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TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

... to 17, will be £1,000,000. The week will be opened by Capt. Porteous, the Commando V.C. hero of the raid on Dieppe. Dig for Victory Exhibition. Competitors in the Spring Flower Show connected with next week's E hibition are requested to send in their ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1944
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

... Cannell, 60; P.S. Bishop and P.C. Drinkwater, 60, Messrs. Manners and Scott, 46. DIG FOR VICTORY At a preliminary meeting the Executive Committee of the Dig For Victory Exhibition to be held at the Town Hall during the last week of March, Councillor ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1945
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 859 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHRIST IN OUR GARDENS

... Easter in war-time is even more important for the gardener. Instead of a holiday or a trip in a motor-coach, he ■will dig for victory, and plant i for prosperity. Strange things may happen in gardens, especially in the cool of eventide: A garden is a ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1942
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF MR. A. J.MATTHEWS FINE SERVICES TO CIRENCESTER The Echo regrets to record to death of Mr. Arthur J

... town in regard to ite water supply at the Baunton water works had his hearty support. He was most enthusiastic in the Dig for Victory campaign, and was elected chairman of the Allotments Committee. He had been a Justice of Peace for the county for several ...

Published: Tuesday 08 July 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 385 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HOME FOOD CLUBS

... importance of food production wasF given in the Tewkesbury Town Hall on Thursday evening, under the auspices of the National Dig For Victory campaign. The speaker, Mr. G. H. Castle (of the Gloucestershire pome Food Production Society) stressed the need for greater ...

Published: Friday 01 November 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 368 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TWO BOTTLES OF WHISKY REALISE £1,650

... £48, pair small crown Derby vases with lids £16, oak smoker's cabinet £106, Sheffield plated tankard £105, garden fork (Dig for Victory) £49, one cockerel £20. WHIST PRIZE WINNERS The second whist drive in connection with the Warship Week was held in the ...

Published: Monday 16 March 1942
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HARVEST FESTIVAL SERVICES

... flowers and vegetables at the church on Sunday for the harvest festival services afforded ample proof of the successful Dig for Victory efforts on the part of members of the Fellowship of St. Paul's (Cheltenham). The festival commenced with a celebration ...

Published: Monday 22 September 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 411 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Miss Arden's representative will be Ijere THIS WEEK OCTOBER 13th-18th For treatment to keep you lovely, now ..

... children, as well as men, are sensible enough to Dig for Victory now, you can have me ALL THE YEAR ROUND for only the cost of a packet of seeds . . . YOU SEE, I AM ONE OF THOSE CROPS YOU CAN STORE Dg FOR VICTORY IU NOW! POST THIS COUPON NOW (Unsealed envelope ...

Published: Monday 13 October 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 369 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FOOD WARNING

... figures are full of encouragement, for they show that the British people have entered thoroughly into the spirit of the Dig for -Victory campaigns, doubling the number of allotments and putting two more private gardens into cultivation of vegetables instead ...

Published: Friday 18 June 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 413 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WARTIME GARDENING NO. 4 Potatoes for storing should go in now Next winter you will have to rely fertiliser the

... REMINDERS own. The Ministry of Agricul- T turc's Dig for Victory Leaflet Np. 1 y °ur ground wready,sow helps you to help yourself. Time test is short, but it is still not too late ran three further to dig up your garden or get an The . sc and r fur allotment ...

Published: Tuesday 28 April 1942
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 361 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RAIL TRANSPORT is Half the Rattle ' WAGONS loaded with WAR FREIGHTS run 10 MILLION ™ Vr MILES every day

... the coupon below at once. To Ministry of Agriculture (Dept. W.D.0.) Hotel Lindum, St. Anne'S-on-Sea, Lanes. Please send Dig for Victory Leaflet No. 20 and' Cropping Plan' Address Issued by the Ministry of Information Space presented to the Nation by the ...

Published: Tuesday 18 January 1944
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 363 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

What do fit! SHE about allotment or garden ? I grow crops for winter as well as for summer. I

... What do fit! SHE about allotment or garden ? I grow crops for winter as well as for summer. I get the following free dig for victory leaflets by filling in this coupon and sending it to-The Ministry of Agriculture, Lindum Hotel, St. Anne's-on-Sea, Lanes ...

Published: Tuesday 29 April 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 355 | Page: 3 | Tags: none