Lumberjills of Dalby

Decided to try my knee out on a 5km Park Run in Dalby. Took it veeeeeery steady just to get round. A lovely morning lovely to be out on the trails. Quite a bit of work to do to build running speed.

Stopped off at the Lumberjills Statue as we left. This is a sculpture by Ray Lonsdale to commemorate the role of women who worked in Britain’s woodlands during the Second World War. More than 9,000 women known as lumberjills were recruited from all over the country and posted to forests where they carried out the heavy work of felling and crosscutting trees by hand as well as working in sawmills, loading trucks and driving tractors.