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I joined the Womans Land Army on 16th August
l943,just 18 and was sent to a new hostel
on the Lord Newborough estate. Ten of us went from the Midlands. It was the first time most of us had been away from home.I had only been for a day trip to Rhyl,so the
journey was wonderful.
We arrived in Caernarvon and we were met by an open lorry.They took us to the beautiful estate by the sea.The hostel was in the stables where the groom used to stay with the horses. Bats used to fly up the corridor and mice everywhere untill they got a cat. The warden who met us when we got there is still alive at 95,i see her each year.
I met my husband there,he was in the RAF but came on leave.His home was near the estate. I went to Hull to learn to drive an excavator for land drainage.My memories of Hull are nights spent in a shelter as Hull was badly bombed.
I spent a year in the Conway Valley on land drainage.My last year i spent on a Farm in Cornwall,i really liked that although hard work. Some days in the summer we started at 6am until 11pm at night to get the harvest in. When i left in 1947 my pay was 拢1.25 and my keep. I had good food though.
I have many happy days of my WLA time,hard work but we were young and able to do it.Made many friends who i still keep in touch with,some are no longer here.

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