THE contribution made by women in the farming world in Monmouthshire is being celebrated during the 100th anniversary year of the first women's voting rights in Britain. A day of memories, pictures and factual presentations on Saturday, April 28 will be complemented by a Grown in Monmouthshire lunch.
The event at Abergavenny Community Centre, which was formerly a Victorian school, will feature a panel of local farmers' wives whose memories go back to the days of breeding pit ponies; rearing a pig for the kitchen and harvesting with a binder and threshing machine.
An illustrated talk on Women in Agriculture during the First World War will start the day and a discussion of the contemporary issues facing the industry will end the event - before tea and cakes provided by the Ab Fab Women's Institute. Photographs on show will include the work of Land Girls, The Women's Land Army in the Second World War, when young women moved from the industrial heartlands to help the 'dig for victory' which kept besieged Britons adequately fed.
To find out more or to attend the event, which will be filmed for archive purposes, please contact organiser Katrina Gass on 01873 855760 or email katrinagass@yahoo.co.uk
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