WW2 Photo: Merrily we roll along…
Land Girls cycling: ‘merrily we roll along’, 21st October 1942. This photograph was distributed to the New York Bureau to share the work of the British WLA across the Atlantic.
Source: Catherine Procter Collection
Caption: “Girls of England’s Land Army seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves as they cycle to work in the fields from a farmhouse where they have just enjoyed a post of lunch. Two other girls putt along on a tractor.”
Mark Smiles of ‘Colouring the Past‘, has created two colour versions of the photographs for website visitors below. If you’d like to see another of Mark’s colour Land Girl photo, please click here.
![A group of Bedfordshire land girls who joined the crowds celebrating the VE Day radio announcement at 3pm in St Paul's Square, Bedford, 8 May 1945. 'Victory in Europe [VE] Day' marked the end of the Second World War in Europe. The Allies continued fighting in Japan in the Far East until VJ Day [Victory over Japan] on 15 August 1945. Source: Bedfordshire Times. Courtesy of Stuart](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.womenslandarmy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/VE-Day-St-Pauls-Square-520x245.jpg)
