Hop Pickers

Hop Pickers FACES OF THE HOP FIELDS hop pickers on a Staplehurst , Kent , farm . Mr . Ernest Catchpoles , who runs the farm , is one of a steadily-diminishing number of farmers who still employ hand hop pickers in this age of automation . A number of those who do the picking have been going to his place for 50 years and more . 1956 PICTURE SHOWS:- A free ride on the back of the lorry for three you…