[Shepherdess]

1948 , Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk)

Cat no. 717

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A Pathe Pictorial newsreel item about Miss Betty Agar, a Land Army volunteer who went on to become a full-time shepherdess.

Miss Betty Agar left her job in a draper's shop in 1942 to join the Land Army. After a month's training with farmer, George Gittus, she stayed on after the war becoming a fully-fledged shepherdess. Betty with her dog tends her pedigree Suffolk sheep, feeds a lamb from a bottle and shows a lamb to a potential buyer.

Keywords

Farming; Land Army; Sheep; Shepherdesses; Women in work

Other Places

Hazelmere, Surrey

Production company : Pathe
Maker : Pathe

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[Shepherdess]

Genre: Agriculture / Newsreel
Locations: Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk)
Description Type: monographic
Subject: shepherdesses / sheep

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