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WLA Club, Bedford
Can you identify individuals around the pool table (left to right) at the Bedford WLA club, November 1941. Florence Brasier is 9th from the left, with a hat on and her arm insignia clearly visible.
Reception at the Swan Hotel - 1st June 1940
A reception at the Swan Hotel, Bedford, for land girls who had been busy recruiting during the day, 1st June 1940. Can you recognise individuals?
Aspley Guise
Land Girls relaxing in the recreation room: Aspley Guise Hostel
(l-r) Doreen Wright,
Doris ?, Frances
Guttridge,
Peggy 'Tich'
Kennedy, Mavis Tickle ?,
Joan Mack, Dorothy
'Dot' ? and
Joan Taylor
Bolnhurst
Bolnhurst Land Girls sitting in a field
'Fiss', Vera
Jobling, Peggy Deag,
Beatrice 'Betty' ?, Elsie ?
"Chimney Corner"
Margaret Conlin (3rd from the right) and Margaret Scaife (3rd from the left?)
Clifton
Cople
Cople House hostel land girls.
Front row:
2nd from left: Betty Wallace?; 3rd from left:
Dorothy Meggitt.
Second row from front: extreme left:
Doreen Kay
Hulcote Moors
Hulcote Moors hostel group with the Warden, Mrs Whatling, 1943
Back Row (l-r) Pamela Bell, Betty Hurst (?), Thelma Mathers,
Vera Hull, Alice Braybrook, Myra Griffiths
Middle Row (l-r) Peggy Clark, Doris Bass, Edna Harris,
Gladys Hinton (Housekeeper), Mrs E Watling (Warden), Joyce Virgin, Hilda Virgin
Front Row (l-r) ?, Zoe Odell, Audrey Hinde, Marjorie Prince, ?
Kensworth
Leighton Buzzard
First intake of land girls heading for
Leighton Buzzard Hostel - 4th May 1942.
Joyce How is 2nd from left and
Ellen May Godfrey is 3rd from right.
Photo courtesy of Luton News
Luton Hoo
Luton Hoo land girls in front of the conservatory in the
walled garden, c1944.
Joyce Collard is 2nd from
the left in the back row and
Kathleen Burgoyne is 2nd from the right in the front row.
Milton Ernest
Potton
In the entrance to The Hollies, the WLA Hostel in King Street, Potton.
The two girls marked x were sisters Winnie and Elsie- Do you know their surname?
Front right - Phyllis 'Betty' Laverick (with hair in curlers)
Ravensden
Margaret Perry (far right) with trainee land girls setting off for local fields to learn arable crop skills.
Sharnbrook
Sandy
Post war land girls at Hasells Hall
Silsoe
Silsoe land girls in the High Street
Toddington
Doris Lane is 3rd from the left (above Toddington Park WLA sign). She stayed on to do milking after the war.
Whipsnade
'Farm Sunday' Parade, Wardown Park,Luton, June 1943
(l-r) Mary Hickey (x)
and Daisy Beard, Forewoman,
leading the parade.
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Page last updated: 17th November 2014