Site of Land Army hostel, Salford Priors
Description of this historic site
A group of buildings can be seen on aerial photographs in the grounds of Park Hall which are described as a Land Army Hostel on Ordnance Survey Map.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Buildings used in WW2 as a Land army Hostel and emergency water tanks were mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project. The huts are arranged in a distinctive star configuration.
2 Identification of site comes comes from name seen on 1950/60s 1:10600 OS map (exact edition not known).
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Here I spent some of happiest days of my life in the W.L.A. potato picking, harvesting,
We often worked for local farmer ‘Bomfords’ Happy days I was Maureen Greer in those days!.
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