Joan Bomford, extracts from memoirs 'Up With The Lark: My Life on the Land'

This record contains details of the wartime experience of Joan Bomford.

Joan Bomford lives near Evesham in Worcestershire. Joan has been farming since the 1930s. She continues to be very active on the farm today, and in 2015 she was BBC Countryfile’s Farming Hero 2015. Joan Bomford published her memoirs in ‘Up With The Lark: My Life on the Land’, 2015. This is included here with Joan’s permission. When the War began she would be about 8 years old. Throughout the War Joan’s father Colin Collins was required to continue working at Quarry Pits, a 100 acres farm near Inkberrow, Dormston, "in the heart of Worcestershire".