My mother used to be a land army girl at Battina House, which I believe was in the Chichester or Brighton area. She passed away a couple of weeks ago. I was wondering if you could put a request on your website for any information about Bettina House or who might have known my mother? […]
This photograph album, kindly shared by Catherine Procter, charts the journey of Land Girls in Retford, Nottinghamshire. Alongside photographs of women out on the farm, the album also includes postcards from a visit to Brighton, where they went for a break away from tiring farm work. The album shows women also enjoying a visit to […]
This series of posts charts Dorothy Clayden’s time in the Women’s Land Army form 1942 to 1946. This fourth looks at Dorothy’s transfer to Pest Destruction in Shrewsbury in 1944. Here, she was issued with extensive advice on rat catching and the different protocols which could be followed. Be sure to scroll to the end […]
This series of posts charts Dorothy Clayden’s time in the Women’s Land Army form 1942 to 1946. This third looks at Dorothy’s first billet in Shropshire. We don’t have as many documents on this stage of Dorothy’s journey. However, we do know that Dorothy lived with a couple called Kit and Eva in Shropshire in […]
‘Swinging across the farrowed British countryside is an army of over forty thousand women. This is the Women’s Land Army whose members are drawn from every walk of life, from shop and beauty parlour, from domestic work and art school. Many of these have now completed these years work on the land and would not […]
The ladies in the picture are: Lena Killpatrick (my mother from Glasgow) Nan Thompson Elgin Joan Bissit (Glasgow) Mary Cullen (Glasgow) Getta M’canns (up north) Jean Sanderson (Edinburgh) Irene (Glasgow) Jackie (Aberdeen) Betty Cullen (Glasgow) Rena M’Neal Tollcross (Glasgow) Miss Munro the Matron Molly Lawrence (Glasgow) Celia Fulton (Glasgow) The address where they […]
Explore the photo… How many women are there in one room? What are they all doing? What clothes are they wearing? What does their body language reveal?