It was wonderful! It was heroic! It was God-like!" "If I ever hear of you doing such a thing again, you shall go back to London the next day." "That sounds exactly as though my dead father were speaking." "I'll not be made a laughing-stock by you." "You make yourself one as your father did before you.

A Kingsnorth! What has your name meant?
Because one of our forefathers cheated the world into giving him a fortune, by buying his goods for more than they were worth, we have tried to canonise him and put a halo around the name of Kingsnorth.

To me it stands for all that is mean and selfish and vain and ignorant.

The power of money over intellect.

How did we become owners of this miserable piece of land?
A Kingsnorth swindled its rightful owner.