Juni - schlepperKALENDER 2012
Claus Rose Photography
Juni - schlepperKALENDER 2012
Claus Rose Photography
Mary Evans/Robert Hunt Collection Picture No 10282884
Land Girls WWII
Land Girl, Lin Gapp, a former secretary in a cosmetics laboratory, is
protected by a ground sheet from rain as she drives a tractor on a farm
during World War II
Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Picture No 10645141
Land girls in training 1939
Ploughing practice, her first solo trip on a tractor, determined to make
her first furrow straight. If she can already drive a car she would
not find it difficult to , but starting the engine is another matter.
Mary Evans/Robert Hunt Collection Picture No 10282890
Land Girl working with a tractor on a farm during World War II
Mary Evans/Robert Hunt Collection Picture No 10282852
Land Girl Vera Clarke learns how to drive a tractor with passengers Lin
Gapp and an instructor during World War II. Vera was an orchestra leader
in Lyons Corner House and Lin was a secretary in a cosmetics
laboratory.
Women’s Land Army
Paul Townsend: “Bristol at War - Women’s Land Army, Somerset 1942
Somerset summer of 1942 and city girls don wellies and dungarees.
The girls of the land army looked after animals, ploughed the fields, dug up potatoes, harvested the crops, killed the rats, dug and hoed for 48 hours a week in the winter and 50 hours a week in the summer.”