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| Picture No | 12094977 |
| Date | 1901 |
| Description | Hop-picking season in Kent 1901 |
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Summer months were very popular for going to Kent for the annual hop-picking season. People would come from miles around to spend the summer months sleeping in primitive camps for two or three weeks for agreeable and profitable employment. Illustration showing men, women and majority children travelling after midnight, over a period of ten to twelve nights so as not to interfere with ordinary traffic.
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| Source | Drawn by Victor Prout in 'The Sphere', 7 September 1901, page 287 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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