Comments on: Roy Wild, Hop Picker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/14/roy-wild-hop-picker-j/ 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, 15 Aug 2023 09:09:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/14/roy-wild-hop-picker-j/#comment-1518540 Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:09:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196593#comment-1518540 What strikes me more than anything else is that the people in the photos all look so happy. Simpler times when people were grateful for everything they had.

In Scotland, people back then went to the berries which was raspberry picking, usually up in Perthshire.

]]> By: Sally https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/14/roy-wild-hop-picker-j/#comment-1518450 Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:49:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196593#comment-1518450 That was outstandingly beautiful. It was genius the way it followed on from yesterday’s.

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/14/roy-wild-hop-picker-j/#comment-1518444 Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:02:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196593#comment-1518444 Great stories, great photographs ….capturing the very essence of those summers for so many Eastenders.
Loved reading yesterday and today’s posts, despite the hard work and the basic accommodation
they all looked so smart when ‘off duty’ from picking.
Happy times and happy memories.

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