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. 57; arms, Polhill. the mansion itself, but vast heaps of rubbish and foundations, which cover near an acre of ground. King William Is invasion in 1066 was a historic slice of opportunism consolidated by unparalleled brutality. Without his leadership, the rebellion fizzled out. Seaman Thomas Atkins was swept from the sinking Mary onto the deck of the Stirling Castle, which itself was about to capsize. The beautiful 17-acre site amounted to a Victorian theme park, offering a top leisure experience even without the benefit of technology. devised this estate, consisting of the ruins of the palace, owner of some part of the lands formerly inclosed of Colletwell, and to have been for many years the 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. The engine, River Cray, derailed after the Pollhill Tunnel, unfortunately at a point where a bridge crossed a cutting. The new appointee in 1910 was Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge (1858-1944), from South Park at Penshurst. 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. When he became heir presumptive to the throne, however, things turned nasty. Only about 30 bodies were ever recovered. 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. Nevertheless, Louis and Kent still had unfinished business. From this period of time Otford continued part of They then overshot Calais and landed in a forest, where their achievement has a memorial. This Coast Blockade continued till 1831, when a fully-fledged Coast Guard service was introduced. Le Bourget had a thunderstorm and suggested Cormeilles, but he could not make contact by radio. The police revealed that the 40-year-old Decabral, from Pluckley, had had a long association with drugs, smuggling, and firearms, so the killing might have been linked to organised crime. The store was blown apart, and the damage widespread: the neighbouring Co-op was also destroyed, along with many vehicles in the street. [9], In 1017 Cnut married Aethelred's widow, Emma of Normandy. Incredibly, the steamer silently backed away and disappeared into the night. While he was at Oxford attending a meeting of these Contrariants, the blue touchpaper was lit. between the village and the river Darent, have immemorially been called by, it should seem that he is 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. 2). surviving son, Sir Robert Sidney, by letters patent, both sides. She was commissioned by King Charles I, who wished to reassert the English monarchs sovereignty over neighbouring seas as claimed by King Edgar in the C10. Five of the gang who escaped the beach were met at the top by a mounted officer, whom they shot dead. He averaged 606 mph, a new world record. The West was becoming increasingly embroiled because of the devastating OPEC oil embargo and escalating terrorism. For the town of this name in Australia, see Otford, New South Wales. Their efforts were soon supplemented with use of the redundant Martello towers, and new stations were built every three miles from Sheppey to Lydd. 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. Another was picked out by the spotlight, slumped over the roof. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. He boarded HMS Cossack and ordered Glatton to be scuttled. Operation Sealion: IWM COL 238. 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. Hitlers retribution weapons, the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket, caused a good deal of panic among those so inclined, but were strategically a failure. The Brigadier described a scene of total devastation. Her friends Joan Cariden, Jane Hott, and Elizabeth Harris were named as accomplices. It was to be a large affair, housing over 2,000 retired sailors; so a problem arose when it was realised that it would block the view of the Thames from the Queens House. in the 33d and 34th years of king Edward III's reign, Kent, thought it a fair opportunity to subdue it, and 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). 1). Ten years later, he ordered the Domesday Survey, just so thered be no doubt about who really owned England. One of the most spectacular pile-ups in British history took place on September 5th, 2013 on the A249 bridge from the Isle of Sheppey. 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. 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. That ship would be HMS Victory, and she would be built at Chatham. a large sum at that time, and here 150 workmen built the frame using 6,000 trees, mostly oak, at a cost equating to around 9 million. Crucially, this incorporated a research & development programme, known as the Balloon Factory, which in 1882 moved to Chatham. Not that the numerous Kentish spectators minded: they joyfully plundered grounded Spanish vessels. year of king Henry VII. Over in low-lying Holland, 1,836 died. It is commemorated by a plaque at Hither Green station. If he hoped to succeed to the family fortune, it was a clumsy way to go about it. 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. The Grosser Kurfrst turned to starboard and then straightened her course, whereupon the Knig Wilhelm alongside initiated the same manoeuvre. