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Description: | View from what is now Whitedown across to All Saints Church with Butts Road running across the picture. We can see here how the whole pole that the hops grew up was pulled out of the ground so that even the smallest member of the family could reach. Note how well dressed the people on the left are as they fill their surplice with hops and how their surplice is supported on a frame. The children use a small basket for their contribution. Growing, picking and drying hops was a major business for those in the Alton area, even before they were put to use in the breweries, throughout the 19th century and up to the 1960s. Hop picking time in particular would see large numbers of travellers, gypsies and itinerant workers descend on Alton, indeed whole families would come from Portsmouth and Southampton as well as many from London to spend some weeks in the fresh air and earn some money. Hop picking would start in late August or early September and would last about five weeks. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Museums Service | Subjects: | work farm hop picking All Saints Church church Whitedown hops brewing farming | Temporal: | start=1880-01-01; end=1880-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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