Hop Pickers' Barbecue (1955)
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2014
- Paddock Wood, Kent
Low angle shot hop vines . Young boy pulls one down. Young girl and boy pull off the hops and put them in basket. M/S family in sunshine sorting through the hops. C/U shot old lady sitting by trough pulling off the hops. General shots families putting hops into bin. Shots of a measurer and checker who keep a record of each family's "drift". Nice hop picking footage.
M/S people working in hop fields, some carrying hops in sack which are taken to an old fashioned cart. M/S man entering figure into book whilst woman looks on. M/S horse and cart moves through hop field with sacks loaded on it. Several views of bare hop poles after harvest with no people in shot. Top shot of oast houses.
Night shots of barbecue, a man in Elizabethan clothes (Mr Mumford Cooke) puts a garland of hops on the oldest "hopper" Annie Gorman. Shots of children and women look on, then C/U meat being carved. M/S Mr Mumford Cooke presents first slice of roasted ox to Annie Gorman (she's been coming here for 69 years) More shots of huge ox on spit and Mr Mumford Cooke carving the meat.
Shots of women putting the meat on bread and children taking away the sandwiches. Top shot of the barbecue with hundreds of people milling around.
FILM ID:35.23
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I was seven years old when this was filmed. My father worked for Whitebreads he was responsible for organizing the hop pickers accommodation each year. After almost 70 years I recognize a number of people in the film!
....bet those sandwiches were the best they ever tasted! this was the same time our family went there....one of these videos must have us on it...surely!
I like beer, but I'm definitely not a hop-head. I wonder how the older beers would've tasted. The ones from before the use of hops started really taking off.
West London Chiswick , Devonshire Road/William Street. A relation had an open backed lorry, he and his wife would take us all down to Paddock Wood, leaving his wife with us. Open fires spuds on a stick, black pot cooking rabbit stew. Cant wait for the Fish and Chip van. Tucked up, on the straw the rain bashing off the corrugated roof. Outside the Pub, bottle of Lemonade and crisps. Our own kids gang, didn’t know that East London existed, but kids are kids we all mixed, even with the Gypsy kids , our Chiswick heritage, Hawkers etc . Off scrumping. Being told off for putting leaves in the bin. Whats that your cooking? On the Gypsy fire? First you gut it son , then roll it in clay and when its cooked pull off the clay and off comes the spines? It was an hedgehog. I was not offered any. Mum said if your hungry enough. Off down to Paddock Wood summer 2023, down memory lane.
I was raised in Marden village next to paddock wood!
I loved the old days when I was a teenager about 20yr ago, the pickers would still come down for the summer from the south/east end usually and i remember the madness all the olders in the local boozer lol
Good old days I remember growing up
I was one of the local gypsy kids
The carver eating a bit off the carving fork and then using it to serve some more up. No health and safety back then!