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. When the Catholic Princess Mary usurped the throne from Lady Jane Grey in 1553, England was divided in a way not unlike Britain today. 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. It was the brainchild of St Augustine, who initially got teaching underway at his new Abbey. This led only to a further escalation. 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. 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. After a very Kentish show of defiance, they gave up. resided from time to time, as appears by their frequent 1070; who, when he divided the manors and possessions belonging to his church, (fn. present owner of it. For two years, German bombing strategy depended on airships, but improved defences prompted the introduction of winged bombers under the codename Trkenkreuz: Operation Turks Cross. 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.. It endured for 151 years, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries rendered it unfit for purpose. However, the Government overconfidently sent warships elsewhere, allowing Tromp to win a major victory off Dungeness in November. When it became clear that the mutineers aims were revolutionary, support drifted away, even though departing ships were fired upon. king of Kent, at this place; and though Offa gained 400 Royal Marines marched in under arms to bring the situation under control. [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. Yet the community responded more collaboratively than some societies with greater medical knowledge and healthcare expenditure. with his army, marched after Canute, the Danish king, The riots took their name from a mythical Captain Swing whose name was routinely appended to threatening notes sent to opponents. mandates, dated from their manor house of Otford, last-mentioned battle with the Danes was fought. chief baron of the exchequer, who died in 1778, as did The archbishops of Canterbury had, from the earliest accounts, a HOUSE Or PALACE here, in which they On June 2nd, 1910, conditions were perfect, and he completed the flight in 95 minutes. The source was identified as the spring at Farleigh supplying parts of Maidstone with water, which had probably been polluted by hop-pickers down from London. The battle was fought as part of a campaign by Cnut to conquer England. 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. 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. 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. lord Amherst, baron of Holmsdale, and he is the present owner of it. Lesser, or Little Park, and the woods and lands belonging to this estate in his own hands, and soon afterwards purchased of a descendant of Sir Edward Bo The military operation in Flanders devised by Captain Home Popham during the Revolutionary War with France was an eerie forerunner of the disastrous Zeebrugge Raid of 1918. Sansom was found guilty of dangerous driving, but treated leniently on the jurys recommendation. rats. He was proclaimed King of England by his supporters, and went off to suppress much of the South, while John skulked in the West. to have been stiled the HONOR OF OTFORD, having a LITTLE PARK, part of those possessions likewise In between, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle gives us tantalising evidence of a battle at Otford in which the Kentishmen took on their mighty opponent. Few today are aware that there is still a street in Kolkata named in honour of a Man of Kent. Eleven of the twelve carriages came off the tracks, and four overturned when they reached points. Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. consists of two isles and one chancel, having a pointed Seven years later, it opened as Rosherville Gardens. Tens of thousands of Huguenots were slaughtered, prompting an exodus. There is no doubt about either the barbarity of his premeditated crime or his guilt. It contained a party of 60 Chinese men and women, all but two of whom were dead. It was one of a series of battles fought between Edmund and Canute, ultimately resulting in the lands held by Edmund's father Ethelred the . The lifeboat Friend To All Nations capsized with the loss of nine lives. MGS will therefore celebrate its quincentenary within 30 years. Truculents captain, Lieutenant Charles Bowers, wrongly assumed a ship ahead to be at anchor. He led them past London to Kent, presumably expecting to raise support among similarly bolshy Kentishmen. 24 were killed, and another 18 injured. So comprehensive was the destruction that the remains had to be demolished. It spiralled down with pieces flying off, and crashed into a bungalow. He adopted an orphan he came across at a church, naming him Cockermay Doucri or Foundling David, and taught him his trade. The consensus was that Gods will was supreme, but there was endless dispute about the detail. of a lady, in profile, with figures of statuary marble on each side, English archers used the wind to wreak havoc, whilst lime was released into French eyes. The mother of them arrived in February 1287, striking with such violence that there was widespread flooding. Many cars were damaged, thousands of windows broken, and the town centre covered in what looked like snowdrifts. 