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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Hopping Time in Wateringbury 1930 to 1956




All the photos in this posting are by kind courtesy of John Barker who believes them all to have been taken in Wateringbury at hop picking time between the 1930's and 1956.
If we could add some names to those in the photographs or exact locations that would be great.








Richard Smith writes and said the man with a wicker basket used to measure the amount of hops picked in his hands, that man was my father Wilfe Smith  and the Woman whose face can bee seen is Hilda Smith no relation she lived in one of the cottages in Home Farm.
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