Lilies on the Land, Bedford, 10th-14th September 2019
Caption: The cast of ‘Lilies on the Land’, the play about WW2 land girls, try out a wartime American GI jeep at Thurleigh airfield museum. They are (l to r) : Tracey Powell (‘Vera’), Emily Alleyne (‘Peggy’), Scarlett Ash ‘Poppy’ & Hannah Millard (‘Margie’). With them was a real former Land Girl, Zeita Holes nee Trott, who served from 1942 to 1945 at Bolnhurst hostel in north Bedfordshire. She recently appeared on BBC 1 TV’s ‘Countryfile’ programme.