On Kentish Chalk: A Farming Family of the North DownsDavid Gore, 2006 - 108 pages John Gore, son of Thomas Gore (1716-1780) and Ann Court, was born in 1748. He married Martha Rogers in 1775 in Badlesmere, Kent, England. They had twelve children. He died in 1825. |
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... fields are no longer so numerous and many of the distinctive cowl - topped oast houses , where the hops were dried , have been converted into modern living space . Kent boasts several striking physical features . ( 1 ) The rich ...
... fields are no longer so numerous and many of the distinctive cowl - topped oast houses , where the hops were dried , have been converted into modern living space . Kent boasts several striking physical features . ( 1 ) The rich ...
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... fields of blue and gold listening to nothing but the song of birds " . That lofty description was written seventy years ago . Although the Downs rise to only a few hundred feet above the surrounding countryside , to be up there now can ...
... fields of blue and gold listening to nothing but the song of birds " . That lofty description was written seventy years ago . Although the Downs rise to only a few hundred feet above the surrounding countryside , to be up there now can ...
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... fields . Turning my back on the view , I headed north and found myself on a narrow winding lane , little wider than a track , following heavily wooded dry steep - sided valleys . There was pastureland and , on the few level areas , some ...
... fields . Turning my back on the view , I headed north and found myself on a narrow winding lane , little wider than a track , following heavily wooded dry steep - sided valleys . There was pastureland and , on the few level areas , some ...
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... field , but never a car . I felt like Dr Who stepping out of the Tardis into some earlier time . Edward Hasted wrote a ... fields . Hasted wrote that their effect was to " bring forward the crops either by their warmth , or somewhat ...
... field , but never a car . I felt like Dr Who stepping out of the Tardis into some earlier time . Edward Hasted wrote a ... fields . Hasted wrote that their effect was to " bring forward the crops either by their warmth , or somewhat ...
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... fields with lime to break up the thick clogging texture of the clay . Chalk was dug out of the Downs and converted to lime by burning in kilns . The lime was then spread on the land in late autumn , to be broken down by frost , and ...
... fields with lime to break up the thick clogging texture of the clay . Chalk was dug out of the Downs and converted to lime by burning in kilns . The lime was then spread on the land in late autumn , to be broken down by frost , and ...
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Page 77 - From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.
Page 59 - Good morning; good morning!" the General said When we met him last week on our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. "He's a cheery old card," grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up- to Arras with rifle and pack.
Page 67 - I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!" And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.
Page 54 - Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young.
Page 59 - He's a cheery old card,' grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
Page 24 - The Farmer will never be happy again ; He carries his heart in his boots ; For either the rain is destroying his grain Or the drought is destroying his roots.
Page 33 - ... some few of which they kill, they destroy numbers of hares, pheasants, partridges, and in short whatever comes in their way, breaking down the hedges, and doing much other mischief, and in the evening betaking themselves to the alehouses, finish their career there, as is usual with such sort of gentry.
Page 46 - The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.
Page 25 - ... carry more stock and maintain it without falling off during the winter months. For the light sands of Norfolk turnips possessed a special value. Roots, fed on the ground by sheep, fertilised and consolidated the poorest soil. Another portion of the crop, drawn off and stored for winter keep, helped the farmer to keep more stock, to obtain more manure, to enrich the land, to increase its yield, to verify the truth of the proverb " A full bullock-yard and a full fold make a full granary.
Page 64 - Pathans] until the burst of fire, and then the swift rush with knives, the stripping of the dead, and the unhurried mutilation of the infidels.1...