The lavender harvest. From photographs taken at Mitcham, Surrey, during the latter part of August.
Source: The Sketch – Wednesday 10 September 1902 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)
Cutters at work. This lavender is growing on four-year-old roots.
In the track of the reapers
Collecting and placing the lavender in mats
Pegging up the mats full of lavender
Carrying the mats of lavender to the waggon
Loading the waggon with lavender for the distillery, where the essential oil is extracted
Mitcham History Notes 
Nice to see the photos of the Lavender Cutters at work. Pity the locations of these lavender fields were not mentioned. Presumably they might have been around Lavender Avenue or is that just a red herring.
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the original newspaper article just said “from photographs taken at Mitcham”, but bear in mind Mitcham covered a wider area then, more than just the ‘CR4’ it is thought of today! The ‘Pegging up the mats’ photo looks a bit too hilly to be Lavender Avenue area.
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