“Various shots of Land Girls at doing farm labouring: we see them spraying orchards with insecticide, pruning fruit trees, ploughing, harvesting, cutting hay with machines so it can be used by thatchers, clearing hedgerows...
General Information First Name(s): Kathleen Mary Unmarried Surname: Fawell Date of Birth: 28/7/13 Place of Birth: Sandhutton near Thirsk Years spent in WLA: 5 Pre-war occupation: 3 years physical training 3 years teaching boys school...
While there is a lot of information on hostels run by the WLA, there is much less on hostels run by the YWCA. As one of the purposes of this monthly series is to highlight previously-neglected aspects of the running of the WLA, the YWCA’s involvement seems appropriate to explore.
‘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...
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...
