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Ah well, that's what I wondered, David. He was at school in rural Essex.
His family owned a nursery in Upshire so his childhood was spent there and
they didn't do the hop picking migration thing. But I did wonder if school
terms could have been affected by such things in rural areas.

'Op Pickin' generally affected urban areas. Some of my pupils - indeed,
getting on for half of them - used to roll up for school several weeks
after the beginning of the Michaelmas term.

(Schools in Custom House and Canning Town)

'Op Pickin' was about the only holiday 'away' most of the families ever had.

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