Land girls at Suffolk milking training centre

P FW PH2/W50/1

6 May 1943

Fox Photos Ltd, Farmers Weekly, Women's Land Army (Great Britain)

English press photographic agency based in London. Originally founded by Mr Fox and Mr Salmon, it became a limited company (Fox Photos Limited) 1 January 1935 with premises at 6 Tudor Street, Fleet Street, London EC4. Circa 1970s or 1980s, a company photographer George Freston took over the business. By this time the office was at 69/71 Farringdon Road, London, EC1, with a laboratory at Scoresby Street, and offices in Manchester and Glasgow. The company ceased trading by 1999. Freston died in 2006.The photograph library was passed to Hulton Archive, and then to Getty Images. Fox Photos Ltd also had a joint enterprise with Home Movies & Home Talkies Magazine to produce a monthly film newsreel circa 1933 to 1934.

trainees passing through a gate on their way to work

1 photo. : b&w

type: PRINT, dimensions: 19 x 14 cm.

English

War in the press, War photography, War work, Women in agriculture, Women- Employment- History, Training, War Agricultural Executive Committees, Graphic Materials

Available

RHC copy negative NMC35/32384RHC copy slide TMC4617