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Orchard

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Arthur Turk

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Arthur Turk

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Cultivating hops

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The Ray family

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Geese

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Spraying apples 1955

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Hop picking 1952

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Spraying with lances

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Pruning

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Watering young trees

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Whirlybirds

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Three Generations

Orchard

A Bramley and Howgate Wonder orchard

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Arthur Turk

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Arthur Turk

Arthur Turk apple picking 1955

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Cultivating hops

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The Ray family

Fred and Daisy Ray with their family hop picking 1952. Fred and Daisy were Londoners from the east end who brought the family for the annual holiday hop picking. They loved the 'Garden of England' so much that they moved down to Marden and worked on the farm until they retired in 1996

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Geese

Geese grazing in a pear orchard 1952

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A full load of hops leaving Little Mill Farm for the Borough market in London

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Spraying apples 1955

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Hop picking 1952

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Spraying with lances

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Pruning

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Watering young trees

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Whirlybirds

The summer of 1958 was so wet that the only way to spray the hops for disease was from the air. Had they not been treated, the entire crop would have been lost

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Three Generations

HE, John and a very small Peter in the garden at Little Pattenden

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