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Description: | Rosie Pitteway of the Women's Land Army tends Blossom the horse at Brook Field, the London Transport farm at Bushey. This land was acquired by London Transport for a planned extension of the Northern line beyond Edgware. Construction work was suspended during the war.
Women in the Land Army worked on farms to maintain Britain's food production when male agricultural workers joined the armed forces to fight in the Second World War. Britain had to produce as much food as possible, since ships importing goods from abroad had great difficulty getting through.
Women were paid £1, 2 shillings and sixpence a week after board and lodging costs had been deducted. Many had moved from London to work on the surrounding farms. On their days off, they returned home. Any farm produce they could bring with them to supplement their families' rations would have been very welcome. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 8 Sep 1944 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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