Dartford

Obviously, I, I make no bones about the fact that I'm comfortably off, but asking whether you've turned the heating on is not really an opportunity to start indulging in ludicrous class war.

Uh, Harry's in Dartford.

Harry, question or answer?

Question, please.

Can you believe it? He fell off his bicycle and got killed.

I don't know, what a way to go, eh? Dick Taylor, of course, as you probably know, the original Pretty Things were kind of from the Dartford area, where the Stones were from, and they were friends with the Stones, and I think Dick Taylor started off in, actually as a member of the Stones, but then he kind of decided to continue his art project at Art College and didn't go with them, and then later on formed the Pretty Things with Phil May, and that, you know, So they were from the very same area as the Stones, as were Byrne Elliot and the Fen Men.

And some of the Fen Men ended up in the pretty things.

So it's all kind of mates round from the Dartford area, which is a little, well, it's not a little, it's a kind of... what would have been a Kent market town just southeast of London, but is now basically incorporated in Greater London.

It's still got a postcode of Kent, but it's actually, you know, if you go from Dartford to London, you don't go through any countryside.

It's all built up.

um yeah so there you go that's uh that's what that before that we had as as i was telling you ruffle doing uh or not ruffle that's the name of the album it's the studio group doing um blah blah whatever it was called go mean yeah uh now i'm going to play you a track by roxy music and uh i really love their second album uh for your pleasure which uh which came out in uh 1973 and I went straight out and bought it because I heard a couple of tracks off it and thought that is fantastic and I still think the first side of Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure is an absolute work of I wouldn't say genius I think that's an overused work in pop music I was actually discussing that with my wife the other night like is there any geniuses in pop music or are there any geniuses and we came to the conclusion there's a lot of really good people in there you know But not really many.

No, and there definitely were women's county championships were, that were chronically affected.

Raff, when you spoke about a lot of them being teachers, was that a lot of them at Dartford College, or does-

Mm

... does that come into the picture a bit later? 'Cause there were quite a few who were PE teachers at Dartford, and that's quite a significant, um, institution, wasn't it, for the women's game?

Yeah, definitely.

Um, so again, it's these kind of, um, all, they're all sort of all-female, um, training colleges, um, that are specifically training women to be PE teachers, um, that were set up.

So Dartford's the original, um, set up in the late 19th century, and then others are established in the early 20th century.

But Dartford is a big one because it kind of becomes known for producing England women cricketers.

I would love to know what Mariah first thought of England and have the kids been.

Do you have their parents visit you a lot in America? And a shout out to Amanda in Dartford, Kent.

So first off, I used to work in Dartford at UPS.

Cheers, Amanda.

Cheers, Amanda, brother.

Six days into the revolt, Abel Kerr headed back to Kent with 100 men from Essex.

He landed in Dartford.

Two days later, Abel, boosted with reinforcements, launched the first rebel strike on a major military target.

They moved from Dartford onto Rochester.

A week after the start of the revolt, the peasants had the confidence to attack one of the best defended fortresses in the land.

Rochester Castle had a fearsome reputation.

The local people were absolutely furious.

It became a cause célèbre.