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unusual facts about Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858



Andrew Naismith Watson

Watson lost the Chatham—Kent seat to Liberal Maurice Bossy by 1,134 votes.

Den döda vinkeln

"Den döda vinkeln" (translation: The blind spot, literally: The dead angle) is a 2005 single by the band Kent, from the album Du & jag döden.

Harry Sutcliffe

The late 1990s saw Harry move into the business side of the music industry, initially as an A&R manager for Arista Records working closely with Blondie, Natalie Imbruglia, Kent, Beth Orton, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Brown and Death in Vegas.

John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper

He was knighted, and was elected member for Kent in the Long Parliament, when he took the popular side, speaking against monopolies on 9 November 1640, being entrusted with the impeachment of Sir Robert Berkeley on 12 February 1641, supporting Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford's attainder, and being appointed to the committee of defence on 12 August 1641.

Lisebergshallen

The venue has hosted concerts for rock bands like Metallica, Slayer, Alice Cooper, Europe (band), Joe Bonamassa, Manowar, Jethro Tull, In Flames, Hammerfall, Kent, Motörhead, Nightwish, Helloween, Hardcore Superstar and Bullet for My Valentine.

Meal, Combat, Individual ration

Typical commercial brands issued in the cigarette ration were: Camel, Chesterfield, Kent, Kool, Lucky Strike, Marlboro, Pall Mall, Salem, or Winston.

Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858

The painting can be seen as an allegory of time and space, geology and astronomy, family and history, with science meeting Christianity on the beach: Pegwell Bay was reputedly the place where St Augustine landed in 597, on his mission to bring Christianity to the British Isles (and also where Hengist and Horsa arrived in the 5th century).

The beach was frequented by Charles Darwin and his family, and On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, while Dyce was working on the painting.

Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet on the coast of Kent between Ramsgate and Sandwich, at the estuary of the River Stour, Kent.

Plucks Gutter

During the Middle Ages, the two rivers met the Wantsum Channel at Stourmouth, but the combined rivers now (called the River Stour downstream from Plucks Gutter) flow onward to the sea via Sandwich to Pegwell Bay near Ramsgate, leaving Plucks Gutter some six miles in a straight line and ten by river from the English Channel.

William Dyce

His most highly thought of painting today is his exceptionally detailed seaside landscape of Pegwell Bay in Kent, now in the Tate Gallery.


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