Land Girls at Pluckley
Andrew J Sleep was awarded an MBE for his services at Pluckley Flax Mill in August 1944. Caroline Millan, Andrew’s granddaughter, has been in touch and shared some photos from her family’s collection. These...
Tagged: Kent
WW2 Poem: ‘Today, I gather from the orchard grass’
Today, I gather from the orchard grassApples and Shrapnel – windfalls shaken downWhen angry gusts tempestuously pass. Tonight, above the dark surrounding town,Shellbursts and stars will decorate the skywith dangerous beauty, devastations crown.A lunatic...
Running the WLA: From WLA number to Land Girl
‘At headquarters she was a number’, at the local level… ‘she becomes an individual’. ‘She is no longer W.L.A. No. 657085, she is Betty or Madge’. Vita Sackville-West, ‘Women’s Land Army’, p.15. The transformation...
Drumhead Service, Sunday 23 September, 3.00pm, Kent County Cricket Ground (Spitfire Ground), St Lawrence in Canterbury.
The Office of Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Kent Drumhead Service, Sunday 23 September, 3.00pm, Kent County Cricket Ground (Spitfire Ground), St Lawrence in Canterbury. From 2014 to 2018, nations, communities and individuals of all...
“My Time in the Land Army in Pluckley, Kent” by Mary Snowden (nee Styles)
Many thanks to Pamela Bleazard for sending her mother-in-law’s memories of her time in the Women’s Land Army. At the age of 17 I was driving around the villages of Kent in my own...
May Activity of the Month: Cultivating Apples
From left to right, top to bottom: Land Girl, Miss Winnie Kent, pictured collecting apples. Source: IWM D 10761 Spraying apple orchards at Cockayne Hatley. Source: Stuart Antrobus Land owner Mr. Whitehead shows a...
Miss M.L.McClary WLA Card
The Rev’d Martin Flowerdew I recently found the membership card for Miss M.L.McClary No. 38292 in a secondhand book I purchased. It would be good to reunite it with her [outside chance I admit]...