Land girls

Of all the women of World War Two, the Land Girls stand out for the hard work they did on farms in Britain and abroad. WW2 Land Girls working the land so that Britain could eat! Land Girls mattered.

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WWII Bellingham, Land Army Girls (1943) As the prospect of war became increasingly likely, the government wanted to increase the amount of food grown within Britain. In order to grow more food, more help was needed on the farms and so the government started the Women's Land Army in June 1939. The majority of the Land Girls already lived in the countryside but more than a third came from London and the industrial cities of the north of England.

We take a look at The Land Girls, unsung heroes of World War Two, as this year marks the 75 anniversary of the D-Day Landings.

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At Kentwell Hall, Suffolk

Airs Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

A Vintage Nerd, Real Land Girls, WWII Land Girls, The Real Land Girls, Women of World War II

Recently, in an idle moment, I picked up one of the old photograph albums that I had inherited from my parents and flicked through the pages. This photo caught my eye and caused me to stop for a closer look. Once I'd removed the photo from its mounts I saw that the back was stamped "Yorkshire Herald - York" and hand-written in pencil were the words "Land Army Camp. Bubwith. 1945". My curiosity now aroused, I searched for Bubwith on the web. From this I learnt that there had been a Women's…