Description: Opens with an old black and white photo of a woman in a rural area standing next to a large basket of hops.

'In September Bermondsey migrates to Kent'.Silent black and white footage of trunks being loaded into the back of a lorry and women and children being helped into it before driving off. J and B Groves, Timber Importers and Merchants can be seen in the background. A horse an carriage can also be seen.

57" Lorries and busses loaded with people drive down a country road. Some cyclists including a policeman and two boys racing a lorry. Children and adults in the lorries wave.

1'29" 'Many families live under very trying conditions'. 'In narrow dark streets and over-crowded houses'. Footage of narrow streets with women and children outside. Children play and women sweep the street.

1'52" 'And in imagination "Hopping' is looked upon as a glorious open air holiday'. A women and child pick hops. 'The farmer, however, has an anxious time; "hopping" is not his holiday'. Shot of a man in suit and hat. Photo of men and boys hopping along side a rundown of the 'cost per acre'.

2'53 Footage of the hopfield and of of people, including children, working in it and loading hops into sacks. The sacks are loaded onto a horse and cart ready for drying. View of the field after the hops have been picked.

4'06" 'The hops are dried and bleached in the oast-house or kiln'. Footage of oast-houses and hops being unloaded into them. A man shovels coal and sulphur for drying and bleaching, under the instruction of the man in the suit and hat.

4'53" 'The dried hops are pressed into the "pockets". They are conveyed by rail or road to London' Footage of a large sacks (pocket) being moved from a large building, Wood, Hanbury, Rhodes & Jackson Hop Warehouse, in Bermondsey. A man 'samples' a pocket by cutting it open and using specialist tools to cut out a rectangular sample of hops. The sample is cut into a cube and wrapped in paper.

6'50" 'To the farmer, picking is relatively unimportant'. A breakdown of costs showing picking to be £8 whilst other costs are £160.10. 'And consequently accommodation for the pickers is often primative'. Footage of wooden huts and children playing outside. Then footage of what looks like a better camp followed by a field which had to be abandoned as a camp because it was under water in bad weather. Two men in suits assess it. 'The lodgings should be dry and weather proof'. 'Ventilation is essential and curtains are unnecessary'. Footage of the men in suits assessing accommodation.

8'22" 'Do not have weekend visitors - there is no spare bedroom'. Adults and children stand outside a brick building with 'Ivy Lodge' chalked on it. Then outside another hut. 'Sometimes the only water supply is a pond'. The man in a suit points to the pond. Footage of people standing around as pond water is boiled over an outside fire to make it suitable for consumption. Some camps have a mains tap. Footage of women and children using the taps.

9'37" Footage of primitive toilet huts. 'In some camps there is a canteen or "universal provider"'. Footage of canteen building with camp residents outside. in other camps 'tradesmen' call - footage of people buying goods from the back of a van. 'If a cookhouse is provided it may be a permanent building or a temporary shed'. Shots of such buildings and of people cooking outside over fires and washing up outside.

11'05" 'Accidents such as burns and cuts are common. A voluntary hospital service is organised in some areas'. Footage of people being treated by nurses. 'A "hopping" camp is not a suitable place for infants, for whom proper care is impossible'. Footage of babies including one in a box. 'And is no place for invalids'. A women is pushed in a wheelchair. Footage of people having a drink outside the Kent Arms.