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Ice Cream for the Fruit pickers The ice cream vendor does a steady trade throughout

Ice Cream for the Fruit pickers
The ice cream vendor does a steady trade throughout the day - on Kent fruit fields during the hot weather. This picture was taken on Whitehead's farm at St Mary's Cray, Kent, when raspberries were being picked.
26/6/52

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Buy, Child, Children, Field, Fruit Pick, Icecream, Line, Mother, Queue, Sell, Summer, Van, Wait, Work, Workers, Working, Young

Women hop pickers in Beltring, Kent. Each worker has a gas mask over their shoulder

Women hop pickers in Beltring, Kent.
Each worker has a gas mask over their shoulder in box in case of a gas attack.
1939

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1930s, 20th Century, 30s, Basket, Black And White, Child, Children, Countryside, English Rural Life, Europeana Photography, Farmers, Farming, Field, Gas Mask Box, Gasmask Box, Girl, Girls, Home Front, Hop Bine, Hop Farm, Hop Picker, Hop Pickers, Hop Picking, Hops, Land Girls, Monochrome, Nineteen Thirties, Picker, Pickers, Picking, Rural Life, Thirties, Topham, Twentieth Century, Wla, Woman, Worker, Workers, World War Two Ww2 Second World War, Ww2 Wwii World War Two, Young Girl

Bumper Australian wheat crop will aid starving Europe after World War II food shortage

Bumper Australian wheat crop will aid starving Europe after World War II food shortage. Eight horses tandem team, one of the few remaining in Parkes, pulls header on W.H. Pavey's field. 75% of haulage is done on tractors.
2nd February 1946

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