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© Mr Geoffrey Farrow
IoE Number:
179460
Location:
HOPPERS MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
HADLOW, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Photographer:
Mr Geoffrey Farrow
Date Photographed:
03 April 2002
Date listed:
19 February 1990
Date of last amendment:
20 October 1954
Grade
II
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HADLOW CHURCH STREET
TQ 63 49
7/24 Hoppers Memorial approx 20m
- east south east of the chancel
of Church of St Mary
GV II
Memorial to 30 hop pickers who drowned in 1853. Sandstone ashlar. Short
obelisk on a projecting base. The square section shaft below has a moulded
base on a one-step plinth which has sockets for iron area railings. It is
inscribed in capital letters around the sides of the base. On the southern
side the inscription reads:
This Monument was erected by public subscription
in memory of the Thirty hop pickers who were drowned
at the Hart Lake Bridge in a flood of the River
Medway on the 20th October, 1853, and whose bodies
were buried in this churchard.
In the midst of life we are in death.
The other 3 sides list their names and ages. Their ages ranged from 18-50
years along with 4 infants under 6 years old, and included 16 members of the
Leatherhead family.
Apparently the hop pickers were in a cart. The horse got into difficulties on
the bridge and they were swept into the swollen river. There were 11
survivors.
Source: A memorial board in the church tower.