• Reference
    X657/215
  • Title
    Sharnbrook Farming Camp sign at the entrance with bell tents in the distance.
  • Date free text
    c 1943
  • Production date
    From: 1943 To: 1945
  • Admin/biog history
    Bedfordshire War Agricultural Executive Committee set up three Farming Camps at Blunham, Sharnbrook and Ampthill Park. Paid volunteers from towns and cities spent all or part of their annual summer holiday at these agricultural camps, enticed by the slogan 'Lend a hand on the land' and as an alternative to the holidays by the sea which were no longer possible with barbed wire surrounding many of the pre-war holiday resorts. Some were accommodated in bell tents, others in better equipped huts.
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  • Level of description
    item