Reference
Z50/142/366
Title
Group photograph of women's hoeing or weeding group in a field near Potton Church.
Left to Right: Molly Inskip, Sally Duffin, Mrs Chapman, three sisters - Mrs Hutchinson, Mrs Drew and Mrs Whitfield, Sarah Clark and Annie Gilbert. Mrs Clark died January 1982, aged 90. Mrs. Clark was Mrs. F. Hopkins' mother, and Sally Duffin was aunt to the three sisters.
[Information supplied by Mrs. Hopkins to Biggleswade Chronicle who published the photograph 29th Jan. 1982]
One of the women in the hoeing picture 'was courting all her life' and never married. When her hair was going grey she dyed it with black ink, - caught in a heavy downpour of rain 'she looked a mess - black ink all down her neck and frock - you never saw such a sight'.
[Information from Mrs. Hopkins]
Date free text
c. 1920
Production date
From: 1915 To: 1925
Format
photograph
Level of description
item