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PIGS TO BE RAISED ON CIVIC “FARM”

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 10 December 1947
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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

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

Dtortjjttn §ailg Pail

... who have not already decided that this season they will grow more for the kitchen than they did at the height of the Dig for Victory campaigns of the war. Next winter is already in our thoughts. A farmer was asked yesterday when he thought the weather ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1947
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Calvary—the Triumph of Sacrifice

... to be enjoyed with all its attractions of the countryside, a variety of sport, and the healthy, useful pleasures of digging for victory' the new struggle for national survival and mode.st prosperity. The Bevin Rumour riIHOUGH Sir Stafford Cripps I i advised ...