THE PEA SHELLERS
.WOMEN AT COVENT GARDEN Shelling peas for the family dinner is a tedious and finger-soiling job, but imagm# -ia'king up the work as* a pro 1 fessionJ Jn Covent Garden there are women who can shell eight quarts in an hour, and their work is done early in the morning, when London is asleep. The shelled' peas are bought up by the London hotels and big restaurants, thereby' saving time that would have to be spent by their 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, w hen all the hops are. picked, they can find work in London warehouses, sorting Beeds, until the pea-shelling season. 6tarts again.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22612, 28 December 1936, Page 3
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143THE PEA SHELLERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22612, 28 December 1936, Page 3
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