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LESS AUSTERITY

... LESS AUSTERITY In the days of dig for victory during the war the seedsmen were called on almost entirely to supply vegetable plants and see&. Now. gardeners are paying more attention to flowers—they are buying, sweet-peas as well as swedes, campanulas ...

Published: Friday 25 April 1947
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 77 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Warning of winter potato queues

... afford too much leisure. DIG FOR SURVIVAL It is worse to-day than it has ever been In 1939 we were asked to dig for victory in 1945 we were told dig for plenty': to-day I'll coin a phrase and ask you in all seriousness to ' dig for ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1947
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MINISTRY CHOOSE CEMETERY SITE FOR OPEN - CAST COAL SEARCH IS there open-cast coal at Bedworth? The Ministry of ..

... been appointed Allotments Officer to Croydon County Borough. Mr. Willes, who was concerned with the organisation of Dig for Victory shows and in control of the Corporation's demonstration plots, was well known to Coventry allotment holders ; for his ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1947
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 512 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Leamington College building in Binawood Avenue

... [reasonably plentiful. Prices have not advanced to any great extent over those of last year. LESS AUSTERITY In the days of dig for victory during the war the seedsmen were called on almost entirely to supply vegetable plants and seeds. Now, gardeners are paying ...

Published: Friday 25 April 1947
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 818 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Sari yi Ma Madam of harperi

... underground weeks ago. Nowadays it is most important that gardeners obey the appeal displayed on many wartime posters. Dig for Victory. Every vegetable grown will play its part to alleviate the food shortage which threatens us. So it rests every home gardener ...

Published: Friday 21 March 1947
Newspaper: Midland Counties Tribune
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1325 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

H. SAMUEL

... (Castleßromwich) extent over those of last year. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Public admission 2/6 daily. LESS AUSTERITY In the days of dig for victory during the war the seedsmen were called on almost entirely to supply vegetable pleats and Now. gardenersare paying more ...

Published: Friday 25 April 1947
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1537 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

New Year’s Honours

... astounding results, the total amount raised being in the neighbourhood of £50,000. w 4 Mr. Freeman Joined whole-heartedly the Dig for Victory campaign, too; to listen to him in the Common Room Is to realise that he has mastered the finer points his art; and if ...

VILLAGE SHOW ON STH FLOOR HIGH above the traffic, on the re-furbished hfth floor in Lewis's Stores, Birmingham, ..

... the serious men in cloth caps and faded trilbys, considering the cauliflowers, pondering the potatoes. With years of digging for victory behind them they had the earne4. exclusive air of the real gardener. There were 1,700 en:ries in 126 sections—an increase ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1947
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 427 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOME HINTS Treating That “Ugly Duckling ” of a Room

... wondering what it is you hate so much about that room the north side of the house! Nature Notes Signs Of New Life AFTER digging for victory our garden during the pa6t week seven, small tor caterpi. o* i..e Garden Tiger moth varie.y crawling hurriedly, after ...

EVENING DISPATCH TUESDAY JULY 1947 Gazette Buildings B'ham B’ham Central lines) On the file Examinations HAVE ..

... your while IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ALL THESE-ITEMS DESPATCH MAN’S DIARY ALLOTMENTS MAY COST MORE-BUT BETTER SUPERVISION DIGGING for victory needful in war looks like more I understand that a proposal will come before Birmingham City Council next Tuesday for ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1947
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4916 | Page: 3 | Tags: none