Faversham Hop Fest was supposed to be held this weekend, but was sadly cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here, we look back at some old pictures of hop farming in Kent - which is what the ...

But hops were initially imported, and the first hop garden wasn't recorded in Kent until 1523, at Westbere. Soon, hop farming began to boom in the area. A historic pic of hop picking in Kent.

Hop Along Thanet is one of a number of community hop growing groups across Kent. It has more than 50 members who have planted ...

At its height, from the 1920s to the 1950s, around 200,000 Londoners would make trip to Kent hop gardens; Blissful pilgrimage began to decline when British brewers decided to import American hops; ...

Kent’s baptismal records show that people have been travelling to the area’s hop gardens to be employed as hop pickers, or hoppers as they are known, since the mid 1800s.

Affectionately known as the Garden of England for its hop fields, fruit orchards and vineyards, Kent is ringed on three sides ...

A 'opping down in Kent. The whole street would go with Fred. Mum, grandma, his sister as well as many neighbours. The hop farm would arrange the transport by lorry, by train or if they were really ...

But the closest many city families in London, especially around the docklands, came to a “normal” holiday was a few weeks’ paid work in the Kentish hop gardens. All Sections News you can ...

From the early 1700s until World War II, every September, the unemployed and destitute of London and other emerging cities, traipsed into Kent’s hop gardens to harvest the crop which forms the ...

Hop Along Thanet is one of a number of community hop growing groups across Kent. It has more than 50 members who have planted 150 hop bines in their gardens and allotments across Thanet.

The first English book of hop growing was written by a hop farmer from Kent. ‘A Perfite Platform of a Hoppe Garden’ made its first appearance in 1574, its author Reginalde Scot, farmed land in ...