Land Girl - The Happiest Years of My Early Life

A Memoir of Service in the Women's Land Army 1939-46

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Picture of Jeanne Flann at 19 Bounds Oak Way in the 1980s

Jean Flann holding the Flann Family Pusscat on the patio behind 19 Bounds Oak Way, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells Kent, sometime in the 1980s. Jeanne has her pinny on, and was undoubtedly interrupted for this picture when she was putting her culinary skills to work making something delicious for her family.

America was Jeanne’s new home. First in Montana where her son Christopher lives, and next in Utah where he son Nicholas lives. She now enjoys a quiet life in her golden years made the longer she thinks with the joys of life in her new home in the United States and the wonderful medical care she has received.

It is in this retirement, assisted by her family and friends, she had the opportunity to create this memoir of her time in the Women’s Land Army as one of the first Land Girls to join up.

Jeanne would like to note that this is a personal memoir. It is for her family, friends and those interested in social history. The copyright is hers. No part of it may be used or reproduced in any form for commercial use whatsoever. For other purposes written consent is required. If you wish to use or reproduce anything published here, you may contact me.

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About Me

Proud member of the Women's Land Army, Jeanne Flann, nee Harlow, here. Happily retired in Utah after a full and satisfying life that got off to a great start working as a Land Girl in the Trough of Bowland, you can read more about me.

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Book Outline

  • Introduction
  • Part One
    • Chapter 1 – Prologue, the Sullivans, the Harlows and My Childhood
    • Chapter 2 – Joining Up – The Women’s Land Army
    • Chapter 3 – Lancashire College of Agriculture at Hutton
  • Part Two
    • Chapter 4 – Lower Greenbank Farm Over Wyresdale
    • Chapter 5 – Holt Farm Gateacre – Tragedy & Deliverance
    • Chapter 6 – Marshaw, The Trough of Bowland Fells
  • Part Three
    • Chapter 7 – Epilogue
    • Chapter 8 – Recognition at Last
  • Appendix

All Sections

  • Finished for Now – Land Girls.Me a Memoir
  • Welcome to Land Girls
  • Appendix – The Bowland Fells
  • Recognition at Last For Land Girls
  • Epilogue – Life After Being a Land Girl in the WLA
  • Last and Best Assignment as a Land Girl: Marshaw – The Trough of Bowland
  • Second Assignment as a Land Girl: Holt Hall Farm, Liverpool – Tragedy and Deliverance
  • First Assignment as a Land Girl: Lower Greenbank Farm, Over Wyresdale

Land Girls Memoirs and Other Memoirs

In the two step process of creating a paper memoir and now converting it into a web based one, it is my hope that my memoir, Land Girl - The Happiest Years of Early Childhood joins other Land Girl memoirs as a member of that genre, and contributes to it.

My husband has his own memoir through the same process as mine, paper memoir first, then website GunnerFlann.com. He too hopes his memoir contributes to the National Service Memoirs genre.

Please let us know if you agree contact me.

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