https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/15/hopping-photographs-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 06 May 2025 12:51:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/15/hopping-photographs-x/#comment-1719534 Tue, 06 May 2025 12:51:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192802#comment-1719534 Great photos on this site. Only went hopping once as a child, but still remember it.
This photo no 46 is titled the Day family but the two older people in front and centre are not part of the Day family. They were their neighbours though.
Their names are George James Pye and Matilda Maria Pye. I know this as they were my grandparents. Depending on when the photo was taken, the baby could be my eldest brother, although not sure about that , it might be a girl and part of the Day family.
Kind regards
Fred

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/15/hopping-photographs-x/#comment-1478096 Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:27:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192802#comment-1478096 What wonderful pictures of the Hop Pickers you’ve been posting recently. I went to senior school on the edge of Surrey, but girls from gypsy families I was at school with never appeared at the beginning of each autumn term as they’d all gone hop picking in Kent with their families. I was quite envious of them all! My brother used to take me to Harrison’s Rock for climbing in the late 50s and early 60s, and we’d get the train to either Eridge or Groombridge, and then walk across the hop fields up to the Rocks. The picture above have triggered all sorts of old memories for me.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/15/hopping-photographs-x/#comment-1476945 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 19:44:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192802#comment-1476945 I’ll bet it was hard work, but everyone in these photos looks like they’re having a jolly time amongst family and friends.
In my part of Scotland people used to go raspberry picking at Blairgowrie in Perthshire. It was known as “going to the berries”.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/15/hopping-photographs-x/#comment-1476908 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:04:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192802#comment-1476908 These are a great set of photos. Every account I’ve ever read by hop-pickers and the photos I’ve seen show such enjoyment.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/15/hopping-photographs-x/#comment-1476886 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:57:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192802#comment-1476886 A fabulous archive of a rich tradition.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/15/hopping-photographs-x/#comment-1476884 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:29:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192802#comment-1476884 What a great set of photos. Must have been hard work but they all look like they are enjoying a break from the streets of London. Wonder when the last “hopping” year was?

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/15/hopping-photographs-x/#comment-1476863 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:03:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192802#comment-1476863 I love that they’ve taken care to name all the people in all the pictures so meticulously, and that the date range is so wide: 1905 – 1972.

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