June Activity of the Month: Haymaking

From left to right, top to bottom:

• Iris Joyce learns to drive the hay making chariot. Source: D8805, Northamptonshire Record Office

• Peggy Richardson (left) and Barbara Newell (right) pitching hay to Phyllis (?) on the cart on Luton Hoo estate c.1940s. Source Stuart Antrobus.

• Land Girls hay bundling in the Second World War. Source: Home Sweet Homefront

• Haymaking in the Second World War. Source: Dailypost

• Member of the Women’s Forage Corps feeding a hay baler in the First World War. Source: IWM, Q 30688 (bottom right photo)

Other activities included:

• Sheep shearing
• Routine sheep work
• Silaging

Source: Farm Direct.co.uk