From the Weekly Amusement, February 22 1734:
'On Friday... at Night, five Men mask'd came to the House of Farmer Savage of Brockley in Kent, entered the same, and rifled the House of all the Money and Plate, and took each of them a Shirt, which they said they were in great Want of; they staid some Time in the House, eating and drinking, and then went off with as much Unconcern as common Visitors'.
An extraordinary entrance
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Before reading on, take a moment to think where this fine building entrance
might be found, and its likely age.
[image: Photo: a flight of stone steps l...
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Brockley in Kent? Corblimey - what would the Conservation Zone say
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