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Tootal Broadhurst Lee Co Ltd (Manufacturer)

This is a tie especially made for Women’s Land Army volunteers and it has the W.L.A colours of green and red. There is also an inscription on the label: ‘TOOTAL TIE // STANDARD QUALITY’. The tie was an extra to the W.L.A uniform and the cost was 1s 9d.

1 W. L. A. tie: good condition

MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Standard museum name: TIE // Accession number: 88/61 // Classification: PERSONAL clothing accessory // Negative number: 60/15741 // Acquisition method: GIFT // Acquired from: [...] AMPHILL, BEDFORD // Date: 10 June 1988 // Store: // Condition: good // Recorder: JMB // Date: 10.3.89 // Description: WOMEN'S LAND ARMY UNIFORM // This tie, especially made for the W.L.A. volunteers, is made of a silky fibre and is in the W.L.A. colours of green and red. The tie is green with red stripes with W.L.A. in gold letters in the stripes. // Inscription on label: TOOTAL TIE // STANDARD QUALITY // DIMENSIONS: Length: 113.0 cm // Associated information: These ties were extra to the uniform and cost 1s 9d. // References:', MERL miscellaneous note, Georgia Charitou, September 2014 – Objects 88/44-66 form part of the Doreen Thorp Collection of material relating to the Women’s Land Army. The collection consists of papers relating to the career or Doreen Thorp in the W.L.A. from 1939-47, as well as items of clothing which form part of a W.L.A. uniform. ‘, Transcription of information about Doreen Thorp – ‘Mrs. N. D. Warren (nee Thorp) 13.6.1923 – 3.1.1988. // In September 1939 I joined the Women’s Land Army and in October I started two months training at the Midland Agricultural College in poultry, milking (hand & machine), stock and general farm work.’

1939 - 1947