SAVAGE FAMILY HOLIDAY c1920'S
Hop picking in Kent
By Brian Urry
Every year my grandparents, who lived in Denton, packed up and went down to the hop fields in Kent for a working holiday. From this photograph it looks like they had a good time!
Grandad Savage is the chap in the bin, and the lady in the hat to the right is my grandmother Savage. The baby in arms is my mother.
How they got to Kent I don't know but knowing my grandfather they probably walked!! I should add that my grandmother was a Romany and had three children from a previous marriage ( George; Mary and Rose ) before she married my grandfather. My mother was the only child from that marriage. George is the boy in the hat on the right front of the picture. The second picture is of my mother at Newhaven beach. The third picture is of Granny Savage with daughter Mary taken about 81 years ago.
Family Holiday
Brian Urry