As soon as they arrived, a group of white and Native American hop-pickers threatened them and ordered them to leave the area.
Come dressed as hop-pickers of the 40s or 50s (simple accessories such as scarves, cloth caps or aprons fit the bill).
It must be discouraging to the hop-pickers of Kent to have to creep now and again into the shelters while the hops settle in the baskets, and history settles in the saddle.
Jane is particularly proud of the images produced from these assignments – hop pickers, men and women at a holiday camp, children at a swimming pool and festival-goers at Glastonbury.
B&B accommodation is in two bright bedrooms in the old farmhouse, or you can rent the converted Hop Pickers' House or the cosy Hen House, each with a bedroom, living area and kitchen.
They include sun-scorched hop pickers and haymakers, the breath of animals steaming in frosty morning fields, and a poacher, face turned carefully away from the camera, bicycle hidden in a clump of bushes, going about his furtive work.
Bown was moved by children as subjects, whether they were hanging round the hop-pickers' encampments, or struggling with sums on the school blackboard, but unlike many other women photographers, though she filled family albums to commemorate the usual family events, she almost never used her own children as subjects in her serious work.
They also like to bring the conversation round to how Labour gains from high benefits and high immigration (immigration of burger flippers or hop pickers, that is, not immigration of spin doctors or bank governors) because both create a demographic that is more likely to vote for it.
During the early 1950s, well over 4,000 hop-pickers and some 23,000 visitors travelled in 56 "Hopper specials" – extra services laid on during the late August – early October hop season; at the busiest period, up to six trains per day ran through to the branch from London.
