Lost Voices
In the 1940s, nearly a quarter of a million East Londoners decamped annually for the hopfields of Kent. Most of the pickers were women, who would take their children and other dependent relatives to stay in the hoppers'' huts on the farms.
This book records the memories of some of them, in their own lively words. Funny, nostalgic and ironic by turns, they tell of hopping as ''a break from him'', an...
In the 1940s, nearly a quarter of a million East Londoners decamped annually for the hopfields of Kent. Most of the pickers were women, who would take their children and other dependent relatives to stay in the hoppers'' huts on the farms.
This book records the memories of some of them, in their own lively words. Funny, nostalgic and ironic by turns, they tell of hopping as ''a break from him'', an...
