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MISS B.O.M. SQUIRREL, OF WORTHAM ~ |
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| On Major Holt Wilson's
estate at Redgrave is East Anglia's first woman
gamekeeper. She is Miss B.0.M. Squirrell, of the Kennels,
Wortham. Forty years old and Suffolk-born, she has become
a familiar figure on the estate with her .410 gun and
Labrador. After spending 12 years in the Women's Land Army in East Suffolk, chiefly in dairy farming, Miss Squirrell took up gamekeeping about two years ago. A full-time under-keeper, she is rearing game, vermin killing and "brushing" on shooting days. She is training half-a-dozen gun dogs and prefers Labradors. "Up to the present, she has had no contact with poachers," says "The Gamekeepers' Gazette". But she shows no diffidence about venturing out at night On her beat at night, she is accompanied by her faithful Boxer dog as well as well her Labrador. She is very good at her job and loves every minute of it," said a colleague yesterday. "She does all the normal work of an under-keeper". |
Miss Squirrell, c.1960 (Photo: Bury Free Press) |
| From a newspaper cutting, Eastern Daily Press, 1957. | |
