Women Hay Makers Topical Budget 255-1

Women Hay Makers Topical Budget 255-1


Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI

It's all go in the hayfield at Warden's Hall Farm in Willingale, Essex - raking, forking, piling, lifting and loading the harvest onto a cart. These charming scenes of industrious land girls making hay would have served as a morale booster for weary cinema audiences during WW1. The opening title proclaims the women were supervised by the daughter-in-law of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood - but she's not obviously present in the film, and as Wood had three sons it's unclear to whom this refers.


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