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A Land Girl’s War  
Paperback book, 96 pages
 
Joan Snelling  
Published 2004
 
 
 
Price £4.95   add to cart  
ISBN 1-903366-67-4
 

In April 1941 eighteen-year-old Joan Snelling, or ‘Pop’ to her friends, volunteered for work in the Women’s Land Army. Within weeks she was duly employed as a land girl at Hoveton Fruit Farm, Norfolk. Here she undertook all sorts of farm work including learning how to drive a tractor.

Joan’s engaging and witty account shows that as land girls she and her friends found time amidst the hard toil to attend wartime dances and have romances with fighter pilots. Whilst Joan’s memoirs detail the perils of wartime life they also provide a humorous insight into farm work, where animals are unpredictable and falling asleep at the wheel of a tractor is an occupational hazard.

 
A Land Girl's War - Joan Snelling
 
  Hoveton fruit farm, 1941. The author is second from the left.
John on the horse rake and Herbert the foreman
 
  The author on the iron-wheeled Fordson.
The author, Scottie and Babe.