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Bedfordshire

Land Girls haymaking Source: Courtesy of Stuart Antrobus.

WW2 Land Girls

Land Girl reminiscence: “In the summer evenings during my Land Army days I helped with hay-making and harvest.”

June Haymaking Collage

Farming Activity of the Month

June Activity of the Month: Haymaking

May Day Queen, 1945, Myra Griffiths, in Bedfordshire Courtesy of Stuart Antrobus.

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Happy May Bank Holiday!

Women's Land Army May Collage

Farming Activity of the Month

May Activity of the Month: Cultivating Apples

Bedfordshire land girls march past Princess Elizabeth down Bedford High Street on 14 February 1946 in a Victory parade

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Happy 90th Birthday to HRH Queen Elizabeth II

An extract from The Land Girl on rat catching. Courtesy of Stuart Antrobus

Rat Catching / WW2 Land Girls

Land Girl reminiscence: “12 of us were sent to Warminster on a fortnight’s rat-catching training session.”

April Collage Spreading Manure

Farming Activity of the Month

April Activity of the Month: Spreading Manure

Unknown Land Girl and sheep

WW2 Land Girls

Land Girl reminiscence: “The blizzards of 1941 were sudden and fierce…”

Lambing Women's Land Army

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March Activity of the Month: Lambing

Unknown Land Girl on a tractor.

WW2 Land Girls

Land Girl reminiscence: “We, a band of jolly land girls” Poem

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