History & Heritage

Mary Martin

Mary Martin was born in 1916.  In this 37 minute interview she talks about her early life in Salford and then her Land Army posting, training in the Cartmel Fell area and then working in Major Dixon’s Greenbank farm, doing office work, milking cows and delivering the milk in Cartmel after learning to drive.  She talks about living in Longlands owned by Major Dixon and managed by Roy her husband,  her B&B business at Greenbank, rationing and shopping as well as the visitors at the B&B including the interviewer.