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

IT'S DIG FOR PLENTY NOW

... IT'S DIG FOR PLENTY NOW v c OTSWOLD'CALL call to gardeners t and holders which was so e ssful during the war W Dig for Victory camis being revived In the 1 Cotswold area by a new for Plenty competition •o>Unced by Mr. T. H. Fisher on Tues-0/ on the ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1947
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Sports Centres

... while using it: Similarly we could organise some form of sports week drive—having had savings drives, road safety drives, dig for victory drives and a dozen others. 'What a treasure is a wn- tented child I But if baby Is restless and fretful and can't settle ...

Published: Friday 09 May 1947
Newspaper: Holloway Press
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SECRETARY RESIGNS Horticultural Society social AFTER being secretary of the Berwick and district Horticultural ..

... purposes in mind. The ftrst v as to help the Red Cross and other local charities and to stimulate an inter, est in the dig for victory campaign. To date, over £3OO had been distributed. He said .they would all agree that starting as small society, there ...

Volunteers for Spade Work? ANY people may be surprised that food shortages, present and impending, sire not ..

... shortages, present and impending, sire not accompanied by a greater effort to induce people to grow more vegetables. The Dig for Victory campaign of the war years has no parallel to-day, although the need is equally urgent. Of more than ordinary interest ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1947
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PRESENTATION TO

... Society’s inception. He went to recall that the Society had been formed as an aid to the Red Cross and to further the “Dig for Victory Campaign. _ He believed that the energetic wo* Mtddlemiasj assisted by Mrs Middlemiss, had largely contributed to die ...

Published: Thursday 27 March 1947
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Page Hail WEST HARTLEPOOL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1947. TELEPHONE xii lines). The National Larder there are some ..

... small measure the nation’s impoverished larder. While the raiders crossed the coast each night during the war and the ' Dig for Victory posters appeared on every hoarding, life was perhaps more dangerous but hardly uore stringent than it is to-day. At the ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1947
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

O.A.P. ALLOTMENT HOLDERS

... holders a big thump that has raised a big bump, something like a 50 per cent, rise in our rent. We have been told to Dig for Victory. Now, digging is 'hard work and the extra rent is going to make it half as hard again. My allotment is on the Dogsthorpe Estate ...

Published: Friday 14 March 1947
Newspaper: Peterborough Standard
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: | Words: 273 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ALL THE YEAR ROUND

... particularly if he can rely on the help of the housewife the way of preserving and storing the valuable food thus grown. The Dig for Victory leaflet No. 1, issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, sets out comprehensive plan for the all-the-year-round production ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1947
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 330 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

About West London Watchman

... November and December, IMS. The Public Libraries Committee succeeded «In obtaining the following paintings: “The N.F.S. Dig for Victory St. James's Square.” bv ah«. Allison; ” Dismantling gency water Unit.” by Heorr Carr; Collecting firewood to bombed Pimlico ...

WE BEG TO DIFFER

... There are none at season? speedway and never will The response during the war As a regular Don supporter years to the Dig for Victory I think speedway is full of un- campaigns was magnificent, but expected thrills from start to the exceptionally severe ...

Published: Friday 02 May 1947
Newspaper: South Western Star
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Plant Small Fruit in the Garden

... Plant Small Fruit in the Garden FOOD FRONT TN the Dig for Victory * leaflet No. 22 it is suggested that where there is spare space every garden should have some small fruit, for they are easy to grow and are valuable sources of the necessary vitamin ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1947
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 831 | Page: 5 | Tags: none