WHILE LONDON SLEEPS
Shelling peas for the family dinner is a tedious and finger-soiling job, but imagine taking up the work as a profession! In Covent Garden there are women wno can shell eight quarts in an hour, and their work is done early in the morning, when London is asleep, states an exchange. The shelled peas are bought up by the London hotels and big restaurants, thereby saving time that would have to be spent by thitr own staffs. The peas start to come in from overseas to Covent Garden in January—from Algeria, Italy, and France, and the English peas come last of all.
In the autumn these same women go to the hopfields of Kent, and, when all the hops arc picked, they find work in London warehouses, sorting seeds, until the pea-shelling season starts again.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 17
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138WHILE LONDON SLEEPS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 17
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