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This story was submitted to the People’s War Site by a volunteer from the actiondesk on behalf of Fredrick Bean and has been added to the site with her permission. Mr Bean fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

In my village there were several Land Army girls who worked the land. Helpston was an area were several farmers were dairy farmers. The Land Army girls more or less did all of the milking and cleaning the cow sheds. There were also two deliveries of milk to the houses every day and also the facility at the dairies for people to collect milk. Usually they would collect it in either pot jugs, tin jugs or other receptacles. The dairy maid would measure the milk into each person’s jug with a half pint measure; this was like a large beaker with a long handle. These girls lived in the farmhouses with the farming families.

A little later Italian and German prisoners of war came to work on the same farms and helped the girls.

It was a great combined effort at harvest time when all the farms joined together and gathered each others harvest.

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