Searching for Miss D Hawksworth – champion ploughwoman!
Can we trace Miss D Hawksworth mentioned here in ‘The Land Girl’. Any idea on who she worked or who she married? Any help much appreciated!
Tagged: Somerset
October Activity of the Month: Ploughing
From left to right, top to bottom: A member of the Women’s Land Army is trained in the traditional horse-drawn method of ploughing at the WLA training centre at Cannington in Somerset, c 1940....
January Farming Activity of the Month: Milking
As a new initative for 2016, Stuart Antrobus and I will be replacing the ‘Cartoon of the Month’ with ‘Farming Activity of the Month’. We will try to reflect the farming tasks which would...
Video: Yeovil, Somerset: The Flax-Picking Land Girls (WW1)
Yeovil, Somerset: The Flax-Picking Land Girls