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- 5 photos on Goudhurst appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Goudhurst
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Forge Farm
Just found this site while looking for Chinley which I believe is close by.
Forge Farm memories of the fun times we had as children hop picking with nan and gran-dad, dad and mum, aunts and uncles and of course my siblings. At that time the farm supplied student teachers for the children's education, no one went as we were all too busy playing or fishing in the pond in the middle of the common.
Home was a corrugated iron hut, very basic, the bed was made from timber poles with slats laid across. I remember we always took a large cotton mattress case with us and it was our job to fill this with straw supplied by the farmer, ...read more here
Contributed by Tom Cole
Kent memories
Forge Farm
Just found this site while looking for Chinley which I believe is close by.
Forge Farm memories of the fun times we had as children hop picking with nan and gran-dad, dad and mum, aunts and uncles and of course my siblings. At that time the farm supplied student teachers for the children's education, no one went as we were all too busy playing or fishing in the pond in the middle of the common.
Home was a corrugated iron hut, very basic, the bed was made from timber poles with slats laid across. I remember we always took a large cotton mattress case with us and it was our job to fill this with straw supplied by the farmer, ...read more here
A memory of Goudhurst contributed by Tom Cole
Hop fields
Horsmonden - the end of my hop picking days. I was born in east London 1939 and hop picking was four weeks in the country, camp fire cooking in the evening, a sing along and down to the Gun or the Town House on Saturday evening. Then came 1960 and I was called up for National Service spending two years away.
I have now retired and acquired a PC. I have found the internet to which I am
new to and found your site. Lots of memories came flooding back and I can
find a use for some spare time. Thank you for a new interest.
Brian
A memory of Horsmonden contributed by Brian Long
THOSE LONG LOST DAYS IN LAMBERHURST
It was indeed interesting reading Roger Barden's account of Lamberhurst, but feel he has left out a few salient points. Of course Curtis the newsagents and Avards the bakers with the ever inquisitive Mrs Avards were selling that delicious bread and sweets for the children going to school. But of course there was just up the hill Gurr's the butcher's complete with pony & trap to deliver his meat together with a very young Peter Sands who went on to have and maintain his own business in the village. Along from Avards, Fred Ashdown briefly had a barber's shop, and next to him was Reeve's the grocers and where the post office is now sat this little lady, whose name I ...read more here
A memory of Lamberhurst contributed by Mike G. Beech
Extracts From Goudhurst & Kent books
This scene was snapped from the church and faces down the hill. On the right is the Goudhurst Coffee House, and it looks as if a shop is next door. Eedes the chemist sits behind the trees (centre). I wonder if the horse and cart, left, was on its way to collect the hops recently picked in the fields nearby.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".
This beautiful village is set up on a hilltop, surrounded by orchards and hopfields. St Mary’s Church was founded in
the 14th century, with its tower built in 1640. It crowns the hill, and has many monuments to the Culpeper family.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Beautiful Villages".
The newly installed railway connection serving the Weald of Kent had no doubt dropped many of these workers off to start work in the hop fields. They all seem relaxed enough to pose for the camera as they weigh in their bushels for the farmer. A hundred years later, much of their handiwork would be replaced by machines.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".
In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste. At hop harvest, armies of the London poor travelled out to enjoy a few weeks of healthy open-air labour. In this picture, the pickers pose in the dappled shade.
An extract from from"Times Gone By".
In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste. At hop harvest, armies of the London poor travelled out to enjoy a few weeks of healthy open-air labour. In this picture, the pickers pose in the dappled shade.
An extract from from"Countryside Poems".