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Women's Land Army

  • A Hard Life But a Happy One
    A Hard Life But a Happy One
    The Memoirs of Margaret Hurst, a Hertfordshire Land Girl
  • A Vital Link
    A Vital Link
    The importance of the Land Girl Magazine
  • After the War
    After the War
    What happened to members of the Women's Land Army after the war
  • Long Days and Hard Work
    Long Days and Hard Work
    Training and everyday life for members of the WLA
  • The Memoirs of Margaret Hurst Part One
    The Memoirs of Margaret Hurst Part One
    The decision to join In 1942 I was in my 18th year and I was about to be called up. I ...
  • The Memoirs of Margaret Hurst Part Three
    The Memoirs of Margaret Hurst Part Three
    ‘We’ve hit a bomb!’ One morning I had to go up to Broxbourne to plough up some marshland (any spare land ...
  • The Memoirs of Margaret Hurst Part Two
    The Memoirs of Margaret Hurst Part Two
    One foggy morning… fellow potato pickers got devious One foggy morning a gang of us were sent potato picking at Wormley. ...
  • The Women's Land Army in Hertfordshire
    The Women's Land Army in Hertfordshire
    What role did the WLA play in Hertforshire? With war looming and food reserves rapidly diminishing, Britain desperately needed to revitalise ...
  • Women and Farmers in WW1 ... and Penguins
    Women and Farmers in WW1 ... and Penguins
    In June 1916  Colonel and the Hon Mrs Abel Smith offered the use of a furnished house in Stapleford to ...
  • Women, Food and Farming in WW1
    Women, Food and Farming in WW1
    By 1915, the import of food was restricted by the blockade by German U Boats.  “Home grown” became a necessity.  ...
  • WOMEN'S LAND ARMY - during WW2
    WOMEN'S LAND ARMY - during WW2
    A hostel and base in Watton at Stone
World War Two
  • A German Spy in London Colney
  • A Hard Life But a Happy One
  • A Vital Link
  • An American in Tewin
  • An unknown wartime R.A.F. p.o.w.
  • And so the bells were silent
  • Baby Respirator
  • Berlin to Helmstedt Movement Order
  • Blackout Aids in Watford
  • Bombed in the war
  • Bovingdon Memories – At War
  • Boxmoor
  • Digging Shelters in Welwyn Garden City
  • Distribution of Gas Masks at Cheshunt School, 1938
  • Dog Respirator
  • Evacuees in Hertfordshire
  • Evacuees to Weston, nr Hitchin, Hertfordshire
  • Frank Smith
  • From London to Cottered in Wartime
  • Glebe Farm, Offley
  • Gwendoline Page – From Boreham Wood To Bletchley
  • Italian POWs from Royston Camp at Harvest
  • John Robert Scales
  • Knebworth during the Second World War
  • Leonard Frederick Butler
  • Letchworth Invasion Plan circa 1941
  • Liberator Bomber crash
  • Liberator bomber crash memorial
  • Liberator Bomber Crash Waltham Cross 1944
  • Lieutenant John D. Ellis
  • Living in St Albans during WW2
  • Living in St Albans during WW2 cont'd
  • London fire
  • Long Days and Hard Work
  • Markyate Home Guard
  • Memories of Thundridge Part 1
  • Mum's Story
  • My Teenage War
  • Notes for Assistance of Persons affected by War Damage
  • Photo of The War Memorial, Berkhamsted taken from The Court Cinema.
  • Potato Water
  • Preparing for war - 1938
  • Preperations for War 1938
  • Puttenham is Thankful
  • R.A.F Reserve School Pupils at Panshanger Aerodrome
  • Resources for Schools
  • Sergeant Stanley Henry Welch
  • Shelter in the Storm
  • Some Memories of Markyate during the 2nd World War.
  • Street Scene in Watford, September 1939
  • Tess Road Police Station WW2
  • The Bridge over the Kwai
  • The forgotten fireman cheats death by seconds
  • The Franklin Avenue, Ripley Way and Bakers Road VE Day Party
  • The last bomb to land on British soil.
  • The Observer Corps
  • The Women's Land Army in Hertfordshire
  • Unloading Anderson Shelter in Watford
  • V2 hits the Brush Factory at Waltham Cross
  • VE Day Party in Sandpits Road, WGC
  • War Time Colney Heath
  • War work at Ballito
  • Wardens surprised
  • Wartime Memories
  • Wartime Potters Bar
  • Was this a Hertford Man?
  • Watford in WW II
  • WOMEN'S LAND ARMY - during WW2
  • Woolmer Green Home Guard
  • WW2 Hertfordshire Air Raid Damage by District
  • WW2 Hertfordshire Air Raid Number of Casualties
  • WW2 Information Leaflets
  • WW2 Rationing & Recipes
  • Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
  • Home Guard
  • VJ Day - 75th Anniversary in 2020
  • Air Raid Precautions
  • Battle of Britain Exhibition
  • VE Day
  • Evacuees
  • Wartime letters
  • Women's Land Army
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  • Letters from ex Prisoners of War
    The following appeared in the Hertfordshire Mercury, on 8th February, 1919.  It was clearly not a pleasant experience being a ...
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    Architecturally this is one of the five most important Hertfordshire almshouses, and is one of those buildings you immediately recognise ...
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