Picture by Roger Bamber:3 April 1998:David Leipuik Englands sole surviving Hop stringer to use stilts, towers above the hop garden at the Museum of Kent Life at Cobtree, near Maidstone, Kent as he prepares for a crop of Fuggles Old English, which will be picked for a beer festival in six months. He uses 8,000ft. of coconut fibre to string the garden.