Cadbury land girls (1917 to 1918)
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This image is taken from the Cadbury Archive and shows the Cadbury Land Girls with vegetables at the Badsey factory. The text reads: "At the request of the Government, the firm instituted a vegetable drying plant, and afterwards the Badsey factory was built to deal with this work.
Here are a few vegetables from the gardeners dept. being handed in to the stores. Note the "land-girls" who deputised for the men serving with the forces." In Allotments for All, GW Butcher (1918) wrote: “That the war-time allotment-holder has rendered magnificent service during the past year is, incontrovertible. In no small measure he has added to the food supply at a time when a grave shortage was imminent. In a few weeks the wretched potato queues were abolished - let us hope for ever - the consumption of bread was markedly reduced, enormous quantities of meat and other foodstuffs were saved, as also were transport and labour, all of which was, and is, of inestimable advantage to the country.”
By 1918, wartime allotment plots in Birmingham covered more than 1000 acres and were divided for around 12,000 tenants
Image used with kind permission from the Cadbury Trust ©
