Running the WLA: Rest Break Houses
In June 1944, the WLA in England and Wales set up two Rest Break Houses. Selected Land Girls enjoyed recuperation through paid holidays at a seaside resort after either long service or illness brought...
Tagged: Devon
‘The Land Girl’ Covers: April
Here we have three very different types of illustration, featured on the front page of The Land Girl for its April issues. All of them show the figure of a Land Girl, though they take...
Women’s Forestry Corps, North Devon, WW1
Devon was one of the first counties in England to form a Women’s Land Army and Miss Calmady-Hamlyn, from an old Devon family who owned an estate on the edge of Dartmoor, was appointed...
November: Land Girls and Lumber Jills Reading
Some Land Girls and Lumber Jill’s spent some of their free time reading, whether it be books, or the latest edition of The Land Girl magazine. Here, the collage shows how women could read...
International Women’s Day: WW1 WLA Inspector Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn
Discussions at the February meeting of the Devon First World War Food and Farming Group began with a look at the part women played in farming during the war. One of the key figures...
WW1 Article: Sowing The Seeds of Patriotism? The Women’s Land Army in Devon 1916-1918
Article originally published in The Local Historian, Volume 41, Number 1 – February 2011 Please see below the abstract published on the British Association for Local History’s website:- Bonnie White, ‘Sowing the seeds of...
WW2 Photos: Betty Bond (nee Hewitt)
My mother was called Betty (nee) Hewitt and she was stationed for most of her service in Herefordshire. Helen Van Dongen Helen has kindly donated her mother’s copies of ‘The Land Girl’ magazine (from...