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Started by: joani (10)
I remember going pea picking in Parbold and burscough we used to go on the train from wallgate then the farmers would pick us up in trucks and take us to the field that was to be picked this was our annual holiday for many of us I loved it you used to get two shillings and six pence per hamper of peas or (twelve and a half pence) and sometimes we might get a cauli that we had nicked out of one of the fields thier was a big Irish man worked on the farm his name was Martin oh what memories these kids dont know there born my mam worked all year then in the summer we did this
Replied: 13th Feb 2009 at 23:19