Download or read book The History of the Town of Gravesend in the County of Kent and of the Port of London written by Robert Peirce Cruden and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Town of Gravesend In the County of Kent and of the Port of London written by Robert Peirce Cruden and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Download or read book History of the Town of Gravesend written by Robert Peirce Cruden and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Town of Gravesend written by Robert Peirce Cruden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Town of Gravesend: In the County of Kent and of the Port of London Almost half a century has passed away, since the latest History of Gravesend was published; and the town has now attained an eminence, in respect of extent and population, which claims a more elaborate and circumstantial account of its origin and pro gress, than any that has hitherto been given. A genealogist is fain to establish for his client, the honour of an ancient descent, by showing that the founder of his family came over with the Conqueror; and topographical writers being no less apt to claim for the subject of their researches, an origin as ancient - Dooms day Book is usually appealed to, for both purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Gravesend and Northfleet Revisited written by Robert H. Hiscock and published by Britain in Old Photographs (Hi. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last 100 years or so Gravesend has grown from a small community with a population of 22,000 in 1881, to the present Borough of Gravesham with a population of more than 90,000. Robert H. Hiscock's book illustrates this development, as a small but busy waterside town, depending on the Thames for much of its wealth, grew into a vast commercial and residential area, with many of its inhabitants commuting to London and elsewhere, providing a shopping center for the now much enlarged Gravesham. The photographs are taken from the area covered by the old Borough of Gravesend from its incorporation in 1672 to 1935. They are divided into four main sections: the Riverside; the Main Road from the Lion Garage; the Old Road; and Watling street. This book provides us with a fascinating collection of old photographs from this interesting and much changed region of Kent.
Download or read book The Harris Family of Essex and Gravesend Kent England written by Enid Dorothy Bullock and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Harris was baptized in 1747 in Southwark, Surrey, England. His parents were Thomas Harris and Ann Balis. He married Frances Luckhurst in 1770 in Gravesend, Kent. They had two sons, George and William. Traces ancestors, descendants and relatives in England, Europe, Queensland, Victoria and elsewhere.
Download or read book The History of the Incorporated Town and Parishes of Gravesend and Milton in the County of Kent Selected with Accuracy from Topographical Writers and Enriched from Manuscripts Hitherto Un noticed Recording Every Event from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time written by Robert Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Gravesend written by James Benson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gravesend written by Cole Swensen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravesend, which takes its name from the English town at the mouth of the Thames, revisits the genre of the ghost story and, through fragmentation, juxtaposition, and allusion, powerfully summons the uncanny, the spectral presence. Cole Swensen delves into ancient fables, the Bible, medieval records, Victorian ghost stories, contemporary interviews, and more to explore the effects of the ghostly on our daily lives, at times returning to the notion of "gravesend," implicitly asking if all ends in the grave or if death itself has an end. Swensen's focus on language shapes these visitations--glimp.
Download or read book Gravesend written by Cole Swensen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65) The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to absorb a given society’s actions, as well as, at times, to fill the gaps between such actions and the desires and intentions of its individual citizens. Tracing the changing nature of the ghostly in the western world from antiquity to today, the collection focuses particularly on the ghosts created by the European expansion of the 16th through 20th centuries, using the town of Gravesend, the seaport at the mouth of the Thames through which countless emigrants passed, as an emblem of theambiguous threshold between one life and another, in all the many meanings of that phrase.
Download or read book Gravesend Kent written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Bat and Ball Ground, Cyclopark, Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury, Gravesend, Rosherville and Northfleet Tramways, Gravesend (UK Parliament constituency), Gravesend Airport, Gravesend and Northfleet Electric Tramways, Gravesend by-election, 1947, Gravesend Grammar School, Gravesend railway station, Gravesend Sailing Club, Gravesend town pier, Gravesend United F.C., Gravesend West railway station, Gravesend-Tilbury Ferry, Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara, Mayfield Grammar School, Milton-next-Gravesend, New Tavern Fort, Pocahontas, RAF Gravesend, Rosherville Gardens, Rosherville Halt railway station, St George's Church, Gravesend, Tallis Directory, Windmill Hill, Kent. Excerpt: Pocahontas (born Matoaka, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe, c. 1595 - March 1617) was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him. Pocahontas was captured by the English during Anglo-Indian hostilities in 1613, and held for ransom. During her captivity, she converted to Christianity and took the name Rebecca. When the opportunity arose for her to return to her people, she chose to remain with the English. In April 1614, she married tobacco planter John Rolfe, and in January 1615, bore him a son, Thomas Rolfe. Pocahontas's marriage to John Rolfe in 1614 was the first recorded interracial marriage in American history. In 1616, the Rolfes traveled to London. Pocahontas was presented to English society as an example of the civilized "savage" in hopes of...
