Tonbridge Daily Snippet

In 1901 an unfortunate death of a workman occurred after he fell into a well of boiling water at The Quarry Hill Brickworks. To make matters even more 'unfortunate', when the emergency call went out from the brickworks to Dr. Cardell, in his East Street surgery, the telephone line was down due to a broken telephone wire.  Contact was made with the Exchange, also in East Street, and from there a hand written note was taken to the doctor.  Sadly,  it was far too late for Dr. Cardell to help the man who died soon after the accident.