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College hands help with harvest

College boys began helping with harvest during World War Two. David Pitts (Selwyn's 1950) recounts his memories of assisting at such camps during 1948 and 1949.
London schoolboys gathering the potato harvest on Hampstead Heath, Museum of English Rural Life
London schoolboys gathering the potato harvest on Hampstead Heath, Museum of English Rural Life

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