Popular Post WILF 48,008 Posted September 20, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 All my family used to go and do this every year from way back.....I used to love the smell of the hop fields when I was a kid although the tradition had stopped with my brothers generation. We lived on a little small holding just outside Sandwhich in Kent and right in amongst the fields.....Sandwhich still had its old cattle market then.....it’s a car park and supermarket now Sadly now all lost.......I miss MY England Anyway, I hope some of you enjoy 21 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackmag 6,128 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 Nice clip wilf another tradition lost through the years a lot of cattle markets have gone from everywhere now 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
walshie 2,804 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 A particularly cheerful bunch. I agree though. I miss my country as it was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 26,980 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 lovely clip that as you say its a shame stuff like this is lost....I suppose modern machines do it quicker... theres a load of wild hops on one of the hedgerows just a few hundred yards from my cottage ....ive never picked them or owt but its nice to see them every year and I'm always hoping the farmer don't cut the hedge before they flower... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 48,008 Posted September 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 29 minutes ago, TOMO said: lovely clip that as you say its a shame stuff like this is lost....I suppose modern machines do it quicker... theres a load of wild hops on one of the hedgerows just a few hundred yards from my cottage ....ive never picked them or owt but its nice to see them every year and I'm always hoping the farmer don't cut the hedge before they flower... Pick a bunch and hang them in your kitchen mate, they smell amazing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sussex 5,778 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 As kids we used to go down to goudhurst in Kent , to us as kids it was one big adventure ...Sadly by the time we were ten it was all but finished , although as you drive into Goudhurst there are still a few of the old huts to be seen .Strange that fifty years later I ended up helping out on a big shoot that took in most of the land that was once hop gardens , you could still see where the little Hawkhurst branch line train ran through to the villages ..reckoned to be the prettiest line in the country .. Always bought a couple of hop bines of a little farm in Goudhurst to hang in the barn ..Days long gone that will never be repeated . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLATTOP 4,567 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 I remember as a kid sitting around my Nan and Grandads fire in there house in the East End with the telescopic fork making toast and smothering it with Beef dripping and the conversation always turned to hopping and the many stories attached to it the joy in my nans face of the good times they had will never be forgotten. It also used to turn to war stories as well my Grandad used to help retrieve the dead from the bombed out houses as the East End took a big hit during world war 2. Its funny thinking about it a lot happened around that fireplace we made pickled onions red cabbage horse radish you name it and all was got rid of down the George Pub on the Isle of Dogs. It funny how a little video can revoke such nice childhood memories, nice one Wilf 4 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 29,426 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 We were more tomatoes and potatoes from jersey in my area, think hops is a bit of a Kentish thing if memory serves Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel cain 46,514 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 Hereford was popular around here up until mid 90's for hop picking, something my mother and her siblings did growing up 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 16,357 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Greyman said: We were more tomatoes and potatoes from jersey in my area, think hops is a bit of a Kentish thing if memory serves No need for that mate 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel cain 46,514 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 24 minutes ago, baker boy said: My mates went hop picking up there I had a job selling firewood locally Used to go on the coal round with my dad early 80's real young then,sat in an old Bedford 7t wagon...most the older lads worked on the milk float 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dytkos 17,843 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 Did my first milk round on a horse and cart circa 1970 Cheers, D. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NEWKID 27,676 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, dytkos said: Did my first milk round on a horse and cart circa 1870 Cheers, D. Sorted that for you mate.. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dytkos 17,843 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 1 minute ago, NEWKID said: Sorted that for you mate.. Cheers Kev Cheers, D. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NEWKID 27,676 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 17 minutes ago, dytkos said: Cheers Kev Cheers, D. It felt weird nicking your favourite trick.. lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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