Mersea Seed Growers at Bocking Hall Farm, West Mersea.
L-R Mabel Farthing [ later Mabel Benns ], ?, ?, Pullen, Pullen...
The armbands are in memory of the local men who lost their lives in WW1.
Copies of this vary in date and some copies mention Beat Green and Mabel Benns.
A note from Brian Jay gives the names Annie Lee, Tot Green, Mabel Farthing, Ivy Hoy, Beat Green, Lucy Hoy.
Photograph used in "Isle of Mersea" by Brian Jay, photo no. 13. and in A Short History of Mersea 5th edition.
"Bocking Hall has a history going back over 1,000 years" - Anglo Saxon Island by Sue Howlett, page 32.
Photograph used in Essex Land Girls by Dee Gordon, published 2015. Page 32.
Date: c1918