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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... town 37 Chapter 7 : Joseph & Eliza and their children 1858-1914 46 Chapter 8 : The Great War 1914-18 54 Chapter 9 : Between the Wars 1919-39 – Pandemic , Penury & Pathans - 60 Chapter 10 : The Second World War 1939-45 68 Chapter 11 ...
... town 37 Chapter 7 : Joseph & Eliza and their children 1858-1914 46 Chapter 8 : The Great War 1914-18 54 Chapter 9 : Between the Wars 1919-39 – Pandemic , Penury & Pathans - 60 Chapter 10 : The Second World War 1939-45 68 Chapter 11 ...
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... chalk of the Downs , the Medway and the Great Stour , are shown . Also marked are the main towns ( black ) and roads ( dark red ) . The white cliffs of the North Downs near Dover Invicta Chapter 1 KENT " Kent , sir - everybody knows. 6.
... chalk of the Downs , the Medway and the Great Stour , are shown . Also marked are the main towns ( black ) and roads ( dark red ) . The white cliffs of the North Downs near Dover Invicta Chapter 1 KENT " Kent , sir - everybody knows. 6.
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... towns , roads and railways down in the valley . The Channel Tunnel , and the extra traffic , houses and other ... town of Faversham , and opposite it the village of Ospringe where our family once lived , are on Watling Street ...
... towns , roads and railways down in the valley . The Channel Tunnel , and the extra traffic , houses and other ... town of Faversham , and opposite it the village of Ospringe where our family once lived , are on Watling Street ...
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... town near where our family were farming at the time of the Civil War . Beyond was a magnificent landscape across the Chart Hills to the great Weald of Kent , once thick forest and now a patchwork of fertile fields . Turning my back on ...
... town near where our family were farming at the time of the Civil War . Beyond was a magnificent landscape across the Chart Hills to the great Weald of Kent , once thick forest and now a patchwork of fertile fields . Turning my back on ...
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... towns than agricultural communities . Apart from these occasional isolated farms , there is a remoteness about these secluded valleys and the network of tiny twisting lanes through the woods . Not many strangers seem to find their way ...
... towns than agricultural communities . Apart from these occasional isolated farms , there is a remoteness about these secluded valleys and the network of tiny twisting lanes through the woods . Not many strangers seem to find their way ...
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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...