Download or read book Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent Sussex and Surrey written by Arthur Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charter of the Incorporated Town and Parishes of Gravesend and Milton in the County of Kent written by Gravesend (Kent, England) and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Survive in Medieval England written by Toni Mount and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth guide to life in medieval England, including class, housing, spirituality, fashion, grooming, food, commerce, jobs, health, law, war, and more. Imagine you were transported back in time to Medieval England and had to start a new life there. Without mobile phones, ipads, internet, and social media networks, when transport means walking or, if you’re fortunate, horseback, how will you know where you are or what to do? Where will you live? What is there to eat? What shall you wear? How can you communicate when nobody speaks as you do and what about money? Who can you go to if you fall ill or are mugged in the street? However can you fit into and thrive in this strange environment full of odd people who seem so different from you? All these questions and many more are answered in this new guidebook for time-travelers: How to Survive in Medieval England. A handy self-help guide with tips and suggestions to make your visit to the Middle Ages much more fun, this lively and engaging book will help the reader deal with the new experiences they may encounter and the problems that might occur. Know the laws so you don’t get into trouble or show your ignorance in an embarrassing faux pas. Enjoy interviews with the celebrities of the day, from a businesswoman and a condemned felon, to a royal cook and King Richard III himself. Have a go at preparing medieval dishes and learn some new words to set the mood for your time-travelling adventure. Have an exciting visit but be sure to keep this book at hand. “Fun and creative. . . . If you want a handy guide to take on your journeys to the past or you just want a book to better understand the past, I highly suggest you read this book, “How to Survive in Medieval England” by Toni Mount.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd
Download or read book Kent Slow Travel written by Simon Richmond and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folkestone resident and globe-trotting travel writer Simon Richmond turns the spotlight on his home county in this brand new title, part of Bradt's award-winning series of Slow travel guides to UK regions. Walkers, cyclists, families, food and art lovers, and wildlife enthusiasts are all catered for, with coverage of a wide range of attractions, as well as all the practical information you could need to plan and enjoy time spent in this delightful corner of England. The diversity of Kent is striking, from Canterbury Cathedral, part of a Unesco-listed World Heritage Site, to Dungeness, Kent's southernmost point, Britain's only officially recognised desert and home to artist and film-maker Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage. The village of Pluckley was once named England's most haunted by the Guinness World Records, while St Leonard's Church in Hythe has the largest and best-preserved collection of ancient human skulls and bones in Britain.This in-depth guide covers all the most popular places as well as many of the lesser-known ones, dividing the county into five easy-to-follow chapters. Explore Dover and spend time at its iconic White Cliffs, saunter through Vita Sackville-West's gorgeous gardens at the National Trust's Sissinghurst estate, visit the grave of Pocahontas in Gravesend, and contemplate the delightful and thought-provoking public art of the revitalised seaside town of Folkestone. History has been made in Kent, at Hever Castle, where Anne Boleyn spent her childhood and which was later restored by William Waldorf Astor, and at Chartwell, the family home and garden of Sir Winston Churchill. Kent's food and drink offering is increasingly celebrated, with a growing reputation for high quality restaurants and boutique wineries, not to mention the world's oldest brewer and largest collection of fruit trees at Faversham.From flora and fauna to castles, watersports, beaches and wildlife, discover Kent with Bradt's unique Slow guide.
Download or read book The Hoo Peninsula Landscape written by Sarah Newsome and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hoo Peninsula is located on the north Kent coast 30 miles east of Central London. This book raises awareness of the positive contribution that the historic environment makes to the Hoo Peninsula by describing how changing patterns of land use and maritime activity over time have given this landscape and seascape its distinctive character. It uses new information, which involved historic landscape, seascape and farmstead characterisation, aerial photographic mapping and analysis, area assessment of the buildings, detailed survey of key sites and other desk-based research. It takes a thematic view of the major influences on the history and development of the Hoo Peninsula and demonstrates the role that the Peninsula plays in the national story. The book is an important step towards changing the perception that the Hoo Peninsula is an out-of-the-way area, scarred by past development, where the landscape has no heritage value and major infrastructure can be developed with minimum objection.
Download or read book The Saxon Shore Way written by Alan Sillitoe and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
