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Dig for Victory Winners

... Dig for Victory Winners ALEWISHAM policeman, Mr. E. Holness, won first prize in London's Dig for Victory allotment contest. The com petition, organised by the Ministry of Agriculture, had the full support of Mr. J. P. Mitchelhill and Mr. Bertie Browne ...

WARTIME GARDENING

... in the rain. The shirt is in crepe lisle, hard-wearing and easy to wash, and costs 10s. nd. in various pastel colours. DIG for victory in these workmanlike dungarees from Harrods, Knightsbridge. In navy flannel, designed for hard work, they cost 45s. yd ...

A Perfect Plot

... idea of its perfection and explain why crowds come out each week-end to look at it. The plot is certainly a national Dig for Victory advertisement, and has already inspired hundreds to play their own part in the Grow More Food campaign. From the business ...

BRITAIN in WAR-TIME: Three Graphic Pictures

... women hard at work planting out their allotments, for many of these open spaces have now been dug up in the nation-wide Dig for Victory campaign. Here is a typical Sunday morning I scene on Clapham Common, showing the allotmenteers hard at work on their ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HIGHWAY OF FASHION

... them 011 a plane apart. These salons are practicalK the home of the slogan scarf, among them being Happy Landing and Dig for Victory. By the way. the entire trousseau may lie acquired here ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 295 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

Ship Shape

... Air Arm has inherited that taste from its parent Service. The Arm has extensive land stations, and on many of these the Dig for Victory campaign has been taken up with great enthusiasm by the personnel. On the station in Southern England shown in these pictures ...

Tomatoes Instead of Ryde Rock

... Tomatoes Instead of Ryde Rock A YEAR ago in the Isle of Wight, the Borough of Ryde decided to help substantially in the Dig for Victory Campaign, and help themselves and the Island at one and the same time. A site was chosen on waste land in a sheltered ...

A Plot is Hatched in Birmingham

... system. Mrs. Hudson, who was one of the ladies, dug a shining spade into a spit of turf, made a speech and inaugurated the Dig for Victory Campaign, Part II. Famous Miss Taver stood by her side. Part I was initiated soon after September, 1939. Worthy citizens ...

Thinking for Victory

... first time since the war, the Ministry of Agriculture in other words, -the Government have picked up their baby-- the DIG FOR VICTORY organisation and have shown it to the people as the emblem and weapon of the coming offensive. The campaign, carefully ...

A Crooner's Day: Evelyn Dall at Home and at Work

... has Evelyn knitting for victory while she waits, suitably attired, to exhort the audience to dig for ditto Dig, sings Evelyn, ravishing as a lady-gardener and backed by a chorus of gentlemen-gardeners dig, dig, ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs