Comments on: Hop Picking At Lamberhurst

By: Tayla Jayne Playford

Tayla Jayne Playford — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:39:07 +0000

My Nan talks about hop picking all the time and would love to do it again.

Do you allow people to come and hop pick? I know she would love to, it would bring back so many memories

Tayla

By: Christopher Elliott

Christopher Elliott — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:30:55 +0000

My family , mum , dad brothers and sister used to train the hops here from mid 70s to early 80s , was hard work but loved it even though I was only 7 or 8 at the time , lovely hot days , playing in the river ,only lived 10 minutes away from the farm , the good old days so they say , I think they were , good memories,,,

By: Shirley

Shirley — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:48:34 +0000

Thank you so much. Our farm in Wittersham grew hops until 1965. They were picked by local people but joined by many friends and family on holiday…. Laughter and conversations from bin to bin, the impossible task of persuading children to pick their share into an upturned umbrella, starving hungry and cold meat pie and runner bean salad and tea hot from a scalding Billy can at 12 o’clock and the terrible sting of the hop bine scratches when we were scrubbed clean each night….and lucky me sometimes allowed to sleep by the oast fires all night and help turn the hops above in the roundel ….

By: Debbie Allan

Debbie Allan — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:57:07 +0000

Thank you so much for the great photos. I enjoyed seeing what my mum and dad are up to on their adventures. Thanks also to Susanna (my college friend). I love how our worlds are entwined through this great organization.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:02:12 +0000

Such a lovely day for remembering the days gone past. I recall seeing the oast houses on various trips in the UK and wished I’d had time to see this hop picking. Perhaps in another lifetime!

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:55:54 +0000

How lovely to see an oast house still with hops in it. I used to visit my grandparents near Sittingbourne and see the hop harvest. I can almost smell it still from 3000 miles and 50+ years away. Great article, GA!

By: Ros

Ros — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:14:43 +0000

What a lovely post both to read and to look at. You and Colin have captured the spirit of the day beautifully and each photo and paragraph tells us how it was. Talk about sunshine and smiles! Marvellous to see people looking so happy and hops still being cultivated and put to use.

By: Joan Halliday

Joan Halliday — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 12:53:46 +0000

My father used to drive hop pickers to Kent from the East End in his lorry. They took pots and pans and blankets with them.. They were always very jolly.
They seemed to have a lovely time.
It is wonderful that some people are still going.

By: Achim

Achim — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:29:37 +0000

Gorgeous harvest time …!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Hermann Hasler

Hermann Hasler — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:20:11 +0000

Here to complet the article music from The Albion Band about hopping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8cNUN7cg3Q