Women Agriculturists (1914-1918)

Women Agriculturists - students at Studley learn to do men’s work on the land. Warwickshire or Wiltshire. M/S of a woman in a smock and headscarf saddling a horse in a farmyard. She leads the horse around the farmyard. Nice rural shot of three women with two horses ploughing a field. Women workers in long aprons loading bales of hay in farmyard. Women queue at window to get their pay (we just see a hand sticking out of the window, dispensing coins). Women fasten a tarpaulin to a railway wagon which is then shifted right round on turntable by a man. Women with parcels of hay or other goods, loading them onto railway wagon at station. Station master walks along giving instructions. Good footage of women doing traditional men’s work. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT Brit