Just in case this little bit of social history is any help to John - I actually went hop picking at Cranbrook in Kent when a student in about 1969 and 1970. We stayed in a caravan on the farm for about a fortnight until the job was done. I mostly drove a tractor to harvest the hops and get them in from the fields. It was great fun. And for a student the money was good too! This was in the dying years of traditional hop picking, but there were several families there from the East End. Some had been going to the same farm for many many years. They mostly worked in the "picking shed", sorting the hops as they were stripped off the vines and preparing them to go in the oast house. I remember being enthralled by their tales of life (and hardship) in the East End. Gordon Lickfold #313 ----Original message---- >From : [email protected] Date : 21/03/2016 - 11:08 (GMTST) To : [email protected] Subject : Re: [G] 1939 Register Might be worth continuing the background research on hop pickers - I believe a lot of families from greater London did decamp to Kent for the hop picking season, so this Croydon Catherine Laws could well be the right one. Corinne Curtis On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Tim Treeby via <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > There is a Catherine Laws, Death registered June 2003 in Croydon, > DOB given as 18/9/1905. > Regarding Marriage, most likely one I can see is Frederick C Laws who > marries a Catherine Howard in Southwark in 1930. > > Tim Treeby > _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
My great grandmother took her children to hollingbourne, kent in 1939. It was the first I knew that the family were not in Essex. Spoke to my mother who explained that her grandmother often took them hop picking. It's amazing how new memories are unlocked with a key phrase. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon Lickfold via Sent: 21 March 2016 11:38 To: Corinne Curtis <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [G] 1939 Register - Hop picking - for John Laws Just in case this little bit of social history is any help to John - I actually went hop picking at Cranbrook in Kent when a student in about 1969 and 1970. We stayed in a caravan on the farm for about a fortnight until the job was done. I mostly drove a tractor to harvest the hops and get them in from the fields. It was great fun. And for a student the money was good too! This was in the dying years of traditional hop picking, but there were several families there from the East End. Some had been going to the same farm for many many years. They mostly worked in the "picking shed", sorting the hops as they were stripped off the vines and preparing them to go in the oast house. I remember being enthralled by their tales of life (and hardship) in the East End. Gordon Lickfold #313 ----Original message---- >From : [email protected] Date : 21/03/2016 - 11:08 (GMTST) To : [email protected] Subject : Re: [G] 1939 Register Might be worth continuing the background research on hop pickers - I believe a lot of families from greater London did decamp to Kent for the hop picking season, so this Croydon Catherine Laws could well be the right one. Corinne Curtis On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Tim Treeby via <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > There is a Catherine Laws, Death registered June 2003 in Croydon, > DOB given as 18/9/1905. > Regarding Marriage, most likely one I can see is Frederick C Laws who > marries a Catherine Howard in Southwark in 1930. > > Tim Treeby > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus