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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.

	18 Aug 2022
	Written by David Pitts
	Member's Musings

London schoolboys gathering the potato harvest on Hampstead Heath, Museum of English Rural Life

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