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Second Assignment as a Land Girl: Holt Hall Farm, Liverpool – Tragedy and Deliverance

February 3, 2014 By LG-Admin 2 Comments

Now Well, What’s Next?

My time in the convent allowed me to think of my circumstances; and my thoughts kept returning to Over Wyresdale, for I had no intention of returning to Holt Hall even if Veronica was there. I did not necessarily want to go back to Lower Green Bank Farm even if Mr Kidd would accept me, but I especially remembered Marshaw, and so set my sights on getting a place on that farm.

Getting an Assignment at Marshaw

How exactly I ended with a new assignment at Marshaw, I cannot now recall. But I think the I adopted a twofold approach. Having met Mr John Drinkall the farmer, I probably wrote expressing an interest in working for him. Remembering who I was and him needing a land girl, he said that he would accept me, providing I satisfied him of my farming abilities. I had no doubts about that. I also must have spoken to my WLA supervisor, who apart from being understanding and sympathetic was just as anxious as I was to get me back to duty. I think Mr John’s – as he was always known – respect for Mr. Kidd tipped the balance for me. Mr John knew that if I earned commendations for my willingness and aptitude for hill farm work from Mr Kidd who Mr John respected as a capable man, he knew I had been well taught, and so it was arranged I should work at Marshaw. The WLA supervisor whom I cannot remember, but who took the trouble to arrange this transfer is another person that I am grateful to.

And so after several enforced months of rest, and too many for me away from duty, on being passed as fit, I was able to get to Marshaw, resolutely putting Holt Hall and this distressing and painful event behind me.

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Filed Under: Chapter 5 - Holt Farm Gateacre - Tragedy & Deliverance, Part Two Tagged With: Accident, Aunt Monica, Convalesence, Convent, dairy, Deliverance, Holt Hall Farm, Liverpool, milk float, milking, Second Assignment, Tragedy

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  1. Les Jackson says

    August 4, 2020 at 1:16 PM

    My family owned Holt Hall Farm from the 1920s to the 1960s and I believe that Billy may be my father. It is very to read about from another perspective.

    Reply
  2. Tom Magness says

    September 27, 2020 at 1:42 AM

    Very interesting read, especially about Holt Hall farm.

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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

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  • Welcome to Land Girls
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  • 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

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