The great storm....

"....So terrific was the wind that houses and barns were blown down., trees uprooted, and no glass facing South but was broken. Crops of hops and wheat in that year were utterly destroyed, while immense hailstones, many inches in circumference, caused the sad loss of life to both man and beast..." The great storm of 1987? Global warming causing calamitous climate change like an apocolyptic American movie? No, for I refer of course to that great destructive storm which swept across Tonbridge and the Weald of Kent in the year 1763!...