The Memorial to the 30 hop-pickers who died in the Hartlake Bridge disaster in 1853. The stone is shaped like an oast kiln.
The Hartlake disaster resulted in the death of 30 hop-pickers on 20 October 1853. In the evening of 20 October a wagon was taking about 40 hop-pickers and their families back to their campsite. A horse tripped as it was crossing the side of the bridge, the wagon collided with the side, and the bridge collapsed into the river. The river was swollen in flood at the time. The Hartlake bridge is a bridge over the river Medway in Golden Green of the parish of Hadlow, Kent. The memorial shaped like an oast kiln, is to be found in the churchyard of St. Mary's Church, Hadlow The inscription reads: “This monument was erected by public subscription in memory of thirty hop-pickers who were drowned at Hartlake Bridge in a flood of the River Medway on the 20th October 1853 and whose bodies are buried in this churchyard” - “In the midst of life we are in death”
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