Women farm workers on the Sandringham Estate

Before the formation of the Women’s Land Army, the Misses Hobson and their cousin Miss Maxfield were recruited in 1916 to work on the Sandringham Estate. They were related to my late wife. In November 1916 there was a great deal of press interest and a newsreel of them in action – no doubt all of this to encourage other girls to do their bit for the war effort by working on the land.

Michael Osborn

Photographs of women farm workers on the Sandringham Estate in 1916

Turnip chopping at Sandringham
Turnip chopping at Sandringham during the First World War.
Phyllis, Hilda and Marjorie
Women workers Phyllis, Hilda and Marjorie on the Sandringham Estate.
Lands Girls on the Sandringham Estate bringing in cows from the pasture
Women on the Sandringham Estate bringing in cows from the pasture
Land Girls on the Sandringham Estate with bulls
Women on the Sandringham Estate, each next to a bull.
Land Girls on the Sandringham Estate with a bull
3 female farm workers on the Sandringham Estate with a bull.
Land Girls on the Sandringham Estate at the milking pail
Women on the Sandringham Estate at the milking pail.
Land Girls on the Sandringham Estate at the cowshed
Women on the Sandringham Estate at the cowshed.

Feature on women farm workers in Country Life, published on 11th November 1916.

Feature on Sandringham Land Girls in Country Life on 11th January 1916
Feature on Sandringham Land Girls in Country Life on 11th January 1916 2

Woman manageress of royal diary, published in the Penrith Observer in 1924.

A feature on women farm workers at Sandringham published in the Penrith Observer.

Watch footage on the BBC World War At Home website

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