hop-picking

I went hop-picking as a child, too, so I remember it well.

Jacqueline Winspear - An interview with author 2010

Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss.

An Incomplete Revenge: Summary and book reviews of An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear. 2008

I used to go hop-picking with my parents in the early 1950s.

Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff #9 2007

The tradition of working-class Londoners going hop-picking goes back at least to the eighteenth century.

Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff #9 2007

A pre-shoot had already taken place during summer in Kent for a sequence showing hop-picking.

Archive 2007-03-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007

At one establishment 12,000 pigs are killed, pickled, and packed every fall; and in the whole neighbourhood, as I have heard in the cars, the “hog crop” is as much a subject of discussion and speculation as the cotton crop of Alabama, the hop-picking of Kent, or the harvest in England.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

A pre-shoot had already taken place during summer in Kent for a sequence showing hop-picking.

Bumper posting: Films of Michael Caine DAVID BISHOP 2007

Stay — twenty-three or four years ago, she came out once, and thought to earn a little money by hop-picking; but being overworked, and having to lie out at night, she got a palsy which has incapacitated her from all further labor, and has caused her poor old limbs to shake ever since.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Once when I was hop-picking I asked the sweated pickers

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

Little dirty Jack, who abides in Clement's Inn gateway, and blacks my boots for a penny, takes his month's hop-picking every year as a matter of course.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971