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WLA Doll featured on BBC’s Repair Shop

Falling in love with a Land Girl

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Falling in love with a Land Girl

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Recalling life in the Women’s Land Army at East Peckham

Smallwood Women’s Land Army hostel, which has been given Grade II listed status. Photograph- Alun Bull:Historic England Archive, Alun Bull

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Land Girl hostel given listed status to mark women’s war work

Zeita on BBC Breakfast

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BBC Breakfast WLA Coverage, 24.2.20

Members of the WLA help a farmer to plough reclaimed fenland in Cambridgeshire. The deep digger plough and International tractor being used are ploughing 15 inches deep. Source: IWM D 8455

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“How efficiently they do their work”: responses to the MOI Land Girl Film (April 1942)

Courtesy of the British Legion: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/how-we-remember/the-story-of-the-poppy/

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They shall grow not old

Zeita Trott, aged 17, in her new land girl uniform in the summer of 1942 when she joined the Women's Land Army [WLA] in Bedfordshire. She was based at Bolnhurst hostel in the north of the county and travelled out in mobile gangs each day to work on local farms. She left on medical grounds in 1945 after injury at work. She later married and became Mrs Holes.

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Land Girl Zeita Holes featured on BBC Countryfile, 19th July 2019

The Girl With the Tractor

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The ‘Picture Post’ cover girl who won Dutch soldier’s heart

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The Women’s Land Army: Formed 80 Years Ago Today

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