World War One At Home - Wales
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“A Land Girl in the City” looks at the work of land girls in the women's land army from 1914-1918 and features archive recording with Agnes Greatorex who worked at Green Farm in Cardiff. The building, now owned by Cardiff County Council, was restored in keeping with the original farmhouse and is in use today as a hostel.
It has 25 rooms and accommodates single people and families who are homeless and in priority need. The debt Britain owed the women who kept the country's farms going during the First World War was huge. The hours were long, the conditions dirty and the work excruciatingly hard. Land girls, also known as the forgotten army, made a unique contribution to the war effort, without which an embattled country would have faced starvation.
