English ‘land girls’ of the Women’s Land Army in Bedfordshire planning a campaign to combat the infestation of crops by Colorado beetles in 1948. The majority of women who had undertaken agricultural national service on Great Britain’s farms during the war were demobilised at the end of the conflict in 1945 but many continued to be paid volunteers on farms because of the continued need for their labour until the scheme ended on 30 November 1950.
Source: Stuart Antrobus. Courtesy of Bedfordshire Times, England.