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What do fit! SHE about allotment or garden ? I grow crops for winter as well as for summer. I

... What do fit! SHE about allotment or garden ? I grow crops for winter as well as for summer. I get the following free dig for victory leaflets by filling in this coupon and sending it to-The Ministry of Agriculture, Lindum Hotel, St. Anne's-on-Sea, Lanes ...

Published: Tuesday 29 April 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 355 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PAPER CUTS

... them) will no longer fill our letter-boxes, except those catalogues of the seedsmen that tell us what to sow in our dig for victory campaign and of books to make us think. Eut there are many provisions that will hit everybody and hit them everywhere ...

Published: Wednesday 12 November 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SWINDON'S BIG SAVINGS EFFORT

... there were so many clever and well-made costumes. The winners were: 1 Oriel Heath (Post Office), 2 Josephine Godwin (Dig for Victory). 3 Jean Ho-r/es (Savings Certiflcates) Mrs. Hanna won the first prize in the flower arrangement competition, with Miss ...

Published: Monday 28 July 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

INCREASE IN RATE

... the area effort for the National Air-raid Distress Fund had brought the satisfactory sum of £740. In reference to the Dig for Victory campaign, 203 new allotments had been put in hand. Mr. Tovey said that some allotments were being cultivated by certain ...

Published: Friday 25 April 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 597 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

... Testimony Meetings, Wednesday at 7.0 p.m. SHOW OF GARDEN PRODUCE Many of the Echo staff are enthusiasts in the Dig for Victory campaign, and are having a display of various produce in the Commercial Offices to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon. Accomodation ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 546 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SALVAGE EFFORT

... damage being caused on the Chesterton Housing Estate by dogs trespassing on garden plots being cultivated under the Dig for Victory campaign. As a letter sent to the tenants, inviting their co-operation in the matter, had not had the desired effect ...

Published: Friday 30 May 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 607 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

RUSH FOR NEW ALLOTMENTS

... committee's expenditure. A local firm of booksellers, Mr. Leuchars went on, was arranging for a literature stall, and Dig for Victory film had been booked for the week. The sub-committee, said Mr. Leuchars, had already had 2,000 handbills printed at ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 655 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

£115,212 FINAL FIGURE

... Leach and Coin); 2, Cyril Powell Smith (Shepherd Boy and Lamb); consolations, Peter Marsh (Uncle Sam), Joan Wetherell (Dig for Victory). Decorated bicycle: 1, Jill Westmacott; 2, Joe Dere; consolations, John and Trevor Arthurs, Hugh Willis, Ray Powell. ...

Published: Monday 09 June 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

... Institute members. Mrs. R. Griffiths was elected chairman of the Garden Subcommittee, and the names of those willing to dig for victory were taken. An interesting talk on Music, by Mrs. Deakin, was much appreciated. .A short whist drive was held after ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 823 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WOMEN'S PART IN CAMPAIGN

... Adviser Food Production things are being asked of women. Great work is being accomplished by them. In the appeals to dig for victory we have heard the reiteia-, ted statement that possibly a child may say I am hungry. This can only happen if we ourselves ...

Published: Thursday 10 April 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 869 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Letters to the Editor GAS-MASK CULPRITS DESERVE TO DIE NO SECOND CHANCE ! Sir, —The query raised in your paper

... rates of pay, it makes one wonder why the gardener still has to exist on his small wage. We are told to dig for victory and save for victory. We can dig, but how save ? Many a gardener has to keep a wife and family on less than two pounds a week. When rent ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2347 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FOOD DRIVE IN FULL SWING

... the claim that the area is completely self-supporting as far vegetables are concerned. Apart from the enthusiasm and Dig for Victory will of the people there, much of the success is due to the efforts of the Increased Food Production Committee, which ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1941
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1189 | Page: 3 | Tags: none