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GARDENING AND FLORISTS

... GARDENING AND FLORISTS. DIG for victory, then bring the family to enjoy RETURN TO YESTERDAY and ' LAUGH IT OFF'' at the Odeon. SALE. 2-3 TONS BRAMLEYS and NEWTON APPLES, clean, sound fruit. —Ferris Ellis. Houndspool, Dawlish. Granular peat, cwt. ; Hydrated ...

Published: Monday 04 March 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 81 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

had their opportunity for display.”

... display.” Of Interest, I think, the present generation of gardening devotees, who are much more numerous these earnest Dig for Victory” days than they were the placid first years the 20th century, Is the remark. this Womanland column of 1003, that ** Despite ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHRIBTADELPHIAN ADDRESS

... Oddfellows' Hall, Catherine St. (Nr. Cathedral), Sunday, (.10 p.m. EXMOUTH ECHOES Several people have commenced to ** dig for victory the plougl ed-up land Pheac Park. They have an example in the war afforts of Mr. W. Arnold, whose front garden at 92. ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 146 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BLIND GARDENER

... Manchester. has cultivated such a fine allotment that he has been awarded the Minister of Agriculture's dig for victory diploma. With uncanny skill he digs his plot, tends the plants, keeps the land free of weeds, and wheels home his own produce. It was Special ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 137 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... the City Marshal, who has figured in no less than 18 such tours. There are signs on all hands that Exeter has begun to dig for victory.” Both on allotments and in private gardens citizens are busily at work preparing to increase the nation’s food supply ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 204 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

DEVON’S VEGETABLE GLUT

... Sparrow at yesterday’s meeting, at Exeter, of Devon Agricultural Committee. He said that 12 months ago they were urged to “dig for victory. but now in his area school gardens, allotments, and other plots were full of vegetables which could not be disposed ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 224 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE POCKET TRACTOR

... building estate off Rosebarn-lane yesterday afternoon a group of interested spectators was watching a lively and efficient Dig for victory machine plough up virgin soil with an expedition that would have rejoiced the heart of any allotment-holder attacking ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 226 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... of drowning. One such incident took place at Blackpool, another off Plymouth Pier, and the third at Teignmouth. » The “Dig for victory” campaign has brought into productive use a small plot of ground at Exeter which in all probablity had not been cultivated ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DR. SCHACHT Occurring at an early date. Eastertide brought a welcome break to Exonians. There was fuU ..

... EASTER BREAK Allotment Holders Spend Holiday Digging For Victory between Exeter and the United Servioet were among the holiday attractions. One marked feature of the period an intensification of the M Dig for Victory” movement Allotment-holders and garden-owners ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 317 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SALTERTON COUNCIL AFFAIRS

... ground at Frewins being neglected, and thought this should not be allowed at time when the country appealed to them to “dig for victory. The Surveyor (Mr. J. B. Holden) said the trouble was that the allotments were too far from the town and there was a ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 390 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EXETER 8.8. BOYS ARE DIGGING FOR VICTORY By now members of the Boys’ Brigade arc giving a good account of

... EXETER 8.8. BOYS ARE DIGGING FOR VICTORY By now members of the Boys’ Brigade arc giving a good account of themselves In all the Services—Navy, Army, Air Force, and Merchant Service. The latest news I have is that old 8.8. boy was among the prisoners in ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 398 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GERMANY SHORT OF DOCTORS

... by bombs. WILL - DIG FOR VICTORY TOO Anti-Aircraft Detachments Plans for the Spring Many thousands of men iif the isolated anti-aircraft and other detachments now at their war stations throughout the Eastern Command will “dig for victory this spring. Ground ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 893 | Page: 1 | Tags: none