Women’s Land Army, Sugnall
This photograph was taken at Sugnall and shows Brenda Williams (on the left) who was in the Women’s Land Army from 1947 to 1949. In 1950 she married Robert Fulford and they lived in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire ...
Women’s Land Army, Sugnall
This photograph was taken at Sugnall and shows Brenda Williams (third from left) who was in the Women’s Land Army from 1947 to 1949. In 1950 she married Robert Fulford and they lived in Gainsborough, ...
Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece
Photograph showing the WRENS working on a Hawker Hurricane at HMS Fledgling.
HMS Fledgling.
In April 1943 the Admiralty decided to release more men for wartime service, by training WRENS as aircraft ...
Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece
A group of WRENS at HMS Fledgling E-15, Mill Meece. Mrs Chrys Hill (nee Wood), is sitting in the front row third in from the right.
HMS Fledgling.
In April 1943 the Admiralty decided to release ...
Women's Land Army girl with heifer, Adbaston
Women's Land Army girl, Miss Beryl Collins, standing next to a hand reared British Friesian heifer at Mr Mr T. Rowland Ball's farm at The Wood, Adbaston.
The WLA began during the First World War to ...
Women's Land Army Girl, Eccleshall,
The WLA began during the First World War to help combat food shortages and fill the vacancies left by the men who had entered military service. The women who enrolled had the option of working in agriculture, ...
Women's Land Army girl, Uttoxeter
A studio portrait of a Women's Land Army girl. Please contact us if you can identify her.
Photographer: Gerald McCann of High Street, Uttoxeter.
Women's Land Army girl, Wynterdyne, Tamworth
Miss Joan Jeffrey of the Women's Land Army, a Liberty's model before the war, holding Dairy Shorthorn bull 'Serander' at Winterdyne Farm, Tamworth, Staffordshire. The farm was owned by Mr A.W. Macnamara.
Photographer: ...
Women's Land Army, Rodbaston Farm Institute, Penkridge
Women's Land Army milkers on their way to the dairy at Rodbaston Farm Institute.
Rodbaston College's origins lie in 1919 when the War Agricultural Committee opened an agricultural training depot. ...
Women's Land Army, Walled Garden, Shugborough
A group of Women's Land Army girls photographed at the Walled Garden, Shugborough. Some were working in the Walled Garden while others would have been employed in agricultural work at Shugborough Park ...
Women's Timber Corps workers, Cannock Chase
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 ...
Women's Timber Corps workers, Cannock Chase
Women's Timber Corps forestry workers on Cannock Chase, stripping side shoots and removing lower branches ('snedding') to let air and light into the plantation.
The Women's Timber Corps was set up ...
Women's Timber Corps workers, Cannock Chase
Women's Timber Corps forestry workers on Cannock Chase, weeding young trees at Lady Hill nursery.
The Women's Timber Corps was set up in 1942 to work in forestry, replacing the men who had been called ...
Women's Voluntary Service, Cannock
A group of Women's Voluntary Service members in Cannock. Brenda Corp is first left on the back row.
Workers' Educational Association, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 41 of 'Drake Hall - A War-Time Hostel', a souvenir book produced for staff and residents at the Swynnerton Royal Ordinance Factory hostel at Drake Hall, produced in 1945. Describing the work of the ...
Workers Travel Association, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
From 'Drake Hall - A War-Time Hostel', a souvenir book produced for staff and residents at the Swynnerton Royal Ordinance Factory hostel at Drake Hall, produced in 1945.
Mr E. W. Wimble, Secretary ...
World War II Evacuee's doll
Baby ‘John’ was an evacuee’s doll belonging to a little girl named Sheila.
She was evacuated to the area to escape the bombs at Tilbury Docks. She lived with a family in Blythe Bridge and went to a ...
World War II Police Helmet
Many police during the war were Special Constables, fit and able men in reserved occupation, they were issued with a steel helmet with ‘police’ marked on the front. The helmet was meant to withstand the ...