Happy Mothering Sunday
Woman Carries On. ‘The first batch of recruits to the Women’s Land Army successfully completed their training at the Preston school and are now working on farms in Lancashire. A fresh batch of recruits...
Category: Photos (WW2)
International Women’s Day 2020: Mary Linda Ashbolt (née Haynes) WLA Scrapbook
Mary Linda Ashbolt (née Haynes) was an active member of the Essex Women’s Land Army during the Second World War. Aged 18, Mary joined the WLA in 1943 and worked on a fruit farm...
WW2 Photo: Her first day out with the plough
Source: Catherine Procter Collection ‘Her first day out with the plough’ September 1939. Photograph by John Topham.
WW2 Photos: Girls Know Their Potatoes
Source: Catherine Procter Collection ‘These hardy members of the Britain’s Women’s Land Army sort potatoes under the watchful eyes of farmers during a recent demonstration of their skill. The girls demonstrated every phase of...
WW2 Photo: Land Girls threshing in Kent
Source: Catherine Procter Collection ‘These English Land Army Girls are running and old fashioned steam engine for the threshing on a farm in Kent. There are more than 25,000 girls in Britain’s Land Army...
WW2 Photo: Merrily we roll along…
Land Girls cycling: ‘merrily we roll along’, 21st October 1942. This photograph was distributed to the New York Bureau to share the work of the British WLA across the Atlantic. Source: Catherine Procter Collection...
WW2 Photo: We are the girls that kill the rats
Source: Catherine Procter Collection Land Girls on a rat catcher float, 29th October 1945. This photograph was distributed to the New York Bureau to share the work of the British WLA across the Atlantic....
WW2 Photo: Queen talking to Land Girl at Harvest Thanksgiving, November 1948
The Queen chatting to a member of the Women’s Land Army Guard of Honour after the Harvest Thanksgiving Service at Westminster Abbey on 30th November 1948. H.R.H Princess Margaret is seen on the left....
WW2 Photo: Britain’s Land Girls make first appearance in London
Britain’s Land Girls make a first appearance in London, c.1940s.Source: Catherine Procter Collection. Members of the newly-organised Women’s Land Army, who will work Britain’s farms in the event of the war, are shown as...
WW2 Photo: Lumber Jills leaving bath hut
Coming out of the bath hut. Girls have a hot bath every day after work. c. 1940s. Source: Catherine Procter Collection Caption: “At the Women’s Land Army training camp, Culford, Suffolk, run by the...