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... the Digging for victory campaign, which reminds me that the Post Office could be a bit more careful. It is always unpleasant to receive a letter contained in a black-edged envelope but when the Post Office cancels the stamp with the slogan •• Dig for ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A BUMPER HARVEST Farmers Urged to Plough Up Poor Grass Land

... Up Poor Grass Land While allotment-holders and gardeners are being urged to dig for victory the Government are particularly anxious that farmers should plough for victory.** In this district there are hundreds of acres of poor gross land which will ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... lads in their effort to dig for victory. Each plot is being cultivated by one senior and one junior boy, and until the thick grass has disappeared from view they will find the job really hard work. Personally I do not advise digging in the grass at this ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

(REGULATION 428) SUNDAY OPENINO OF CINEMAS

... south. Mr. Chambers retires, but he will not be idle; he was always an enthusiastic gardener and he will now be able to dig for victory * • In 1799 the door of the first savings bank in the United Kingdom was opened in the vestry of the parish church ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 849 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Digging For Victory

... Digging For Victory It was reported that the Health Committee had approved of the four acres of Isnd at tha Sewage Punt being used as war allo:ments, and that security of tenure could be granted for seven years without the sanction of the Minister. The ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... additional cost was caused by an alteration in the position of the house oil the site, and an increase in workmen's wages. Digging For Victory * * The Notts. Education Committee on Tuesday agreed that a garden plot be rented tor the use of the Arnold Council ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... blisters on my hands! The heaviest garden tool I have handled for years until recently has been a trowel, but now I'm digging for victory. I have commented several times of lack of civility and anomalies in connection with bus services, and I think things ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ARCHIPS WAR COMMUNIQUE—No. 27. Why does a certain section leader place tan men la front and the men behind? Was

... fray sanewhere in France. Gardeners and allotment-holders were busy digging for victory during the holidays. A number of experts planted their first early potatoes. Amateurs at digging quickly had . . . _ _ blisters on their ha - usils, and never relished ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 4 | Tags: none