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CIVIC GROWING OF FOOD

... ground in Westburn Park is among plans made by Aberdeen Town Council Links and Parks Committee yesterday to help the Dig for Victory campaign. The Cleansing Department asked that the strip of ground, wfhich is at the north end of the park, be placed ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SMILING THROUGH

... SMILING THROUGH AII N.J\ -- ._ - ii, Really, dear, I don't think they'll expect you to Dig for Victory when the ground's frozen quite so hard. ...

Published: Thursday 30 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 27 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHERE ARE THEY?

... WHERE ARE THEY? THE paragraph in this column about the Dig for Victory campaign. in which a correspondent referred to a few bits of spare ground suitable centrally whioh are lying idle, prompted a telephone call to me at the week-end from Mr Young, ...

Published: Monday 24 February 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Any able-bodied man or woman who can obtain access to land and does not take advantage of that to grow

... citizenship and indifferent to winning the war, said Sir Robert. Last year in Scotland. despite a late start to the - Dig for Victory campaign. they nearly doubled the number of allotments in the country. The number was 40.000. What I want is 150.000 ...

Published: Tuesday 14 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BEATEN AGAIN

... BEATEN AGAIN ORGANISERS of last week's Dig for Victory campaign meeting in the city have received the thanks of Sir Robert Greig and others who accompanied him on his Grow More Food mission, for the arrangements they made. An attendance of 630 at the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PLOTS IN ABERDEEN PARKS?

... one or more of its city parks order to provide conveniently situated plots for the growing number of people eager to dig for victory. At present there are about 250 applicants to whom plots have not yet been allocated. While a certain amount of ground ...

Published: Friday 24 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Choppy Straits

... Choppy Straits The tools for the job The Dig for Victory campaign is in full swing. Here you will fini everything for the job: Garden Tools—all tax free—are meantime being specially featured. Our 48-Hour Lawn Mower Service is again in demand. Within ...

Published: Thursday 24 April 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VICTORY

... VICTORY MR R. S. HUDSON, Minister of Agriculture, launching the third Dig for Victory campaign of the war to-day, demanded the production of vegetables before the growth of flowers. He announced that, in order to meet the grcwing call for allotments ...

Published: Monday 29 September 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The Rambler

... night to have a eh:A with him. We ta!ked about a lot of things flowers. vegetables, and our hard-working plotholders and Dig for Victory gardeners. First the flowers. He told me that the Duthie Park greenhouses 'have a display just now of c..teraria, schizanthus ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRITAIN SHALL NOT BURN t ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY

... If you are thinking of taking a plot for next year now is the time to do it. Aberdeen people who are interested in the Dig for Victory campaign heard this advice yesterday from Mr G. E. Greenhowe, gardening expert at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FLOWERS MUST GO! PLEA TO NATION!

... PLEA TO NATION! More People Must Grow Own Vegetables iy/fR. R. S. HUDSON, Minister of Agriculture, launching the third Dig for Victory cami gn of the war yesterday, demanded the pro• :tion of vegetables before flowers. He announced that to meet the growing ...

Published: Tuesday 30 September 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 450 | Page: 4 | Tags: none