Land girls thresh the corn in Kent

P FW PH2/T43/1

23 September 1941

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.

Four sisters at work on the rick and the threshing machine

1 photo. : b&w

type: PRINT, dimensions: 26 x 21 cm.

English

War work, Women in agriculture, Threshing machines, HARVESTING, Paddock Wood, Graphic Materials

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NOT TO BE REPRODUCED without the express permission of the Museum of English Rural Life and other copyright holders

Fox negative number 263105