Description
Object description
Ms notebook (25pp) containing a training diary kept while attending the Cheshire School of Agriculture, Reaseheath, Cheshire (September - October 1942) including notes on dairy farming, horticulture, poultry, kitchen gardens, arable crops and livestock; together with an interesting and detailed diary (546pp, written on loose sheets of paper and in four exercise books) covering her service in the Women's Land Army at mixed farms near Chester (November 1942 - October 1943) and Knutsford (October 1943 - September 1944) and as a recorder for the Milk Marketing Board based on the Wirral area (October 1944 - June 1945?) recording at length her various duties, her willingness to learn, her relationship with the farmers, their wives, and her non-Land Army colleagues, her enjoyment of local entertainment and involvement with local girl guide groups, her frequent visits to the family home in Birkenhead, and comparisons between lodging with a farmer and living in one of the WLA hostels (Rangemoor Hostel, Rostherne, Cheshire), and including brief mention of D-Day and VE Day. Also with the collection is an ms notebook (182pp) used by her while a milk recorder (1944 - 1945) to record weekly visits to cows and earmarking of herds on farms in Cheshire and Derbyshire, a portrait photograph of her in uniform, 1943, and 12 photographs of her and fellow land girls at work on the land.
Content description
Ms notebook (25pp) containing a training diary kept while attending the Cheshire School of Agriculture, Reaseheath, Cheshire (September - October 1942) including notes on dairy farming, horticulture, poultry, kitchen gardens, arable crops and livestock; together with an interesting and detailed diary (546pp, written on loose sheets of paper and in four exercise books) covering her service in the Women's Land Army at mixed farms near Chester (November 1942 - October 1943) and Knutsford (October 1943 - September 1944) and as a recorder for the Milk Marketing Board based on the Wirral area (October 1944 - June 1945?) recording at length her various duties, her willingness to learn, her relationship with the farmers, their wives, and her non-Land Army colleagues, her enjoyment of local entertainment and involvement with local girl guide groups, her frequent visits to the family home in Birkenhead, and comparisons between lodging with a farmer and living in one of the WLA hostels (Rangemoor Hostel, Rostherne, Cheshire), and including brief mention of D-Day and VE Day. Also with the collection is an ms notebook (182pp) used by her while a milk recorder (1944 - 1945) to record weekly visits to cows and earmarking of herds on farms in Cheshire and Derbyshire, a portrait photograph of her in uniform, 1943, and 12 photographs of her and fellow land girls at work on the land.
History note
Cataloguer PJG
History note
Catalogue date 1995-12-15