May: Performing!

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Performing

From left to right, top to bottom:

  • Land Girls entertaining the troops at Thundersley Hostel, Essex. Source: Lorna Cosgrove
  • A get together after a day’s training. Versatile Iris Joyce types, farms and also plays. Source: Northamptonshire Records Office
  • Women’s Land Army in Retford in 1949. Source: Catherine Procter
  • One Saturday afternoon Ipswich Hope House in 1943. Source: Kara Lynn
  • Lady Godiva played by Brenda Collinge, Hulcote Moors Hostel, Bedfordshire. Published in the Bedfordshire Times on 1st June 1945, p6. Source: Stuart Antrobus

April: Meal times with Land Girls and Lumber Jills

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Meal Times Women's Land Army

From left to right, top to bottom:

  • Lumber Jills enjoying a meal in their hostel in Culford Camp in Suffolk. Source: Margaret Elizabeth Sutherland (nee Coldwell) photo collection.
  • Lumber Jills eagerly awaiting their meals at their hostel in Culford Camp in Suffolk. Source: Margaret Elizabeth Sutherland (nee Coldwell) photo collection.
  • Land Girls billeted at a hostel in Wye, taking a break. Phyllis Ridpath is the lady second from the left, and the two ladies on the right hand side are twin sisters Peggy C. Robinson (later Dalglish) and Joan A. Robinson (later Wilson). Source: Hastingleigh.com
  • Land Girls enjoy a hot cup of tea after a hard day of rat catching on a Sussex farm during 1942. Source: IWM
  • Land Girls sharing their lunch break with a spaniel during on a farm in Sevenoaks, Kent in 1942. Source: Pinterest
  • Three Women’s Land Army trainees enjoy a ‘mite’ of milk before their day of training begins at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture. It is 6 o’clock in the morning. Source: IWM

February: Land Girls and Lumber Jills in the snow

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Thank you to all those that have shared photos for the monthly collages. We look forward to sharing them throughout the year. This month focuses on the snow, just one of many weathers which Land Girls and Lumber Jills had to work in!

Land Girls and Lumber Jills Snow Collage

From left to right, top to bottom:

  • Women land-workers enjoying snowfall in a farmyard (handwritten caption on rear reads, ‘Spring fashions and Spring weather’) near Basingstoke area, c.1917. Source: Hampshire Archives
  • A Land Girl in Sussex sitting on top of her Hitler snowman during the Second World War. 14th January 1942. Source: Getty Images
  • Land Girls clearing snow in 1947 near Woodford Halse. Source: Connie Tomalin
  • Josie [?] and Vicky Richards having fun in the snow at ‘Chimney Corner’ WLA hostel near Bedford (between Elstow and Houghton Conquest). Source: Stuart Antrobus
  • Grinding the axe for the day’s felling. Source: ‘Meet the Members’
  • 1. Joyce Barker Bradford, 2 Alice ? 3 betty Knight Huddersfield 4 Doris Harrisdence Halifax, 5 Elsie Thompson Hull, 6 Anne thompson Hull, 7 Eileen Gibson Hull enjoying the snow. Source: Joan Lynn (nee Birchall) photo collection.

June Activity of the Month: Haymaking

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June Haymaking Collage

From left to right, top to bottom:

  • Haymaking in the Second World War. Source: Dailypost
  • Member of the Women’s Forage Corps feeding a hay baler in the First World War. Source: IWM, Q 30688 (bottom right photo)

Other activities included:

  • Sheep shearing
  • Routine sheep work
  • Silaging

Source: Farm Direct.co.uk

WW2 Photo Gallery: A photographic journey of joining the WLA

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These photographs are from an un-catalogued collection at Northamptonshire Record Office. All relate to Moulton College, formerly the Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture. This selection appear to have been taken by the Ministry of Information. Several appear in Vita Sackvillle-West’s book and are marked as crown copyright. Most of the photos have the same annotation:-

“The Women’s Land Army has developed out of all recognition, every day fresh recruits report for training, typists, shop assistants, clerks change their identity overnight’ with a additional note specific to each picture.

A few pictures without annotation seem to relate to a Pathe news film of a visit to inspect the Girls by HRH the Duchess of Gloucester who lived in the county

Several appear to document the career at the Institute of one girl Iris Joyce.

 

 

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