Description:
Fixed at the apex of the hut's roof is the insignia of the Woman's Land Army. In the photograph the details are unclear but the badge is circular in shape with an agricultural themed emblem of a wheatsheaf in the centre and the King's crown at the top (George VI was King at the time). In a boarder around the outside of the emblem is written "Woman's Land Army".
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Ross Gazette April 24, 1947 - page 8
Situations Vacant
Applications are invited for the position of Training Manager to reside at Morraston House, Ross-on-Wye. Duties will comprise elementary agricultural training of members of the W.L.A. and the allocation of labour from the hostels to local farmers.
Ross Gazette June 12, 1947 - page 3
"W.L.A. HOSTEL OPENED
MORASTON HOUSE THE NEW QUARTERS"
...Moraston House, in the parish of Bridstow...is in the hands of the County war Agricultural Executive Committee, and...last week was opened as a training hostel for the Women's Land Army Recruits...There is accommodation there for some thirty girls, who are to undergo a two months' course in milking, dairywork, tractor work, hedging and other branches of farming, following that particular training the girls will then be transferred to other hostels in Herefordshire...Following the opening ceremony the visitors were shown over the hostel by the warden, Miss E. A. Potton...Miss E. A. Williams is the assistant warden and there is a further staff of seven in number...
Two of the new entrants, who arrived at the hostel last week, Miss Ethel Roberts and Miss Muriel Boswell, both of Liverpool, told a Press representative that they thought the hostel and its amenities left nothing to be desired. It was necessary, they said to leave Ross early in the evening if they went to the pictures, in order to catch the last bus back...
Ross Gazette January 29, 1948 - page 4
Public Notices
Members of the W.L.A. at Three Crosses Hostel, Ross, and Perrystone Court, near Ross are available for Work in Private Gardens during the month of February.
Ross Gazette October 26, 1950 - page 7
"By The Way"
Farewell to the Girls in Green...
...Hostels at Ross and Perrystone, which at one time accommodated 45 girls, and at Moraston where there were 25 trainees, have closed quietly and it is 18 months since the county organisation was transferred to Monmouthshire.
