PEA SHELLING
AS A PROFESSION 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 who can shdl eight quarts in an hour, and their work is done early in the morning when London is asleep. The shelled psas are bought up by the London hotels and big restaurants, -thereby sating time that would have to be spent by their own staffs. The peas star! to come in from overseas to Coveit 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 hop fields of Krnt, and when all the_ hops are picked: they can find work in London warehouses sorting seeds until the pea-stelling season starts again.
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Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 12
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138PEA SHELLING Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 12
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