A sculpture has been unveiled this week at the National Memorial Arboreteum, Alrewas, Staffordshire to commemorate the work of the Women's Land Army. The tribute to the work of the Land Girls is a sculpture by Denise Dutton and features a Land Girl and a Lumber Jill. The Land Army worked the land while the men were away fighting and helped to keep Britain supplied with food and wood.
The Land Girls are also a popular theme with the re-enactors who wear dungarees, headscarves and wellington boots and of course the green woollen jumpers associated with the Land Army, also often carrying baskets of vegetables, fruit and flowers. The photographs accompanying this article were taken at the "Step back to the 1940's" weekends at the Severn Valley Railway 2014.
Often at 1940's events there are examples of "work on the farm" and this year Bantock House World War Weekend, Wolverhampton and Rushden Transport Museum Homefront War Weekend, Northamptonshire featured displays, with Blist's Hill Homefront Evening, Shropshire, inviting visitors to "join" the land Army and help with a demonstration of a working shire horse.
