SalvoNEWS (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Demolition is set to begin at a 200-year-old industrial site as plans to turn it into a housing development press ahead. SEEDA (South East England Development Agency), a government-funded organisation responsible for regeneration, will start the 30-week demolition of Northfleet Embankment. The majority of the disused industrial buildings on the derelict 40 acre site will be demolished, although some...
Pencil & Spoon (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Question: What do you get if you take the Kent pub of the year , the Kent club of the year and add a shuttle bus and 60 casks of beer? That was the deal for the 2 Kents Real Ale Festival over the weekend ( I posted the beer list here ). I started at The Bull. Lauren and I went up there and met Brad , Pete , Pete’s girlfriend Heather and Shaun . Unlike Pete and Shaun, who went straight for the...
The Beer Justice (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
On Saturday there was a joint beer festival between the Bull at Horton Kirby, Kent's CAMRA pub of the year and the Dartford Working Mens' Club, the Club of the year for Kent. Both bars had twenty or so beers available and transport was laid on between the two - a ride of twenty minutes or so - an excellent idea that should be applauded and supported. I enjoyed three pints of Gales Seafarers at the...
Pencil & Spoon (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There are three different beer festivals coming up in the next three weeks. On the 26-27 November is the White Horse’s Old Ale festival, from the 1-5 December it’s the Pigs Ear in Hackney (I'll be going on the Friday - anyone around after BGBW dinner?) and this weekend, the 20-21 November, it’s the 2 Kent’s Dual Real Ale Festival held between The Bull, Horton Kirby and Dartford...
. (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Human Events Never done any of these but these events look good 06 March triandrun Spring Ballbuster 11 April Kingston Breakfast Run Date To Be Confirmed Middle Distance Half Iron Aquathlon Date To Be Confirmed The blueseventy GreatBig OpenWater Swim (July) x 2 events though the year http://www.velocity-events.co.uk/ Event Calendar 2010 March 7th Maidstone Duathlon -Harrietsham 9.5k run-42k bike-3.5k...
come back to what you know (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Like most British people, hell like most Europeans, I've got many relatives who served in the First World War. The sad thing is that I didn't know about any of them until this year when I spent some time trying to flesh out my family tree. So here is my small memorial to my three (known) relatives who didn't come home from the Western Front. Whilst Leonard and William were previously known by those...
carrolltrust | 30/10/2009
FBI "live feeds" Washington DC field office Gerald Carroll Trust named International Offshore Crime Syndicate Goodman Derrick LLP Ian Montrose trust partner resident London UK Haslers Accountants Loughton Essex UK Jon O'Shea tax partner resident Essex UK M J Chappell resident Safron Walden Essex UK Nassau Bahamas A R Clark resident Gibraltar Spain Richard Bray & Co. resident London UK
Beyond the brook... (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Could there possibly be a more picturesque appointment in the UK other than Minster? Minster is a small village about five miles from the coast in Kent. It gets its name from the Abbey (which still functions today) in the centre of the village. If you ask Sister Benedict nicely she will give you a guided tour. The village has everything you might need – dentist, doctor, library, corner shop,...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
A three-day power cut in Dartford in July coincided with an increase in crime, according to figures from Kent Police.
St Margaret's at Cliffe Photo Diary (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Dartford Warblers aren't conventional migrants, many of the British population remain in their breeding areas during the winter. So though do disperse, this may happen in areas where there are high populations, and when this happens they frequently turn up in other areas, the Kent coast being an area often visited. There was one in a small group of bushes and trees along the cliff top at Bockhill today....
Good King Hal (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Good King Hal playing "Spot the Next Queen" Competition. He won a years supply of prunes, two episodes of the Jeremy Kyle Show and a 1991 Vauxhall Senator with 156,782 miles on the clock. He complained to the judges and was sent to bed with slapped legs and no supper. A lovely weekend with Amanda and James in Essex. My son is rapidly getting up to Olympic Standard on Mario Cart on the Wii...
St Margaret's at Cliffe Photo Diary (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
This rather distant view of the Wryneck at Bockhill today reminds me of my first encounter with a Wryneck in Kent. When Pam and I moved into Crayford in 1971 we lived a couple of hundred yards into Greater London ( Bexley ) but with Dartford Heath at the top of the road. In those day it was safe to walk across the heath with out being accused of being there for various antisocial activities. I used...
Tracey Crouch (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The BBC is reporting that tomorrow Gordon Brown will announce the sale of UK assets in order to raise £16bn to plug the Treasury black hole. This sale will crucially include the Dartford Crossing; if a private company or investor is going to be interested in buying the assets it will obviously want to make a profit. So if the Dartford Crossing is sold, Kent's commuters crossing the Bridge will...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
The southbound toll at the Dartford Crossing between Kent and Essex may be scrapped to help cut congestion.
North Downs and beyond (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
I live in Surrey. I 'do' most of my natural history in Surrey. When I tell other students of bugs, grass and birds (but particularly birds) where I live, you can read several things on their faces. Firstly, "Mmm, Surrey, that's posh and well off". Secondly, "Surrey? He sounds a bit common to come from there". And finally, "Surrey...poor bugger". The last comment is normally...
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carrolltrust | 30/10/2009
FBI "live feeds" Washington DC field office Gerald Carroll Trust named International Offshore Crime Syndicate Goodman Derrick LLP Ian Montrose trust partner resident London UK Haslers Accountants Loughton Essex UK Jon O'Shea tax partner resident Essex UK M J Chappell resident Safron Walden Essex UK Nassau Bahamas A R Clark resident Gibraltar Spain Richard Bray & Co. resident London UK Wendy Luscombe
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