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X657/216
Title
View of the hall and welcome sign at Sharnbrook Farm Camp
Date free text
c 1943
Production date
From: 1943 To: 1945
Admin/biog history
Bedfordshire War Agriculture 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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