Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 3. p. 617
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WOMEN WORKERS ON THE LAND
One of the brightest spots in the war has been the splendid way in which the women and girls of England have rallied to the help of their country. They have whole-heartedly taken up the most arduous forms of work, and in no sphere have they more distinguished themselves than that of agriculture, and in Berkshire especially, as Miss Gladys Pott said a short time ago, women have been well to the fore on the land. Lady Rose, district representative to the Board of Agriculture, who addressed the workers on the land at Mapledurham, shown in our illustration, spoke in praise of the good work done by the women of Mapledurham during the past year, and told her personal experiences as a land worker. She called attention to the need of milkers to replace the men still being called up, and appealed to al to cultivate more potatoes and to keep more pigs and poultry during the coming year.
Members of Hemdean House Upper School and Kendrick Girls' School have also been using the spade and fork to good purpose on their recreation grounds. They have gone trench digging in detachments. Acting under good advice these girl gardeners have produced vegetables of the very first quality.
Thirty-one workers on the land at Mapledurham were entertained at dinner by Miss Lily Thackeray on January 4, 1917. Lady Rose, Miss Winifred Chowne and Mrs Woolfall were also present. Thirty-nine workers had "done their bit" during 1916, of whom 33 are still on the register. [Photo by E. Frankum
KENDRICK GIRL GARDENERS
Members of the sixth, fifth and upper fourth forms of the Kendrick Girls' School, Reading, are using the spade and fork to good purpose on their recreation ground in Addington Road, where they are cultivating vegetables. They went trench digging in detachments.
SPADES (AND FORKS) ARE TRUMPS. - The pupils of Hemdean House Hockey Club (Upper School) took the spade for the
hockey stick.
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