Looking for information on Battina House
My mother used to be a land army girl at Battina House, which I believe was in the Chichester or Brighton area. She passed away a couple of weeks ago. I was wondering if...
Tagged: Sussex
WW2 Proficiency Distinction Certificate for Milking and Dairy Work
WLA Proficiency Certificate for B Cox, marking her excellent work in milking and dairy work, March 1945. Source: Catherine Procter’s WLA Collection
April: Meal times with Land Girls and Lumber Jills
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...
February: Land Girls and Lumber Jills in the snow
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...
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...
WW2 Video: Early One Morning
Sunset across fields. Land army girl, mobile milk maid, Daphne Perry riding bicycle through countryside. She gets off and pushes bike across muddy field. Several shots of Daphne milking cows by machinery. Daphne weighs...
WW1 Newspaper Article on WLA in Sussex
The East Grinstead Observer (17th June, 1916). At St. Michael’s Parish Hall, Miss Bradley, agricultural organising officer for the Board of Trade, said that Sussex had been one of the best countries for recruiting for...