Cherry picking (1916)

Post date: Apr 07, 2016 1:35:10 PM

Advert in South Eastern Gazette on 1st July 1916 (day of Somme Offensive)

WANTED Cherry Pickers, Ladder Movers, and

Packers; good wages; good conveyance from

Maidstone to Wateringbury : work at once- — D. Larkin,

Orchard, Wateringbury.

Advert in Kent Messenger of 8th July 1916:

TO FRUIT GROWERS AND OTHERS.

WATERINGBURY, WEST MALLING AND

PADDOCK WOOD.

MESSRS. LANGRIDGE & FREEMAN

WILL SELL by AUCTION, at the King’s Head Hotel, Wateringbury, on WEDNESDAY

JULY 26th,1916; at the Swan Hotel, West Malling,on WEDNESDAY,AUGUST 2nd,

1916; and at the Railway Hotel, Paddock Wood, on FRIDAY, AUGUST 4th, 1916,

GROWING CROPS OF HARD FRUIT,

Including Apples, Pears, Plums, Damsons,CobNuts, etc.

Growers wishing to include any portion of their Crops should, as early as possible, forward particulars, to the Auctioneers’ Offices,

Tunbridge Wells, and 23, Queen Street, E.C.

Advert in Kent Messenger 22nd July 1916

ABOUT three acres Drumhead Cabbage for sale- — For price and particulars apply Owen English, Wateringbury.