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THE FLOWER GARDEN

... vegetable plot to the more aesthetic flower garden' can now be permitted without bringing down the frowning eyes of the Dig for Victory campaigners upon the venturing individual. Biennial plants give a grand splash of colour for several months of the year ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1945
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DIARY

... effort. In the early dark days of the war, when the submarine was gravely threatening the nation's food supply, the Dig for Victory campaign was launched, and thousands of people who never handled a spade before joined the vast army of food producers ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1945
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PRIZE-WINNERS

... Most Patriotic Costumes —1. Misses Jean M'Allister. Jean Perry and Gwen Lyle (Victorious Allies); 2. Master Herbert Darragh and Master Stanley Patterson 'Dig for Victory); 3, Mrs. C. Millar (John BulH. Best Group —1, Miss P. Jolly and Partners (Big Three): ...

Published: Thursday 12 July 1945
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 198 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

8.8. C. Light Programme

... 15, Music-Makers B—laor Novell°, 2.45. The Robinson Family. To-day's episode. 3.0, Forces' Educational Broadcast. Dig for Victory. Then and Now, some aspects of the story of farming from the Nalodunic Wars to to-day. 3.20, Interlude. 3.30, Music ...

Published: Tuesday 18 September 1945
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PROTEST DEPUTATION

... cabbage. and he was only one of hundreds. They had produced thousands of pounds worth of foodstuffs in answer to the Dig-for-Victory Appeal. A large number of glass houses had been erected. Most of the plotholders were retired men and the plots were useful ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1945
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TRIBUTE TO ORGANISERS

... rationing and scarcity of commodities. During the war they were told to save all they could—money, paper, rags, bones, etc. Digging for victory was like one of the commandments, it set them to cultivate the fields that were allowed to be fallow, to bring into ...

Published: Thursday 13 September 1945
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

.PORTGLENONE

... (bridegroom); Miss Margaret Graham and Masters BiliV Steele and Tommy Frew (Moonlight Flit); Master Derek Montgomery (Digging for Victory): Miss Kathleen Graham (South Sea. Islander >: Miss Ann Leonard (Little Bo Peep): Miss Sheila Clarke (Home Industry); ...

Published: Friday 15 June 1945
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LIGHT PROGRAMME

... 40—Records. I.o—Leslie Bridgewater Quintet. 1.25—88 C Variety QOrchestra. 2.ls—Records. 2.45— “The Robinson Family.” 3.o—Dig for Victory.” 3.3o—Band of East Surrey Regiment. 4.o—Leslie Jeffries and Orchestra. 4.30—88 C Scottish Qrchestra. s.ls—Michael Krein ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHURCH CKRVIOO

... a.tn. and 7.0 p.m.i Kov. Robert Hyndman, B.A. BERRY STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. W. O. M. Martid, B.A. 11.30— *' Digging for Victory. 7 p.m.—A Good Soldior. AU Welcome. OUNCAIRN CHURCH 11.30 and o'clock: Rev. J. S. Wilson. B.D. ELMWOOD and FITZROY ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1945
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

k_ Larry's eyes are not giving out—he's only looking for what's left of Germany on a war map

... is a real domestic boon. Even the plotholder on ibis allotment finds it haunting and helping his brain power while he digs for victory. AND this is a secret I reluctantly disclose. There are those who actually do the cross-word puzzle in business hours ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1945
Newspaper: Ireland's Saturday Night
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1208 | Page: 1 | Tags: none