Description: Title card: 'Oppin'. Both the title card and the intertitles throughout the film feature text next to a photograph of a woman in a rural area standing next to a large basket of hops.

Intertitle: 'In September Bermondsey migrates to Kent'. We see trunks being loaded into the back of a lorry and women and children being helped into it before driving off. J and B Groves, Timber Importers and Merchants can be seen in the background. A horse and carriage can also be seen.

(0:57) Lorries and busses loaded with people drive down a country road. Some cyclists including a policeman and two boys racing a lorry. Children and adults in the lorries wave.

(1:29) Intertitles: 'Many families live under very trying conditions.' 'In narrow dark streets and over-crowded houses'. Footage of narrow streets with women and children outside. Children play and women sweep the street.

(1:52) Intertitle: 'And in imagination "Hopping' is looked upon as a glorious open air holiday'. A women and child pick hops. Intertitle: 'The farmer, however, has an anxious time; "hopping" is not his holiday'. Shot of a man in suit and hat. Photo of men and boys hopping along side a rundown of the 'cost per acre'.

(2:53) Footage of the hopfield and of of people, including children, working in it and loading hops into sacks. The sacks are loaded onto a horse and cart ready for drying. View of the field after the hops have been picked.

(4:06) Intertitle: 'The hops are dried and bleached in the oast-house or kiln'. Footage of oast-houses and hops being unloaded into them. A man shovels coal and sulphur for drying and bleaching, under the instruction of the man in the suit and hat.

(4:53) Intertitle: 'The dried hops are pressed into the "pockets". They are conveyed by rail or road to London' Footage of a large sacks (pocket) being moved from a large building, Wood, Hanbury, Rhodes & Jackson Hop Warehouse, in Bermondsey. A man 'samples' a pocket by cutting it open and using specialist tools to cut out a rectangular sample of hops. The sample is cut into a cube and wrapped in paper.

(6:50) Intertitles: 'To the farmer, picking is relatively unimportant'. A breakdown of costs showing picking to be £8 whilst other costs are £160.10. 'And consequently accommodation for the pickers is often primitive'. Footage of wooden huts and children playing outside. Then footage of what looks like a better camp followed by a field which had to be abandoned as a camp because it was under water in bad weather. Two men in suits assess it. TCs: 'The lodgings should be dry and weather proof'. 'Ventilation is essential and curtains are unnecessary'. Footage of the men in suits assessing accommodation.

(8:22) Intertitle: 'Do not have weekend visitors - there is no spare bedroom'. Adults and children stand outside a brick building with 'Ivy Lodge' chalked on it. Then outside another hut. TC: 'Sometimes the only water supply is a pond'. The man in a suit points to the pond. Footage of people standing around as pond water is boiled over an outside fire to make it suitable for consumption. Some camps have a mains tap. Footage of women and children using the taps.

(9:37) Footage of toilet huts. Intertitle: 'In some camps there is a canteen or "universal provider"'. Footage of canteen building with camp residents outside. in other camps 'tradesmen' call - footage of people buying goods from the back of a van. 'If a cookhouse is provided it may be a permanent building or a temporary shed'. Shots of such buildings and of people cooking outside over fires and washing up outside.

(11:05) Intertitle: 'Accidents such as burns and cuts are common. A voluntary hospital service is organised in some areas'. Footage of people being treated by nurses. 'A "hopping" camp is not a suitable place for infants, for whom proper care is impossible'. Footage of babies including one in a box. 'And is no place for invalids'. A women is pushed in a wheelchair. Footage of people having a drink outside the Kent Arms.