1954 - Hop Picking in the Kentish Hop Fields


A farmer releases stray vine while my cousins, David and Roger, watch

Aunty Kath and Roger picking hops

Aunty Kath, Michael, unknown, Lorraine

Colllecting the hops

Cousin David and, presumably, his wife picking hops

Derek and Cousin Roger in a hop field, ~1955

Farmer and tractor

Getting ready for a break in the hop fields

Kent hop farmers

Malcolm, Derek, a farmer and a tractor in the Kent hop fields

Michael, Derek, unknown, Aunty Kath

Mum's Mum and Dad, Ida and George Bird, and Uncle Roy, picking hopes

Mum's Mum, Ida Bird, and two others pick hops

My father and mother with me and my brother picking hops

My father and mother, Sidney and Eileen, Mum's father and mother, me and Malcolm

My mother and me picking hops

 

 

My Mum and Dad, Eileen and Sidney, pull down a vine

Unknown, farmer, unknown, Derek, Malcoml, farmer, Roger, Lorraine

 

 

 

 

 

 

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