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Enjoying a quiet spot on a bench under the trees in the garden of the rest break house in Torquay are (left to right) Mrs Eivemark (the forewoman of a WLA hostel), Miss Mary Pakes, Miss Ann Royne (WLA gang work forewoman) and Mrs Joan Hart (timber corps crane driver). Mrs Eivemark and Miss Pakes are chatting whilst Miss Royne and Miss Hart are reading a book together.
Enjoying a quiet spot on a bench under the trees in the garden of the rest break house in Torquay are (left to right) Mrs Eivemark (the forewoman of a WLA hostel), Miss Mary Pakes, Miss Ann Royne (WLA gang work forewoman) and Mrs Joan Hart (timber corps crane driver). Mrs Eivemark and Miss Pakes are chatting whilst Miss Royne and Miss Hart are reading a book together. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205200981
my mother is the one tucking into a sandwich or something, being fed by 'Aunty Eileen'.
Moving logs. Gladys is in the top left hand corner with 'Aunty Eileen' helping her. 'Aunty Rene' is one of the last pair of log handlers, to the left.
Using the cross-cut saw. Spenny and another woman.
Joy's father, Hilda, Marjorie, and Joy's mother outside "The Homestead", London, 1943.
Spenny and two other women.
A photo from the collection of Joy Smith.
Spenny felling a tree.
Lumber Jills (aka members of the Women's Timber Corps) at Culford Camp. Margaret Elizabeth Sutherland (nee Coldwell) at Culford Camp, Suffolk

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