Memories of working in the Land Army
An oral history interview with Mrs Alice Hoare. Interview Date 17/05/2013
During the War, Alice worked in service for Lady Tottenham at Burley and then for a lady in Burley Road. At 18 she joined the Land Army and has some wonderful memories of working on the farm at Godwins Croft and then at Waterditch. She worked hard on the dairy farm but loved the work. She has memories of the jobs she had to do including haymaking, harvesting and hedge trimming. She was taken to dances with the Land Army. She met her husband while working at the farm and married in 1945.
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Interviewed by: Colin Gibson
Transcription by: Krysia Truscoe
Checked by: Sue Kackson
Audio Editor: Cosmic Carrot