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2.9.31 to 19.9.31

X* Hops are trained up poles or over wires about 10 feet high, and grown in rows a yard or two apart. All the pickers have to do is to tear them down and strip the hops into a bin, … Continue reading →

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30.8.31

Posted on 30 August by orwelldiaries

Next morning the clergyman coming to early service caught us and turned us out, though not very disagreeably. We went on through Sevenoaks to Seal, and a man we met advised us to try for a job at Mitchell’s farm, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accommodation, apples, candles, church, clergyman, early service, evening service, farm, food, Ginger, Government inspectors, grocer, hop-fields, hop-picking, hops, hot water, Irishwoman, job, Kronk, lychgate, Maidstone, Mitchell, potatoes, raspberries, Seal, Sevenoaks, sugar, tea, theft, tobacco | 1 Comment

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