Blomvyle Hall - the first WLA hostel to be opened in East Suffolk

The front of Blomvyle Hall .

Blomvyle Hall was the first WLA hostel to be opened in East Suffolk. It opened in January 1942 and was situated off Easton Lane, Hacheston, IP13 0DY.

Land girls were posted to Blomvyle Hall from other parts of the country, especially the North of England. There were also a number of local girls from Suffolk.

Trains would stop at Hacheston Halt and let girls off. There was no platform at Hacheston and so the girls would have had to have used ladders to climb down from the train.

The girls' local pub would have been the Queen's Head at the junction of Easton Lane and Hacheston Street. Easton White Horse would have been the next nearest pub in the opposite direction.

Dot Coleman (nee Marshall) throughly relished her WLA serive at Blomvyle Hall and took masses of photographs of the Land Girls in working kit out in the fields and in mufti relaxing back at the hostel.

Images kindly supplied by Dot and the family.

Wrapped up against the cold and ready to start work. Transport van behind the girls.

Dot in the centre and Hilda Ritchie on the right.

Relaxing in the garden in the summer.

Correspondence from the Warden at Blomvyle Hall. Published in the August 1947 issue of the Land Girl.

By the barns at Blomvyle Hall.