Women's Timber Corps workers, Cannock Chase

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Date:1942 - 1946 (c.)

Description:Women's Timber Corps forestry workers on Cannock Chase, transplanting young trees.

The Women's Timber Corps was set up in 1942 to work in forestry, replacing the men who had been called up to the armed services during World War II. They were known as 'Lumber Jills' and many were recruited from the Women's Land Army. After four to six weeks' training they would be billeted around the country. The work was hard and included all the jobs involved with forestry including weeding, snedding (stripping side shoots), loading, measuring, felling, driving tractors and trucks, working with horses and operating sawmills. The WTC was disbanded in 1946.

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Donor ref:P82.020.0001 (37/30014)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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