'Hopping Down in Kent' (Thrash Photography Short Film)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- Shot in the Summer of 2010 by a camerman for the Kent News Shopper paper (apologies their name is unavailable)
Presented by Michael Ellsmore and Eddie Armer, the short film was created to tie in with Michael's non-fiction book about his family's experience of hop picking down in Kent.
The footage was shot down at the largely empty hop fields at the tail end of summer - many of the images included are from his family photo album (also my family Michael is my uncle). I edited the footage into a short narrative documentary which has now been put on file at the Museum of Kent. Which is very nice.
Those happy days gone and will sadly never come back. Very happy memories of East Peckham with my parents
Brings back some brill memories. I picked hops around Faversham and Ospringe with my mam and nan in the sixties just before the machienes took over. I'm from County Durham but Mam was from Kent so Hop picking was my childhod holidays. I remember the huts, nan brought the furniture and oil lamps, sitting round the camp fire singing hopping songs, being sent for water from an old fashioned pump, pillows filled with hops, aah the smell, I still remember it. Happy happy memories
heather i lived in ospringe in water lane i remember playing up the hop huts as a kid the farm was queen court all our family were londoners yes they were great times to be a kid
many memorys of those huts,i stayed in these at boughton church all through the 60s my family picked their for many years from the 40s onwards.
they are still my huts, I still do hop picking, but machines now, I store firewood in them now as I bought a house here,
*My friend owns one of these Oast Houses in East Peckham*
great memories but all a bit mixed up. Hand picking into bins very different from when machines came in. The big sacks held ten bushels and were called "pokes", after drying in the oast house they were pressed into "pockets". And yes as the local man says hop "gardens"
If you want to try hop picking, hops are very easy to grow LoL you can get rhyzomes on ebay and plant them in compost around late Feb or March. Then hopefully around September, you will be harvesting and then having a brew day LoL
Went with my mum when I was 9 , the dragon flies at night by candle light looked like monsters to my young mind, we came from Poplar
the men on stilts were the hop stringers, who strung the field in early spring, and the pole pullers, with long poles with a hook at the end, got the hops off the wires
i worked on the hop plant shown in this film a couple of months ago. hard work but good times
That’s my grandad!
took your advice centenial and a few other types growing away now.nan would be proud
Lovely days shame
Does anyone rember The Lees out of Blackheath. Fairgorund people John/Jack lee and his daughters Vinnie and Louise 1930's
Why don’t they just leave things alone they had to have a house instead of the pub! Now Brexit has happened we need to go back to what worked
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This is a very interesting video but spoilt by the totally unnecessary use of background music ! Why on earth do you feel that the subject matter is not interesting enough that it has to have some random music playing?