‘Hero’ father and son rescue pensioners from rubble after Kent explosion Sean Morrison UP NEXT
A father and son have been hailed as heroes for saving three people from a burning row of houses following a huge explosion in Kent.
Andy and Harry Hodges reportedly saved a 99-year-old woman, her 75-year-old son and their neighbour from their homes following the blast.
The construction workers were driving past the house in Willesborough in Ashford when they witnessed the aftermath of the explosion on Tuesday.
Two people were airlifted to hospital and a further five hurt. Dramatic photos show the smoking ruin of a house among rubble strewn across the residential street.
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Remarkably the 1851 Census for the village records nine, although there were reputed to have been 15. This Dorset village has just one pub remaining today. There are about a dozen buildings in the village of 17th century origin, including the barn behind the church, and of the eighteenth century, the Mill and a few cottages. Cottages of the nineteenth century are commoner. This pub was present by 1861 when the publican was Harry Hodges. It closed in the 1990s and is now in residential use. As you can see from the writing on the building, this pub is the Castle Inn - but you may be surprised to hear it has nothing to do with a castles in spite of its name and its appearance.