Hop Picking

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BELTRING HOP FARM, EAST PECKHAM.

Old Mother Riley, for those that remember

When you go a-‘opping,
‘Opping dahn in Kent,
See ol’ Muvver Riley
Livin’ in a tent –
Wiv a EIO, EIO, EIEIO!

Looking at the Oast Houses in the background I’m sure this is Beltring, Paddock Wood.

Hop-Picking 1944. M Clark prepares lunch for a hop picking family from Bermondsey.

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HOP PICKING IN YALDING, KENT, 1944

[Jimbo]

Went hoppicking at pebbles farm Horsmenden, remember the time hits and putting potatoes rolled in mud and put in the fire ,great times

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Hop pickers in Yalding, Kent, 1952.

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Beltring Hop Farm, Paddock Wood.

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Beltring hop farm Paddock Wood, Kent. People queing up at the on-site milk bar 1938.

Horse-drawn carts arrive at the oast house on a hop farm in Yalding, Kent, to deposit their load of 'pokes,' sacks of freshly-picked hops. The hops will be dried and compressed in the oast house, ready for onward transportation to the brewer.

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Hop picker's children enjoy a ride in a horse and cart while their parents are busy picking hops at Beltring Farm, Kent, c1954.

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Hop picking in Kent was a much-needed holiday in the fresh air and a way to earn some extra cash. Here we have Nobby' Dewsett (the sailor) with the Audley and Dewsett families of Brunel Road, c.1940.

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Beltring, Paddock Wood, c1930.

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Hop Picking in Beltring Paddock Wood. Children having great fun riding a cart horse round the hop fields 16th December 1946.