Hop pickers use stilts on a farm at Wateringbury in Kent. Image: Crouch/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The flowers of the hop plant have been used in the brewing of beer for ...

IT was a case of “Hi-gh there” when a hop-picker on stilts demonstrated his trade to the Duchess of ­Cornwall at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show yesterday.

You’d agree, we are sure, that few things in life are better than fairytales, magic and travellers’ tales. Today, the Berlin-based experimental theatre company, Grotest Maru, will bring them ...

Ann Carver, 70, from Cradley, started filming as a child on her father's hop farm at Burghill in Herefordshire. "It's part of Herefordshire life - hop-picking is very much a Herefordshire thing ...

In fact, stilts have a long, proud history of weirdness that continues today. ... Getty Images Most people ... Working on Stilts. Hop pickers, fruit pickers, ...

A Herefordshire hop festival will feature a film of the county's last hop-pickers by hand, filmed by a local woman. ... Image caption, Ann Carver recorded the footage in the 1950s and 1970s.