Images Dated 5th June 2020

Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down

Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19, shepherd with flock of sheep on the South Downs 20, and explosion at a gunpowder mill in Battle, Sussex 21. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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