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1808- 1870s - 1950-1960s - The Future -   Start of UK cultivation The Watercress Line Summer production 200 years on   ONCE UPON A 1850s - 1950s - 1980s -   TIME The spread of watercress New varieties Overseas routes planned   Harvesters picking watercress by hand in the 1960's. Cleaning and sorting the watercress in the 1920's. The Lord Mayor inspecting some fresh watercress in the 1930's. A train on the Watercress Line setting off from Alresford in Hampshire in the 1940's.   Loading the watercress into 1/2 Flats which are willow baskets in the 1900's. Loading a trailer with watercress for delivery to the corner shop, public house or local market stall - 1930's. A group of artesian springs in the early 1920's. This method of transport was used to ferry the watercress from the beds to the distribution barn, 1925.

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