Ryedale Folk Museum

(Image found at:  http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/10/9/1318179164551/boy-listening-to-wireless-007.jpg , accessed 12/9/13. Just to remind everyone we now have downloadable podcasts to listen to on our Ryedale Folk Museum Radio page. Our most recent additions are from Meriel about the clothing collection and from Dorothy talking about her wartime experiences in the Women's Land Army. The podcasts can be found on the Ryedale Folk Museum Radio Page - just click on it or by this link: http://ryedalefolkmuseum.blogspot.co.uk/p/ryedale-folk-museum-radio.html Jonathan Severs

85 year old Margaret has been kind enough to share some of her memories of being in the Women's Land Army.  Click the picture below to hear her memories of wartime Britain, and how the Land Army was not always as glamorous as the recruitment posters liked to show. Carrie Gough