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TO-DAY'S GOSSIP

... claimant, is crested and engraved. Cheltenham's Lead AS in other directions, Cheltenham is well ahead in the matter the digging for victory campaign. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. R. S. Hudson, this week appealed to local authorities throughout the country ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1249 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Letters to the Editor HOUSEHOLDERS MUST TACKLE FIRE-BOMBS NOTIFYING WARDENS' POST Sir, —Many people seem to ..

... and cultivating a plot of 16 rod on the Marie Hill Court site. I set out armed with a spade, anxious to do my bit of digging for victory, but it was not long before I discovered that I had the wrong tool. It was a pick and a mattock that I required. Having ...

Published: Tuesday 10 December 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1564 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RUSH FOR NEW ALLOTMENTS

... committee's expenditure. A local firm of booksellers, Mr. Leuchars went on, was arranging for a literature stall, and Dig for Victory film had been booked for the week. The sub-committee, said Mr. Leuchars, had already had 2,000 handbills printed at ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 655 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

... Parker, Mrs. Jones, 3 Mrs. Higgs. In a fancy dress parade, members voted for the allotting of prizes to Mrs. Higgs (Dig for Victory), 2 Mrs. Holloway (Gipsy Girl). Mrs. Fox (Roof Watcher) and Miss Miller ( Brittania ) was very close. The monthly ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1106 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MORE ONIONS

... MORE ONIONS MUNICIPAL NURSERIES PLAN BIG CROPS In the Dig for Victory campaign, big developments by municipal nurseries are expected next season. The onion will figure prominently in the plans of the country's park superintendents. In many localities ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

... Institute members. Mrs. R. Griffiths was elected chairman of the Garden Subcommittee, and the names of those willing to dig for victory were taken. An interesting talk on Music, by Mrs. Deakin, was much appreciated. .A short whist drive was held after ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 823 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ECHO AND CHRONICLE PREPAID RATES of advertisements of Private Sales, Wants, or Exchanges; Houses or ..

... Cheltenham. 2239 WANTED, strong working woman, 9-12; Christ Church district. Write 2237 Echo, Cheltenham. WANTED, someone to dig for victory in a lady's garden.—Newton. Cleeve Hill. 2221 A TARRIED couple, gardener-handy- Jl. man and cook-general, wanted for modern ...

Published: Thursday 30 January 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1019 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

£200 CHEQUE FOR CANON WESTMACOTT

... kindness by his Cirencester friends would be deeply valued by his wife and himself. Having mentioned that he was now digging for victory in his garden at Buckland, the Canon referred to the great contrast between the work of a busy parish like Cirencester ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Letters to the Editor GAS-MASK CULPRITS DESERVE TO DIE NO SECOND CHANCE ! Sir, —The query raised in your paper

... rates of pay, it makes one wonder why the gardener still has to exist on his small wage. We are told to dig for victory and save for victory. We can dig, but how save ? Many a gardener has to keep a wife and family on less than two pounds a week. When rent ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2347 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OVER 1,000 DIGGERS BUSY

... 1,000 DIGGERS BUSY 'PLOTTING' TO WIN AT CHELTENHAM An army of more than 1,000 Corporation allotment holders is now digging for victory in Cheltenham —ac- to a recent report forwarded to the National Allotments Association by the Town Clerk's Department ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 487 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

1 TO-DAY'S GOSSIP!

... Leuchars. In peace-time, Mr. Leuchars introduced almost every year some new plant to the town, but what with the war and digging for victory, this enterprise has had to be abandoned for the time being. While chatting with Mr. Leuchars, we asked him what was ...

Published: Tuesday 11 March 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1203 | Page: 4 | Tags: none