Shocking death of a boy- On Wednesday the East Kent Coroner (Mr. R. M. Mercer) held an inquest at Lydden on the body of Edward Boughton, aged 14. It seems the boy was riding a horse which bolted. He got caught in the harness, was kicked by the horse, and was subsequently dragged...
Last weekend I witnessed history in action or, at least, east Kent's version of it. Two hundred adults and dozens of excited small children were drawn to windswept cliffs outside Herne Bay by a promise in the local paper of a rerun of the battle of Reculver, fought between the Romans ...
Amy Johnson's Airspeed Oxford aeroplane mysteriously plunged into the icy-cold Thames estuary near Herne Bay in Kent in January 1941. The circumstances of her death, at the age of 37, caused a storm of controversy that still refuses to die down. According to the official record, neither the...
I venture into the living room….[I]t’s the best room in the aparthouse…[I]t is two stories high and takes up one whole half of the aparthouse. Standing in it is like being in a Lucite box that’s suspended in the sky. Instead of a solid wall, there is a huge pane of gla...
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Berry, Kent D Seltman (2008). (McKesson), The Company (1958). The Road to Market: 125 Years of Distribution Service. (New York, NY: The Company, 62 p.). McKesson and Robbins, Inc.; Pharmaceutical industry -- United States. "Published to commemorate the one hundred twenty-fifth ...
Canterbury is a historic town and surrounding city (local authority) in the administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. Its cathedral has been the primary ecclesiastical center of England since the early 7th century CE.