Quarry accident (1847)

Post date: Aug 15, 2012 12:1:49 PM

Extract from West Kent Guardian, 31st July 1847

—Accident.—On Wednesday last, as William Quinnell was working in a stone quarry, on the Nettlested Court estate, some of the earth fell in upon him. He was removed to the Kentish Hoy, and Mr. Gould, surgeon, of Wateringbury, was soon in attendance, who administered the proper remedies, and the young man was afterwards removed to the union house, at Coxheath.

The Kentish Hoy was a pub on Bow Road. It is now cottages and for some time known as Hoy Cottages. This part of Bow Road was formerly in Nettlestead parish but is now in Wateringbury.

Mr. Gould the Wateringbury surgeon appears frequently in the press at this time.