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... 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, ...

Soldiers Digging for Victory: Valuable food production from lands and estates occupied by troops

... Soldiers Digging for Victory Valuable food production from lands and estates occupied by troops THE sight of derelict gardens and estates, neglected through war conditions and rapidly becoming nothing more than wildernesses, has been a sad sight both ...

WHATEVER YOUR WORK: ALL-PURPOSE SUITS AND GARDENING ACCESSORIES

... designed for wartime wardrobes, and would be excellent for travelling, worn with a tweed topcoat from the same house. DIGGING for Victory is not always very comfortable, but Selfridges, Oxford Street, soften the strain with their gardening apron and cushion ...

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 ...

Are There Still Too Many Dogs?

... Are There Stil! Too Many Dogs? Asks A. Croxton Smith WE are exhorted to dig for victory, produce for victory, and, one might add, we can also save for victory. I do not mean in the sense that we should put money into one of the several Government securities ...

BRAINS as well as BRAWN

... well as BRAWN [By Ourj Horticultural Correspondent DIG for victory is now a pretty well worn slogan. I am in complete agree ment with the Editor when he suggests that we might do more thinking for victory. There is plenty of room for it in connection with ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... Admiralty to teach the tars. MISS ETHEL GERARD for taking the Board of Agriculture literally with a very model way of digging for victory. TH LANCING WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICE-- for being Mother Hubbards with well-stocked cupboards. CADET TONY SUTTON, of ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 463 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

FORCES PROGRAMME SINGER NO 1

... I VERA LYNN'S fan mail is a problem. She gets over a hundred letters a week from admirers at home and abroad. Left Digging for victory Vera finds time to plant cabbage seed in her garden at Barking. 44 All my own work Vera Lynn with some of the records ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

Week- End Cottage Into Market Garden

... for London. Recently the girls inserted this advertisement in the Personal column of The Times 44 Three smart girls digging for victory, require small utility van for delivering fruits and vegetables loan, buy cheaply or exchange for Morris Eight. If ...

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 

Friends of Food Production

... the furred and feathered creatures of the countryside, so, from the same fraternity, come our greatest allies in our dig for victory campaign. Foremost among these are stoats and weasels whose continual onslaughts on such destructive rodents as rabbits ...

Published: Tuesday 01 July 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1062 | Page: 64 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire: Digging for Victory

... -/4 H By Sabretache Digging for Victory THERE may be nothing in it; but, on the other hand, there may, and it is certain that a neurotic like Herr Hitler will believe that there is. Almost synchronously with the start of his Russian grab, some scientists ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1854 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs