The Mudcat Café TM HARTLAKE BRIDGE The Hartlake Bridge tragedy occurred on 20 October 1853, when a cart carrying hop pickers veered off Hartlake Bridge into the River Medway and over 30 people were drowned. There are local memorials in that area of Kent. /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171103 Jasper Smith version (collected by Mike Yates) is here :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa7V9VIM_ko and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUVqN4bGZYk Bill "Mousey" Smith version (collected by Ken Stubbs) is available online at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. https://www.vwml.org/search?q=Bill%20Mousey%20Smith%20HARTLAKE%20BRIDGE,%20&collectionfilter=RoudFS;RoudBS;VWMLSongIndex;MasterI Hartlake Disaster from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartlake_disaster