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From: "ELIZABETH YOULL" <>
Subject: Re: Wells, Hops and Morris-men
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:48:44 +0100


Hi Carol Ann,

.


You wrote:-
> These days also, the farmers have to provide accommodation for the
soft
> fruit workers, as they are not usually local.

I am just wondering, has this come full circle?
I am sure that I have read about the fruit pickers of the 1800s
travelling and working in gangs and being given accommodation by
the farmers. I felt they must have lived a terrible life tramping
from
place to place doing back-breaking work and no place to call home.

Elizabeth,
Preston, Lancashire.

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