Hopping
the hidden lives of an East End hop picking family
- author
- Melanie McGrath
- Narrator
- Rachel Atkins
- Length
- 10 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher
- Oakhill
- Catalogue #
- 8701
- Categories
- History - General
- Reviews
- 0 star rating
For more than a century, hopping was the main event in the East End calendar, with over 200,000 East Enders descending on Kent looking for casual work picking hops. 'Hopping' captures this period from the 20s to the 50s, and shows how each place was forever altered by the other.