The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #141479   Message #3256262
Posted By: GUEST,John from "Elsie`s Band"
13-Nov-11 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Death by drowning in traditional songs
Subject: RE: Death by drowning in traditional songs
"Hartlake Bridge" tells of the hop-pickers who were drowned when swept off the bridge in their carriages due to the Medway in flood. They are remembered on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hadlow, near Tonbridge.