Category Archives: Port and Transport

Edward Stephens – the Customs Official who became an MP

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Lorraine

Edward Stephens was elected Dover’s Member of Parliament in 1589, the year after the Spanish Armada, along with Sir Thomas Fane. In those days, Dover boasted of two representatives in Parliament and Edward was the junior of the two. Although … Continue reading →

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Volunteer Review of 1869 and the Ferret Disaster

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Lorraine

It is a little known fact that the first Volunteer Corps – the forerunners of the Territorial Army – was founded in Dover! Thomas Hyde Page, who was born 1746 and educated at Woolwich Military Academy on being invalided out … Continue reading →

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Ralph Stott – A maligned experimenter in Vertical takeoff flying machines?

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Lorraine

The word ‘helicopter’ is adapted from the French ‘hélicoptère‘, and is said to have been coined in 1861 by experimental aeronautics engineer Gustav de Ponton d’Amecourt (1825-1888). The machines are defined as being able to take off and land vertically … Continue reading →

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Dover Sea Cadets – A proud contribution to Dover’s maritime history

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Lorraine

The training of young men in the art of seamanship was recognised in Denmark 1801 by the establishment of the Academy of Sea-Cadets and the idea soon spread throughout Europe’s maritime nations. Eventually national naval colleges were founded such as … Continue reading →

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Anthony Aucher – Entrepreneur and Creative Accountant

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Lorraine

Up until the seventeenth century the Mediterranean was the centre of commercial power. Because of this, the great sea was jealously guarded and was feared by English sailors. At the eastern end was the rich Levant and to import goods from … Continue reading →

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