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By royal appointment - Gwen Amis, publican of the Norfolk Broads; always taught to give - Edith Windibank, pillar of the church and Women's Institute of Hampshire and Sussex; game for anything - Doris Winchester, gamekeeper's wife of Sussex, Essex and Berkshire; backwoods education - Mary Dowlman and Mary Dollin, gamekeepers' daughters of Lincolnshire, Hampshire and Dorset; a very determined lady - Jeanne Robinson, farmer of coastal Essex; storybook life - Olive Markham, writer, smallholder and rights campaigner of Sussex; hops without beer - Mildred Cooper, hop farmer of Worcestershire; soaked, frozen and scorched - Irene Conley, Margaret Hudson and Mary Kingswood, hop pickers of Surrey, Worcestershire and Kent; blood, sweat and tears - Peggy Spreadbury, farmworker and village stalwart of Hampshire; the egg lady - Agnes Jones of Herefordshire; always there - Heather Wood, shepherdess of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire; from steam engines to jet engines - Lady Dorothy Longley, record-breaking diarist of Surrey and Sussex; unsung heroines - Mary Shelton, Peggy Simpkins, Patricia Hodder and Joan Abbot, land girls of Somerset, Wiltshire, Kent, Dorset, Sussex, Surrey and Essex; on Irish farms - Helen Copethorn, Evelyn Rea, Lena Hughes, Margaret Bedford and Josephine Silcock of Cork, Fermanagh, Westmeath, Tipperary and Kerry; beyond living memory.