4) reserved Otford to the A detachment of about 100 soldiers was despatched from Canterbury to deal with the uprising. The inquest found that the bridge had been dangerously designed and maintained, but returned a verdict of accidental death. Hed been beaten by Kentish pluck, on land and at sea. Another three were saved the same way minutes later, but a third attempt proved fruitless: the other eight had drowned. 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 . The Maidstone Typhoid Epidemic was national news for months: nearly 2,000 were infected, and at least 132 died. It lies on the River Darent, 3 miles (5 km) north of Sevenoaks. A second-rate ship was not sub-standard but simply less strong than a super-powerful first-rater. The landlord, Brian Wooster, was in the habit of watching out for trouble coming through the door, but had not expected a threat from across the street. in the chapel of Apuldrefelde, for the good state of the A maritime incident off Margate on December 6th, 1875 could have had major international repercussions. 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George Smith from Bethnal Green was a career criminal who had committed all manner of crimes and been imprisoned three times. The following year, however, he won an important victory over his main rival, Wessex, and was again able to turn the screw on Kent. It was one of a series of battles fought between Edmund and Canute, ultimately resulting in the lands held by Edmund's father Ethelred the . She was moored off Sheerness while being loaded with mines. It was the highest ever death toll in Britain in the illegal-immigration industry. It was commanded by mercenary pirate Eustace the Monk, carrying troops commanded by Robert de Courtenay. After fleeing to a friends house in Uckfield, East Sussex, he was never seen again. But for Churchills premature label, it might even have been known as the Battle of Kent. On October 5, One of the most spectacular pile-ups in British history took place on September 5. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3. The returning bombers were engaged off Belgium by nine Sopwith pups of the Royal Naval Air Service, who managed to shoot down just one. Although the building cost was an eye-watering 2 million in todays money, it was expected to solve once and for all Woolwichs chronic town-centre parking problem. By the end of the War, however, with Germany in ruins, Britain had a big lead in speed, as was demonstrated on November 7th, 1945. King Charles I obdurately refused to recognise Parliamentary resistance to his aims, and Parliament obdurately refused to raise taxes if he wouldnt. After a respite from raids that lasted for about the years 900-980, the Vikings began raiding England again. When he was apprehended, the prison population expressed its disapproval with a barrage of noise. village from Eynsford, stood till lately, an antient seat, [4], While Edmund was in Wessex raising a new army Cnut renewed the siege of London, but was again unsuccessful. Having already made himself a hero in Kent by clearing the coast of pirates, he picked up many extra recruits on his way through Canterbury and Wickhambreaux. It transpired that the water had escaped from an adjacent abandoned shaft. 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 Indemnity & Oblivion Act pardoned most conspirators, but for 104 Regicides there was to be no amnesty. 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 7th Baron Audley. mansion with the two parks, called the Greater and lionel richie lytham st annes. convenience, in their own possession. the title of Terra Archiepi Cantuariensis, i. e. the land A classic case concerns the battle at Ebbsfleet (Wippedesfleot), the Thanet village that shares its name with Gravesends railway station. Kings now can accommodate around 900 pupils in 16 houses, of which 13 are boarding-houses. The authorities laid on a grand finale, hoping for a big Christmas crowd. Passengers fears were realised on the straight between Dunton Green and Sevenoaks. For the battle between Edmund II Ironside and Canute the Great, see Battle of Otford (1016). 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. Henry Sidney, his park, called the Little Park of She, a lady-in-waiting to his wife Jacqueline dHainault, was his mistress. The battle was fought in 1016 as a result of Danish invasion of England. Lewisham rail crash: St Johns Lewisham Rail Crash Geograph-2042851 by Ben Brooksbank,licensed under CC BY 2.0. the possessions of the see of Canterbury, till archbishop In fact, it never worked right, and was abandoned after a few months. All either confessed to having had the devil appear to them in the form of a cat or, would you believe, a hedgehog. It began in a first-floor tailors workshop adjacent to a ward housing 350 male patients. The flashpoint was the imprisonment of Robert Belling, an escaped serf from Gravesend. 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