OPENING CEREMONY,

... -confront them in a garden. The greatest need, however, just now was to dig for victory, and he hoped by another year it would not be a case of digging for victory but digging for peace so as to assist the country to feed the starving ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1944
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 755 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Gardeners O St Leonard’s

... city had obtained the lease of a portion of the Nelson estate at Salisbury Green for the purpose of speeding up the “Dig for Victory” campaign of that period, there was an immediate response. Soon | proof was forthcoming that St Leonard’s, the most heavily ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1944
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GELSTON NONAGENARIAN'S DEATH

... Andy Boss (Tank), Mrs M'Cailie and Miss K. Gordon (nurse and wounded soldier), Agnes Millar (Jap.), Reynold Wilson (dig for victory), Joan Kirkpatrick (blossomtime), Derek Hvslop (toy soklier), Morag Collins (Mary, Mary Quite Contrary), John Wallis (Xmas ...

Rural Institutes

... that many men and women outside W.R.I. circles will avail themselves of this opportunity for specialised guidance in the Dig for Victory campaign. Next week, on successive days from Monday to Friday, the following places will be visited in order; Kirkconnel ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1944
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TESTIMONIAL

... 61 High Street, PEEBLES. Sole Agent In Hawick and District; Messrs THE SWEATER COY., 18 High Street, HAWICK. DIG FOR VICTORY. LEARMONTS Victory Seed Collection. Packet ot PEAS, Early. BEANS, Broad. BEET, Round. LEEK, Musselourgtk ONION PARSLEY. CARROT ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1944
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 144 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OXTON

... —1, James Vickers, Shepherd; 2, lan Oliver; Pirate; 3, Edna Borthwick, Norwegian Girl. Most original—l, Jenny Stuart. Dig for Victory; 2, David Scott, No More Strikes; 3, David I7eir, Rabbit. Best pair—Michael and Patricia McQueen, D-Day and V- Day. All ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1944
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MORE FLYING BOMBS Many Shot Down in Sea HOSPITAL WRECKED BOMBARDMENT OF LONDOA

... get breakfast and was unhurt . Canteen Service for Homeless Col . J . J . Liewehin , Food Minister , taking part in a Dig for Victory campaign at Usk , Monmouthshire , yesterday , said : London has for almost two months been under the strain of what ...

Published: Tuesday 08 August 1944
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 362 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BODDAM

... Dress Parade, judged by Rev. Mr and Mrs Currie. The following were the prizewinners:— Most Original — Norma McCormack (“Dig for Victory’), Nan Ritchie (A Minstrel). Best Dressed— Rosalind Jamieson (Britannia), Margaret Cordiner (“Granny”), Clara Firth ( ...

NO APPLES FOR WORKERS

... NO APPLES FOR WORKERS “ M. H.” writes : We are asked to dig for victory and grow all we can for ourselves. What is the reward? All summer we got no fruit and no tomatoes from the shops, and now we get no Canadian app?es because we are not re_lgular buyers ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1944
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

■■.V.ASV.VAVV.VV%%V. LADIES' ■: RAINCOATS ;.TO DEFY THE WEATHER a April showers are sudden and sharp. ■ ji ..

... Closed Perth Monday, 10th Only. DUNDEE AND PERTH. J, DIG FOR VICTORY NOW WITH PHINS CORONA GARDENING SET SIX FULL-SIZE TOOLS. THE SET COMPRISES:— 1 CRUTCH-HANDLED SPADE. 1 BOX-HANDLED 4PRONG DIGGING FORK. 12-TOOTH-H ANDLED MALLEABLE STEEL RAKE. 1 HANDLED ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1944
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 206 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

1 ES I'l MON lAL,

... PEEBLES. Sole Agent Uawlck and District: Messrs THE SWEATER COY., 18 High Street, HAWICK. DIG FOR VICTORY. KENNEDY’S SEEDS, TESTED AND RELIABLE. Special Olfei our VICTORY COLLECTION OF SEEDS, Value 4/-, containing: Peas (Early), Beans (Longpod), Leek (Musselburgh ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1944
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 191 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WIVES TO RUN

... WIVES TO RUN THE PLOTS WIVES of Aberdeen men on service will play big part in the city's 1944 Dig for Victory effort. They will cultivate the plots which their husbands worked before they were called up for military service. In carrying on the women will ...

Published: Tuesday 25 January 1944
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 4 | Tags: none