British Women’s Legion - Splendid Work At Oakham By Our New Food Providers (1914-1918)

British women’s legion - splendid work at Oakham by our new food providers. Leicestershire. Women war workers. Opens with shot of tall haystack; with a woman agriculture worker using a pitchfork to toss hay to the top; where another woman flattens it on the stack. Women work at some sort of laundry (?) machines; turning cranks. A woman riding a horse across field; toward camera; zigzagging — like barrel racing without the barrels. Then a group of 4 ride horses across; a small crowd watching on right. A woman drives a wagon; manoeuvring it between posts. Then a woman rides on the back of one of a team of big work horses; hitched together; she has a sack of something slung across in front of her. She leans down; opens gate and rides through. Another shot of this. A crowd watches in BG. Evidently this is some sort of competition for the women wartime farm workers. World War One. contest FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUM