Bedfordshire Hostels
Potton
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Bedfordshire Hostels
| Location: |
The Hollies, 12 King Street, Potton. OS Ref: TL22424930 |
| Description: | 18th century town house, accommodating up to 20 Land Girls. |
| Opened: | c. January 1943 |
| Closed: | c. August 1948 |
Potton hostel |
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More information about this hostel
- Mrs. Stone was the first Warden of the Hostel. Nine of the first Land Girls came from Lincoln.
- In December 1944 The Land Girl magazine noted that the Potton Hostel had been commended for the potato picking done that season.
- By February 1946, the Warden was a Mrs. Kirton (plus a Mrs (?) Surtees assistant warden?)
- Audrey Favour, an ex-Forewoman at Potton Hostel, who had married an American soldier she had met locally, returned in 1948 to revisit the hostel land girls she had known.
Land girls in the recreation room at The Holt, Potton
Location of Potton hostel
OS 6" map Bedfordshire sheet XVIII NE (with additions in 1947/48)
More Pictures of Potton Land Girls
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Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author
Page last updated: 6th May 2015