by Andrew Gill | Aug 27, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
This delightful hand-coloured photograph dates from the 1880s and shows children picking hops in Kent. Hops are, of course, used to make beer and picking them was a very labour-intensive process. Up to 40,000 people, including whole families, would migrate from London... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 25, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
For Victorians, oysters were cheap street food, the equivalent of burgers today. At some point in time, they moved up a class or two and became a rare (and expensive) delicacy. Whitstable, on the north Kent coast, has long been famous for its oysters and, indeed, has... 