Dave Hill wrote:

School holidays will depend where he was in England as Parts of London
and Kent (and I would suspect other hop growing regions) the summer
holidays were later so as to allow families to spend September hop
picking, there was a mass migration from the East End of London to the
Kent hop fields.

Even further off topic, but school terms in my area (northeastern U.S.)
were adjusted for the hop picking season. A fertile valley south of me
grew them many years ago, and one machine in a local farmer's museum is a
press that compressed hops into bricks for shipment.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
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