Women's Land Army

A Hard Life But a Happy One
The Memoirs of Margaret Hurst, a Hertfordshire Land Girl
A Vital Link
The importance of the Land Girl Magazine
After the War
What happened to members of the Women's Land Army after the war
Long Days and Hard Work
Training and everyday life for members of the WLA
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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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