Media Gallery

Hop picking

Green hops

Oast repairs 1977

John Hall

Hop picking

Fred Ray and Jeff Cranham gathering the crop from the hop garden

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Londoner Pat Curtis on the final belt of the hop picking machine

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Wally Botten aka 'Snowball' delivers green hops from the hop picking shed to the oast

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The magnificent oast, built in 1895, at Little Mill Farm without it's cowls during re-roofing

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The cowls return from re-furbisment on the HE Hall AEC Mercury

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The cowels start their journey back to the top of the kilns

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The first cowl is raised the 60 feet to the kiln top

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The cowl is lowered into place as Ron Robeson and Chris Pursglove admire the view

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Ron Robeson fits the cowl into it's final resting place

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Herbert E Hall (left) presenting a retirement gift to Charlie 'farnes' Barnes

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JH surveys the cleared House Garden hop garden (now a vineyard) after a long day hop picking

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JH (left) at a hop growers presentation lunch

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