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Bedfordshire

Land girls staying at St Elmo's WLA Rest House, Torquay, go swimming during their paid holiday. Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum.

Running the WLA

Running the WLA: Rest Break Houses

Women on the Land Radio Programme Extract

Running the WLA

Running the WLA: Raising the Profile

the dining room in use at Milton Ernest hutment hostel, Bedfordshire

Running the WLA

Running the WLA: YWCA Hostels

GI bride Eva Marriot marries Houston Johnson in Bedford in 1943.

Photos (WW2) / WW2 Land Girls

Land Girl GI Brides

Moving logs. Gladys is in the top left hand corner with 'Aunty Eileen' helping her. 'Aunty Rene' is one of the last pair of log handlers, to the left.

Photos (WW2) / WW2 Land Girls

Gladys Louise West: A Land Girl working in the forests

Celebrating Christmas WLA Collage December

Christmas / Land Girls and Lumber Jills at Play

December: Land Girls celebrating Christmas!

Caption: Ann Brodrick (left) with British serviceman and Mary Codrington with an American serviceman at a Halloween party c.1943 in Milton Ernest WLA hutment hostel, Bedfordshire.

Photos (WW2)

Happy Halloween!

Nights Out and Dancing Collage

Land Girls and Lumber Jills at Play

October: A Night Out and Dancing

August Sports Collage

Land Girls and Lumber Jills at Play

August: Sports

Land Girls and Men in Uniform

Land Girls and Lumber Jills at Play

July: Land Girls and Men in Uniform

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