Hops Collection

Murraygate, Dundee - Celebration of the Jute Industry - this, along with its other major industries gave Dundee its epithet as the city of " jute, jam and journalism"

A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. Twort
A bucolic scene showing hop pickers in a Kentish landscape. Date: 1935

Hop Picking in Kent - Boughton District Date: 1907

Hoisting Hops
Hoisting 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

Pulling the Hops - Hop Pickers - West Malling, Kent. Date: 1938

Kent Hop Pickers
Hop-pickers in Kent collect their pay

A group of people hop picking in Kent. Date: circa 1910

People from Stepney, East London, hop picking in Kent. They were assisted by their local vicar, Reverend R Wilson (seen here in the centre) of St. Augustine s, Stepney. circa 1911

Hop Pickers 1907
Workers in a Kentish hop garden sorting hops from a large basket into an upturned umbrella

Oasthouses at Whitbreads Hop Gardens, Paddock Wood, Kent. Date: circa 1930s

Drying Hops 1906
Three men drying hops inside a Kentish oast house

Oast House in Kent

An Oast House in Kent Victorian period

Hop pickers in Kent - Victorian period

Kent Hop Pickers early 1900s

The Hop Garden, Wrotham, Kent Date: 1875

The Hop Garland, painted by W F Witherington RA
The Hop Garland, painting by W F Witherington RA - an idyllic hop-picking scene in Kent Date: 1834

Cartoon, The Man who Discovered the First Brew - medieval types drinking beer. Date: 1930

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

Trades in Regency England. Carpet weaving, hog feeding
Trades in Regency England. Carpet weaver at a loom in Wilton 16, pig farmer feeding hogs in Hampshire 17, and women knitting and embroidering with needles made in Chichester 18

Tariff Reform League Campaign Card
A campaign card by the Tariff Reform League shows a hop farmer complaining that cheap imports of hops will lead to his ending up in the workhouse. Date: 1908

Hop, Humulus lupulus. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer

Hops and coriander
Hops, Humulus lupulus, male 1, female 2, and coriander, Coriandrum sativum 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Hops, Humulus lupulus. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Common hop, Humulus lupulus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Hop pickers waiting for the midnight train, London Bridge Station, London. 1892

Hop-picking season in Kent 1901
Summer 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 1858
Hop 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 1858
Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and towns of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London

The Hop-Garland. 19th century

Sunday morning with hop-pickers 1871
Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and town of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London

Hops are picked in Surrey near Farnham Palace and sold at Weyhill Fair. Date: 1891

Little Lady Hops Aboard Date: 1948

Hop market in Borough 1729
Hop market in Borough. Date: 1729

Landscape Scene of Hop Picking 1858
Hop-picking, mainly in Kent and Sussex in early part of September and ends towards the end of October. Date: 1858

Hop Picking in Kent - Loading Pockets for Market - the writing on the pockets would suggest these were destined for a brewery in Leeds. Date: circa 1906

Hop Pickers
A group of hop pickers at work, probably in Kent. The hops, used to flavour beer, can be seen in the background trained up poles and wires. Date: Date unknown

Interior of Oast House, Kent, England. Showing the Hops Floor Date: 1910s

Women from Stepney, East London, hop picking in Kent
Three women from Stepney, East London, hop picking in Kent. They were assisted by their local vicar, Reverend R Wilson of St. Augustine s, Stepney. circa 1911

Family of Hop Pickers
A family of hop pickers, including a baby, children, adults and grandmother, stop work for a break and something to eat and drink

Watneys Happy Families - Mrs Hop, the Farmers Wife. circa 1930

Watneys Happy Families - Mr Hop, the Farmer. circa 1930

Watneys Happy Families - Miss Hop, the Farmers Daughter. circa 1930

Hop Picking - Kent - The Midday Rest Date: 1906

Hop Picking -- a Victorian family in the English countryside. 19th century

Great hop-pickers demonstration 1908
Dense crowds in Trafalgar square, demonstrating against a threatened industry of foreign hop imports, large crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square, London, estimated forthy to fifty thousand people

Handful of brewers hops, Cornwall
A handful of brewers hops taken from a sack, Cornwall. circa 1970s

Common hops, Humulus lupulus.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

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