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Women in Industry: Mother and daughter team working on a shell painting machine at a Sheffield munitions factory.

Women welders making stirrup pump handles during the Second World War.

A photo of female patients in beds pushed onto a veranda at an unidentified hospital in Leicester, 1945

Women of the Land Army perfect hay stacks at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture.

Women of the Land Army drink milk on their break at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture

Woman of the Land Army ploughs field with a horse at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture

Iris Joyce, woman of the Land Army, leads a bull at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture in 1942

One of their daughters was Rosalind Bruce:
‘After the death of his first wife, Leonard Huxley married Rosalind Bruce, and had two further sons. The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (1915 – 1992), whose daughter Angela married George Pember…