Steve Ladner

2 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Steve Ladner |Craig Buchan

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Ten people died and 40 were injured in the accident in Staplehurst in 1865The son of Victorian writer Charles Dickens reportedly said his father was changed forever after he was involved in a train crash in Kent. According to Shane Waterman, of Rochester History Guided Tours, Charles Dickens Jr once said his father was "never the same man" after a train he was traveling in derailed near Staplehurst.

4 weeks ago | bbc.com | Steve Ladner |Jacob Panons

The explosion that killed 108 and rocked FavershamSteve Ladner & Jacob PanonsGetty ImagesMany of those who died were buried at Love Lane CemeteryDuring World War One, Faversham in Kent was rocked by an enormous explosion which killed at least 108 men and boys and left a permanent mark on the town. On Sunday 2 April, workers at a gunpowder site were loading shells when the explosion happened.

Mar 19, 2025 | bbc.com | Steve Ladner

The murder mystery at a Kent stately homeSteve LadnerJoshua Askew & Hsin-Yi LoGetty ImagesCamden Place's history goes back to 1717A gruesome double murder at a stately home continues to intrigue today. In 1813 wealthy merchant Thomson Bonar was found brutally bludgeoned to death with a poker, along with his mortally wounded wife Anne, in their bedroom at Camden Place in Chislehurst, which at the time was in Kent.