KENT PREPARES FOR HOP HARVEST.—"Hop stringers,” men and women who weave annually a vast spider’s web of cord, at work in a field in Kent About 300,000 miles of cord is used for growing the hops required for flavouring Britain’s 9000 million pints of beer. With the aid of 10ft poles, usually wielded by men, the cord is linked from hooks set in the ground to more hooks attached to rows of wire stretched 15ft above the fields. The women, known as “banders-in,” follow the men and tie each group of four vertical cords together about 5ft from the ground, thus strengthening the whole network.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 22
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105KENT PREPARES FOR HOP HARVEST.—"Hop stringers,” men and women who weave annually a vast spider’s web of cord, at work in a field in Kent About 300,000 miles of cord is used for growing the hops required for flavouring Britain’s 9000 million pints of beer. With the aid of 10ft poles, usually wielded by men, the cord is linked from hooks set in the ground to more hooks attached to rows of wire stretched 15ft above the fields. The women, known as “banders-in,” follow the men and tie each group of four vertical cords together about 5ft from the ground, thus strengthening the whole network. Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 22
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