December: Land Girls celebrating Christmas!
From left to right, top to bottom: The last but one Christmas party to be held at the WLA hostel, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, December 1948. The hostel closed in around September 1950. The two...
Category: Land Girls and Lumber Jills at Play
November: Land Girls and Lumber Jills Reading
Some Land Girls and Lumber Jill’s spent some of their free time reading, whether it be books, or the latest edition of The Land Girl magazine. Here, the collage shows how women could read...
October: A Night Out and Dancing
From left to right, top to bottom: Land Girls and Lumber Jills, some in uniform, some in mufti, dance with British soldiers at a dance in a large hall, near to their camp in...
September: Clubs and Hostels
From left to right, top to bottom: Members of the Romiley L.A Club made a successful collection when “A Canterbury Tale” was shown at the local cinema. Source: The Land Girl, June 1945, p.14...
August: Sports
Land Girls on the beach ready for a swim. Source: Joan Birchall Photo Archive Sarah Johnson Duncan and friends in Cornwall ready for a kick about. Source: Julia Greenwood Inter-hostel sports competition, Bedfordshire, 6th...
July: Land Girls and Men in Uniform
From left to right, top to bottom: Hope House Land Girls with soldiers. Source: Joan Birchall archive British Land Girls with members of the Women’s Royal Air Force (WAAF) dancing with men of the...
June: Picnics and Fun!
From left to right, top to bottom: Land Girls at the beach. Source: Joan Birchall Photo Archive Wartime picnic, Grace Buckeridge, Ethel Sweenie, ‘Buddy’, Mary Warner and fiancé (?) Scales. Source: Stuart Antrobus Land Girls...
May: Performing!
From left to right, top to bottom: Land Girls entertaining the troops at Thundersley Hostel, Essex. Source: Lorna Cosgrove A get together after a day’s training. Versatile Iris Joyce types, farms and also plays....
April: Meal times with Land Girls and Lumber Jills
From left to right, top to bottom: Lumber Jills enjoying a meal in their hostel in Culford Camp in Suffolk. Source: Margaret Elizabeth Sutherland (nee Coldwell) photo collection. Lumber Jills eagerly awaiting their meals...
March: Land Girls and Lumber Jills on bikes
Bicycles, which were often used as transport from the girls’ accommodation to the farms were vital, once they got to know their way around the country lanes. Having your own (or a WLA bicycle)...