Reference
X1022/1
Title
Photographs of Sharnbrook Farming Camp by R Ruff
Date free text
1939-1945
Production date
From: 1939 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.
Level of description
sub-fonds