Stories categorised in 'Land Army'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
We would cycle into Leominster and leave our bikes at the local fire station the fellows would look after...
While scanning the Cathode Ray screens with their brilliant green blips and the circles marking off the...
A toad lived in the wall opposite my back door, and the Post Office had a lovely garden with a lily pond...
With the declaration of war came the 'blackout', and the 'blackout curtains'. All the...
My uniform consisted of cordrouy breeched, strong brown leather shoes, long woollen socks, fawn cotton...
As it came up to the first Christmas in the Land Army the Cluitts offered me a goose to take home for...
No-one seemed to know what we were, even though many girls were conscripted into the Land Army. Those of us...
The last two years of my Land Army days I was transferred to East Sussex and employed by the East Sussex...
On joining I was posted, along with about 30 other Land Girls, to a WLA hostel in Letterston, in...
Often, I would join forces with other Land Girls in Malton and enjoy dancing at the Malton Rooms and other...
OTHER THAN SEEING BATCHES OF LAND GIRLS GOING ABOUT THEIR DUTIES,鈥 SHEP鈥 WALKING HIS FLOCK OF...
A representative from the Land Army called to see me whilst I was mowing thistles with a scythe,. I was...
Most of us, were assigned to a trainee farm run by a Miss Smith and a profoundly deaf young girl called...
But it seems that, despite the ample opportunities for fraternising with men, most of the girls abided by...
One day we were in a big field with no hedges and Jean had the tractor parked, when several of us girls...
I came back home first and then went to Insworth, Gloucestershire, then Weston-Super-Mare, Penarth in Wales...
I lived & worked for nearly two years with the Williams family at Upper House Farm Snodhill, Dorstone,...
One day, one of my school friends came home on leave from the Women's Land Army looking all healthy and...
Our accommodations there were primitive, wooden huts, wood burning stoves, Tilley lamps and army cots with...
At the age of 19 and still working at Crabtrees I had an accident with a piece of unguarded machinery and...
I went in the Land Army when I was 17 and was sent to Kent,. When I was first told where I...
In 1940 I lived in Bromborough, near Port Sunlight, and I commuted to work through the Mersey Tunnel to...
Doodle-bugs and tin hats Soon after the flying bombs started they were nicknamed doodle-bugs. They were...
One dark beige knee length wool overcoat Beige felt hat with badge Beige vortex working shirts One light...
We were employed by Sir Roland Hodge in Surrey for a period on his farm and with his great kindness invited...
I was working on the land, casual work 鈥 hoeing, picking peas, gathering potatoes by hand - in all...