Memorial plaque near Hartlake Bridge, on the River Medway, at Golden Green, Kent, UK.
The Hartlake disaster was the death of 30 hop-pickers on 20 October 1853. The Hartlake bridge is a bridge over the river Medway in Golden Green of the parish of Hadlow, Kent. 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.
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