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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Acknowledgements

My thanks for the help that I received regarding this memoir of my service in the Women’s Land Army as a Land Girl go out for the three stages of creating it. First, I am especially grateful to the late Veronica Ormerod, (nee Rattray) my life long friend for sharing her memories and photographs of our land girl days and to Audrey Giles (nee Kidd) for her photographs and information. Without my fellow Land Girls help, I would not have a had such a clear picture of my time all those many years ago.

Once I had the memories, and evidence of them in photographs, my husband John spent many hours researching, compiling, drafting and writing this memoir. I must thank him too for his interest in helping me get started with my own memoir after he learned so much about how to create a memoir for his own time in the National Service as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery. His research skills show in developing the history of my family, the Sullivans and the Harlows. While John created a document, my son Nicholas helped format it so that it could be printed in book form. He also offered his expertise and many pertinent and insightful comments.

At this stage, I thought my memoir would remain, a book prepared for family and friends. As my other son Christopher learned more about the Internet and how to host and create websites in WordPress, he offered to take the paper book and convert it into an online version. You are reading the results of his efforts now, and I thank him for that.

Without them and others, this small chapter of social history could not have been created.

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

  • Introduction to My Land Girls Memoir
  • Prologue – The Sullivans, the Harlows and My Childhood
  • Joining Up – The Women’s Land Army
  • Lancashire College of Agriculture at Hutton
  • First Assignment as a Land Girl: Lower Greenbank Farm, Over Wyresdale
  • Second Assignment as a Land Girl: Holt Hall Farm, Liverpool – Tragedy and Deliverance
  • Last and Best Assignment as a Land Girl: Marshaw – The Trough of Bowland
  • Epilogue – Life After Being a Land Girl in the WLA

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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