Women farm workers on the Sandringham Estate
Before the formation of the Women’s Land Army, the Misses Hobson and their cousin Miss Maxfield were recruited in 1916 to work on the Sandringham Estate. They were related to my late wife. In November 1916 there was a great deal of press interest and a newsreel of them in action – no doubt all of this to encourage other girls to do their bit for the war effort by working on the land.
Michael Osborn
Photographs of women farm workers on the Sandringham Estate in 1916
Feature on women farm workers in Country Life, published on 11th November 1916.
Woman manageress of royal diary, published in the Penrith Observer in 1924.
