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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...

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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 ?

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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 .

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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 ?  

 

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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 ?

 

 

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