Page 54 - Life in Langham 1914-1919

Women and Children Help

The women of Langham fulfilled many different roles during the war

years. They had to manage their homes and children, deal with the

difficulties caused by food and fuel rationing and play their part by

doing work that more normally would have been left to the menfolk.

Margaret Catchpole noted that:

Rationing was felt more in the large towns and cities than in the rural areas but

everyone worked hard; women in the fields; children of a large family gardening,

wooding, gleaning and helping the farmers.

Ernest Walker recalled:

The kitchen garden presented no problem to my father, only time was the short

ingredient, both I and my brother Ben were forced to spend much of our otherwise

leisure time learning and applying the arts and crafts of a gardener and his tools.

. . .

Flag Sale - £1 2s. 9d. was raised last week by selling

flags by five of the Baptist Sunday School children, on

behalf of the National Crusade for the Children of our

Homeland and our Allies.
Grantham Journal 14 April 1917

May Day - Mrs Dawson of the Old Hall lent her

donkey and cart very gaily decorated with red, white and

blue ribbons and flowers, with the Queen of the May…

escorted round the village by the School girls, suitably

dressed, carrying flags and singing patriotic songs.

Grantham Journal - 5 May 1917

The Shortage of Male Labour - Punch or the London Charivari - 20 September 1916