WEST COUNTRY HOP HARVEST
CONVEYANCE OF PICKERS (By Air Mail—From Cur Own Correspondent./ ■ LONDON, 3rd September. It is not only from London into Kent that' special arrangements have to be made for the conveyance of hoppickers. For next week, between 7th an.d 14th September, the Great Western Railway has arranged for the running of 50 special trains to carry such workers from the mining dis-
' tricts of South Wales and the industrial areas of Birmingham and Wolverhampton to the extensive hop-fields of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The chief growing areas of these counties, which are by no means well known to many people who think that Kent possesses a monopoly in the “weed,” lie around Hereford, Ledbury, Withington, Ashperton and Stoke Edith. Hops, however, are grown in considerable quantity in Hampshire, Shropshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire. The acreage grown in Herefordshire is the second largest in the country, while more than a third of the total crop is grown along the G.W.R. system.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 8
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