Photography — 1952
Harvesting the Hops
Hops are a climbing plant and are trained to grow up strings or wires. Specially trained men wearing stilts would set up the wires. The hops were ready to be harvested in late August and the job usually took six weeks. Many London families came together to work and live on the farms seeing this as a holiday from their poor living conditions at home. Machines replaced hand picking in the 1960s.
- Category:
- Photography
- Object ID:
- HG1394/22
- Object name:
- Harvesting the Hops
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Grant, Henry
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- Production date:
- 1952
- Material:
cellulose acetate
- Measurements/duration:
- 6x6
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
Purchased with V&A Purchase Grant Fund support.
- Copyright holder:
London Museum
- Image credit:
© Henry Grant Collection/London Museum
- Creative commons usage:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
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