Hotels In Covent Garden London England Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/hotels-in-covent-garden-london-england Sat, 23 Feb 2019 14:29:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Visit To Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight The Hop Garden Of England http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-kent-green-hop-beer-fortnight-the-hop-garden-of-england.html http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-kent-green-hop-beer-fortnight-the-hop-garden-of-england.html#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2019 23:28:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=270816 Between the 1920s and 1960s, at the end of the summer, thousands of East End Londoners, mostly women and children, would travel to Kent’s hop fields to pick the annual harvest. It was a vacation of sorts—hard labor in the late-summer sun to earn a bit of extra money. Hops have been grown in Kent—known as The Garden of England —since the 16th century. The county has always accounted for significant amounts of England’s annual hop acreage, with farmers such as Mr Golding and Mr Fuggle giving their names to new hop varieties. Since reaching a peak in 1878, the

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