VIDEO: Land Girls’ reunion - Women’s Land Army and Timber Corps members meet in Horsham.

The ‘Land Girls’ played a vital role in keeping Britain’s rural economy - particularly food production - functioning during both world wars.

With so many of the men away it fell to women to step in, taking on jobs like milking cows and feeding animals, but also tackling traditionally male tasks like ploughing and operating heavy machinery.

The Second World War version of the Women’s Land Army began in 1939 and, with the country struggling to rebuild, was not disbanded until 1950.

Land Girls played an important role in Britain’s social change, simply by giving women the opportunity to prove that they could cope with the long hours and hard work required in agriculture.

Age UK Horsham arranged the reunion, and hopes to organise another for October or November this year.