Running the WLA: and the WTC too
So far, this monthly series of posts has focused on how the Women’s Land Army (WLA) was run at both national and local levels. As we move towards the end of the series, it...
Category: Women’s Timber Corps
WW2 Photo: Lumber Jills leaving bath hut
Coming out of the bath hut. Girls have a hot bath every day after work. c. 1940s. Caption: “At the Women’s Land Army training camp, Culford, Suffolk, run by the Ministry fo Supply, from...
Lumberjills
When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber – but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was critical to the war effort: it was needed for...
The Land Girl Covers: November
This month’s front cover of The Land Girl was drawn by J.M.Thomas. The November 1946 edition of The Land Girl shows a member of the Women’s Land Army laying a hedge. Laying a hedge...
Joy Smith
Joy Smith (30.10.1923) became a Lumber Jill in February 1943. Joy joined the Women’s Timber Corps and began her training at Culford Camp. She then worked in Wooton-u-Edge in Gloucestershire. Joy’s son-in-law Robin Daly...