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Up and Down the Land

... BERKHAMSTED CHALLENGE A Garden Goes to War, the colour film made by Plant Protection, Ltd., to instruct beginners on digging for victory, was shown one night in January in seven towns simultaneously Aberdeen, Bath, Bournemouth, Buckingham, Darlington, ...

BOMBING OR--BOREDOM?: The Work of London's Ambulance-Drivers During, and Since, the Great Blitz

... recrea tion facilities in the form of dances, billiards and table-tennis are provided, as well as a certain amount of digging for victory in the immediate neighbourhood of the ambulance station. In any event, the absence of charwomen and the shortage of ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1378 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Out on the Hills

... Progress is not without interrup tions, for the company of a good- looking dog admits one to a wide freemasonry. The man digging for victory on his allotment is an old friend, although I do not know his name nor he mine. I stop to ask how his potatoes yielded ...

Mary Young's FINDINGS far your KEEPINGS

... 6d. liquid, 2s. fid. Feet have surely never worked so hard as now. March ing, standing over lathe or army cook pot, digging for victory or just carrying on .with the daily duties that keep our home fires burning. All of this means that it is essential ...

Published: Sunday 01 September 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 963 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

Motoring and War Work

... giving it as good protection as possible. AS LONG AS ORCHESTRAS are allowed, musicians are playing ah essential part. DIGGING FOR VICTORY the soundest and truest of all wartime slogans. ...

Autumn Treatment of Tired Soil

... lowering of standards cannot be ascribed to lack of enthusiasm on the part of growers in general those who became weary of digging for victory gave up gardening long ago but it is possible that it can be accounted for in another way. In recent years much has ...

Women's Golf: Bring Out the Blaster

... plenty of lessons. But note he also patrols a beat as a War Reserve policeman and spends what little time is over in digging for victory, with notable success, to judge from the splendour of these vegetables and in pig breeding Henry Cotton twice British ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1363 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

HOLIDAY AT HOME

... during the last twelve months, stop doing it during your holiday. Or, anyway, stop it as far as you can. Gardeners stop digging for victory. Travellers stop at home. Stay-puts get out of the house. Fuss-pots stop fussing. Lazybones, shake a leg. Whatever your ...

Published: Tuesday 01 July 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1384 | Page: 64 | Tags: Photographs 

Small War Time Savings on the Farm

... be Every little helps. L. F. Newman. o Digging for Victory Farmers-to-be are learning their trade, some times under expert supervision, sometimes by trial and error but they keep on trying. Breeding for Victory Bonhall village, near Ipswich, specialises ...

A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 135

... to rejoin their own squadrons, have not yet been called back, but await the summons,, and the day. There is time for digging for victory on aerodrome potato' patches, and other supernumeraiy duties, and even time for whistling for a job. For six months ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1998 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HOME FRONT: The Tatler in Town and Country; Vive La France!

... Deacon. In normal seasons they would be watching every polo match with expert knowledge of the game, but now they are digging for victory, and have the largest cabbage-patch in Luckington, where their neighbours include Mrs. Cator and her sister, Mrs. Dundas ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1873 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs