... PENTRICH SHOW The Marquis of Harlinglon opened Penlrich “Dig for Victory” and Horticultural Society's sixth annual show at Pentrich, near Ripley. on Saturday. More than 3,000 people attended, and though entries, which totalled about 500. were fewer than ...

... of price and quality ; and the Committee should organise a publicity campaign on allotments and gardens and get the Dig for Victory spirit back again . Mrs Dand asked that where British Restaur . ants had been closed they shouid be replaced by a civic ...

... GRANTHAM’S TWO-DAY SHOW Classes for gardeners schools and beeke :epers Started as the Dig for Victory” show during the last war, Grantham Horticultural Association's annual exhibition will be staged in the Guildhall next Friday and Saturday, when there ...

... greater efforts on the home production front. He said that the country had to face crisis after crisis and asked that the Dig for Victory spirit be brought back while the country's food products remained impoverished. There must be no waste and families should ...

... idle. Ten years ago they hit upon the idea of cultivating crops. When the war came they were among the pioneers of the dig for victory campaign. Potatoes and wheat are the chief crops, but a small quantity of oats and turnips are also grown. A small plot ...

... the Chairman is Mr. C. Z. Powke, has been held annually since the war, when it was organised in connection with the Dig for Victory campaigns to encourage amateur gardeners to make even greater efforts to ease the nation's food situation. The exhibition ...

... e. which had provided play ground for children in the area. During the war it was converted into allotments for the Dig for Victory campaign. | assumed that the pe'ition; was inquiring whether it could, be restored allotments again.; Coun. G. Kime moved ...

... manager four years ago. Mr. Epps took a very great interest in the welfare of horticulture and helped to inaugurate the Dig For Victory campaign in Tonbridge during the war. A bachelor, his hubbies were photography and gardening, but it was the latter ...

... fed, and although physical exercise is very important, food is more important still. During the war we were urged ta dig for victory. Householders sacrificed their lawns and gardens to grow vegetables. But the large fields north of the Gas Works Yard ...

... food situation had never been graver than at present, she said, and it was therefore of the utmost importanen that the Dig fer victory campaign should be continued with the greatest vigour. Everything must he done to induce people to grow more food if ...

... your family's you can't afford to do nothing, if you are ablehodied and can dig and plant and hoe. Many men--woman and children too—responded to the call to Dig for Victory and did a grand job of work throughout the war. They helped to win the vic, ...

... IT'S DIG FOR PLENTY NOW N. COTSWOLD CALL The call to gardeners and allotment holders which was so successful during the war in the Dig for Victory campaign is being revived in the North Cotswold area by a new Dig for Plenty competition announced ...