A note from Adam Wolfe on a previous post adding more detail. Thanks Adam.
Dear Sir, Regarding previous correspondence and photographs please find below a news report from the Daily Express (28 May 1964) regarding the Courage brewery tanker that rolled down into Warden Mill Close and nearly crashed into one of the houses; an event that I remember well as we lived in the Close.
Kind regards,
Adam Wolfe
House wall Saves baby Express Staff Reporter TWO-YEAR-OLD Melanie Deacon was sitting on the stairs at home when a beer tanker crashed into the wall beside her yesterday. The wall held and Melanie escaped with a blow on the head which knocked her unconscious. The lorry, carrying 25,000 gallons of beer, was driverless when it ran across a main road into the Deacons's new home in Warden Hill Close, Wateringbury, near Maidstone, Kent. CRASH ! Melanie’s mother, Mrs. Jean Deacon, said : “1 was about to take her upstairs for her morning nap. “She was sitting on the stairs waiting for a drink when suddenly there was a tremendous crash. I rushed out of the kitchen and found her lying on the floor. If the lorry had come through the wall it would have killed her.” T'he driver, Henry Ward, of Brentford, Middlesex, said the lorry slipped forward when he got out to check the brake. Last night it was still embedded in the side of the house .
Adam Wolfe
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