Hop Pickers (1957)

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Paddock Wood, Kent.
L/S of a deserted railway station, L/S of a steam train pulling into the station. C/U of a sign saying 'Paddock Wood', M/S of lots of men, women and children getting out of the carriages. M/S as they all make their way down the platform. L/S of two trucks outside the station with lots of people on the back. M/S of a group of women of all different ages sat on the back of a truck.
The narrator explains that these people have come hop picking, some have been coming for over 40 years and it has become a family tradition. C/U of one woman sat on the truck talking, L/S as the truck drives away. L/S as a truck drives round the corner towards the camera, C/U of the people and luggage as it passes the camera. The truck has 'Whitbread' written on the side. It drives up to the Oasthouses. Various shots of the people getting out of the trucks and unloading their luggage. L/S of a woman pushing a pram, she has another woman and a boy with her. There are several other people stood about with their luggage.
M/S of a woman putting up curtains over the door to her hut. M/S of another woman plumping up pillows. M/S of two men measuring some material on the ground, M/S of two women sewing a white sheet. C/U of a man carrying a tray of food into a hut, a woman is stood by the door.
M/S of hop plants (Humulus Lupulus) in a field. M/S of a branch being cut off, the camera pans down to show two elderly ladies and two young boys picking the hops from the branches and putting them in a big sack. M/S of two little boys pulling hops from a branch, C/U of the blonde boy picking the hops and smiling, he is four year old Arthur Foley from Brixton.
C/U of an elderly lady picking the hops, she is 65 year old Sarha Donnely who has been picking for 30 years. C/U of her hands pulling the hops off the branch. L/S of various groups picking hops and putting them into the sacks. L/S of a man tipping a basket of hops into a sack. M/S of a woman writing something in a book.
L/S of a horse and cart full of sacks of hops, C/U as it moves past the camera. M/S of the top of the Oasthouses shot from a low angle, these are where the hops are dried, C/U of the Oasthouses. M/S of horses and carts walking past, there is a tractor in the background. M/S as men lift the sacks onto their shoulders and carry them up into the building. C/U of the sacks going in. M/S as someone throws a sack to a man inside, he puts it on his shoulder. The narrator says that beer is not actually made from the hops, they are used to flavour it.
L/S of all the hop pickers at night, they are having a barbecue and there are pigs roasting on spits in the middle. L/S of the barbecue scene and the crowd of people.
FILM ID:67.14
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@VerbranntiChaib1 2 жыл бұрын

1957, A third of our class at junior school went hop picking with their family every year. When they come back, they were all sun- tannned, and looked happy and healthy. How I envied them.

@oscarosullivan4513 2 жыл бұрын

Sad to see the decline of hop growing over there and the old style hops such as fuggles, goldings and challenger. Some breweries here mainly use English style hops.

@thra5herxb12s 5 ай бұрын

@@oscarosullivan4513 French imports killed the industry.

@crickcrot 3 жыл бұрын

I went hop picking in Kent in the mid-1950s it was just an adventure for the kids and being chased by the farmer through nicking his apples in the orchard next door.

@ianrobert6239 2 жыл бұрын

The days when everyone looked happy.

@alanjones3631 3 жыл бұрын

I remember whitbreads hop farm in the days gone by the delivery man in the video taking the telfers meat pies into sids cafe best pies on the camp they was great days hop picking at whitbreads and weekends families would come down from London and have a wonderful time enjoying them self's at the pub opposite the farm the blue Bell Inn cherished memories

@elizabethsheffield6609 9 жыл бұрын

....my family - parents - grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins - all descended on Paddock Wood in the 50's & 60's from London Bridge Station until the picking became mechanised. prickly Straw beds to sleep/rest on,army blankets, candles, cooking outside, playing on the faggot piles i.e.the wood for the fires, weekends at the local pub "THE HOP POLES" singing outside and staggering back in the pitch black night to the hut, blackberry picking, the smell of the fresh hops - everyone happy! everyone dead now.

@mjrussell414 4 жыл бұрын

So interesting. The kids get right into it too.

@bianchikat 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for the videos lovely fascinating stuff..a time long gone. not really a holiday was it? a long interminable journey behind an ancient loco in ancient carriages if they were lucky all other traffic had priority over ahop pickers special

@alanjones3631 5 ай бұрын

The cafe come shed was run by Sid and his wife Elsie on whitbreads hop farm I remember the end of season banquet when micheal holiday sang at the banquet then everbody afterwards when the hop season was over go to the hop farm office with their tally book and redeem their books and collect their money for their season for hops picked my mums two brothers drove the chevrolet Lorrie’s to the fields when it was mechanised to the hop picking machines which was done automatic picking the bines of hops those was the days hard work for the hop season but througly enjoyed it cherished memories i wish they would come back again but the memories still stay on myself never to be forgotten