Wartime cover star known as the ‘girl with the tractor’, now aged 100, tells her extraordinary story
Her blonde hair is waved; she wears carmine lipstick and a chunky hand-knitted sweater as she poses smiling, in elegant profile, at the wheel of a tractor. What image could more strikingly sum up the potent mix of grit and glamour of World War II’s Land Girls? The photo on the cover of Picture Post magazine … Read more