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Tate & Lyle RefineryA coastal barge sailing by the famous Tate and Lyle sugar refinery works, Plaistow Wharf, off Silvertown, North Woolwich, east London
Hop Picking into BinsKent hop pickers picking into bins
A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. TwortA bucolic scene showing hop pickers in a Kentish landscape. Date: 1935
Carrying Tea by CamelCarrying tea by camel in Asia
Hop Pickers 1900A group of Kentish hop pickers
French Champagne CellarsMaking champagne in the cellars of a French vineyard Date: late 19th century
Hop Pickers Tally OffKent hop pickers " tallying off"
The Brewer 1827Brewers sweat and toil as they stir and brew beer and haul heavy barrels up and down a ladder next to the sweltering heat of a kiln
Hoisting HopsHoisting pokes of hops onto a drying platform. Despite modern advances such as mechanical hop presses, horses were still being used for hoisting the pokes (sacks). Date: 1930s
Phylloxera VastatrixThe PHYLLOXERA VASTATRIX - the tiny insect first noticed in 1865 in southern France and which devastated vineyards for decades to follow : it attacks the plant, not the grapes
Human vegetable figure. circa 1825
Jolly Grape PickersA grinning group of grape pickers pose for the camera in a vineyard in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s
Coffee PlantCoffee plant, showing the berries, which contain the coffee beans
Hop Pickers 1907Workers in a Kentish hop garden sorting hops from a large basket into an upturned umbrella
Desclieux / Coffee PlantCaptain Gabriel Mathieu Desclieux, a French Navy Officer, uses his water ration to save a single coffee plant which instigated the entire Martinique Coffee Industry
McNabs tree transplanter, as used in EdinburghMcNabs tree transplanter, as used by him in the Royal Scottish Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland. Date: circa 1850
Epernay Vineyard, 1987A champagne vineyard near Epernay. Date: 1987
Pruning Vines Spain 1511A Catalan wine-grower prunes his vines
Limone, Lake Garda, ItalyLimone sul Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy), on the shore of Lake Garda
Drying Hops 1906Three men drying hops inside a Kentish oast house
St Julien, MedocBeycheville Saint-Julien, Medoc - a wine chateau in the Bordeaux region
Hop Tally Men 1907Hop picking " Tally men
Seasons / February / VinesA farmer prunes his vines
Wine Boats / Oporto RiverWine boats sailing up the Douro River at Oporto
Wine Press, Circa 1880A wine press
Alsace Festival, 1911Happy vineyard workers dance through the fields during the fete de vendanges (vineyard festival) in Alsace, France
Bottling at Mumm s
American Samoa - Pago Pago - production of copraPago Pago, Capital of American Samoa - the cultivation of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) for the production of copra, the dried flesh of the coconut
Farmer ploughing using two working mules Njegusi, MontenegroA farmer ploughs the soil using two working mules to pull his plough in the village of Njegusi in the Cetinje Municipality of southern Montenegro, This is on the slopes of Mount Lovcen
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Sedentary Lifestyle not happyVietnamese Patriotic Poster - A Sedentary Lifestyle is not happy! Date: circa mid-1970s
Africa. The perfect Banana (Musa paradisiaca)History of Africa. 19th century. The perfect Banana (Musa paradisiaca). Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre
Bombo manchego. Traditional rural architecture of La ManchaSpain, Castile-La Mancha, Ciudad Real province. Surroundings of Tomelloso. Bombo manchego. A kind of vaulted hut made with stone labs without mortar, coming from the plowing of the vinyeards
Cultivation PaddockThis etching shows an Australian cultivation paddock, with a broad picturesque landscape set behind the horse. Date: circa 1925
AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWERAn American tobacco grower sits leaning on a barrel of the tobacco which will be sent away to poison the lives of millions of wretched victims doomed to a miserable death Date: 1871
Tea Tree, Thea Bohea, China. Date: 1820
Stages of tea production, China -- Tea Tree, Thea Bohea Loureiro. Date: 1820
Gathering the leaves of the tea plant, China. (2 of 4) Date: 1832
Final process of mixing the tea, China. (4 of 4) Date: 1832
Cultivation of the tea plant, China. (1 of 4) Date: 1832
Tea gathering in Japan. Date: 1881
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Sri LankaFrys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Ceylon Sri Lanka. 1893
Unknown British town scene - with Monkey Puzzle tree. An interesting early photograph of Araucaria Arucana (Monkey Puzzle Tree) which is very slow-growing
Chinese labourer with umbrella and peasantChinese labourer with bamboo-and-paper umbrella and peasant in rice-straw cape, QIng Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon
Cultivation and manufacture of cocoa 1855Cocoa plantation in the island of Grenada. Cocoa trees are planted in rows, like apple trees in an orchard. Great care was used to keep the young trees free from the quanity os small climbing
Hop-picking season in Kent 1901Summer months were very popular for going to Kent for the annual hop-picking season. People would come from miles around to spend the summer months sleeping in primitive camps for two or three weeks
Hop-picking on the road 1858Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and town of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London
Hop-picking resting 1858Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and towns of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London
Gardener and greenhouse. 19th century