Limited Edition of 18 prints only - Sold unframed/unmounted.

Vansons Rubber Ink, Handprinted on 270gsm recycled paper stock, 565x316mm

Faithfully Reproduced 1940’s Hop Pickers Train ticket. In this case, the ticket allowed for the journey back home from Bodiam to either London Bridge or New Cross, London, after bringing in the Hop harvest of that year. From here they would then make their way, usually to their small and cramped East London homes, all the healthier from having had some good physical exercise and fresh country air!

Assume the tickets were supplied by Guinness Breweries.

Made using my limited selection of metal and wooden type handset and hand-printed on a 1950’s Vandercook Proofing Press.

George Orwell famously captures the spirit of the time in this piece of his writings here; https://hoppicking.wordpress.com

My great-grandparents on my mum’s side were charcoal burners near Goddern Green-Kent. On researching this piece, it’s entirely plausible that spoils of their efforts were likely put to drying the hops in those rather lovely looking oast houses. Many old oast houses, can still be seen in parts of Kent to this day.