A DISGRACE

... opponents wanted more playing fields, but he (Mr Borton) believed in a sense of proportion. They were still being asked to dig for victory, and he did not think the present was the time to advocate playing pens for little toddlers on the beach. The ratepayers' ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1947
Newspaper: Eastbourne Herald
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

RELATIVES IN COURT HOUSE SOUGHT FROM BROTHER-IX-LAW

... quite comfortable, but some of the chairs were gone underneath. He spent hours on the garden and also cut the turf to dig for victory. The fruit garden had greatly improved, when be saw it three months after Miss Swiss rented .• A Dainty Hass Giving ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1947
Newspaper: Eastbourne Chronicle
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Dig To Live

... more pigs. It is not all of us who can keep pigs, but certainly all of us can grow potatoes. If Dig for Victory were essential in the war years, dig to live is the fact to-day. By our own efforts we can ameliorate austerity in food, and it is the ...

Published: Tuesday 12 August 1947
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUR GARDENING EXPERT SAYS- Plan your next crops on paper

... information regarding this subject, write to the Ministry of Agriculture, Lytham-St.-Anne's, Lanes, for a free copy of Dig for Victory Leaflet No. 1, and study it carefully in conjunction with your own plan. When you have made up your mind on _ the plan ...

Published: Tuesday 11 November 1947
Newspaper: Reveille
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 436 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BOOK NOTES

... 6d). It is full of _practical and helpful suggestions. Those who go in for growing vegetables and flowers or wish to dig for victory will find useful hints in this informative and illuminating book. WINDSOR. Scottish references are included in Tan Mums ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1947
Newspaper: Leven Mail
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 359 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOME AMENITIES

... almost changed tlie slogan from dig for victory dig for survival, yet are downliearted We are all optimistic about the sun. Housewives are planning their Spring cleaning. Turning everything inside out. Husbands are digging ami turning everything upside ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1947
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SUNDAY DESECRATION

... advanced, age, it seems man does all this himself, without observing the Almighty Hand. During the war years, the call, “Dig for Victory,” caused many a manual worker to feel abased, when, on a peaceful Sabbath morning, people passed by going to worship — ...

Published: Friday 11 April 1947
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Challenge For Harvest

... displayed. Plainly, for production every available hand and machine must be mobilised and the spirit of the wartime Dig for Victory campaigns recaptured. To give him his due, Mr Williams seems to have grasped the situation pretty thoroughly and work ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1947
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DISPOSSESSION OF FOOD PRODUCERS

... building, but in the past have had singulittle consideration, A new •J al was promised them, how*Vpr, under the “Dig for Victory” mRI “Dig for Plenty” campaigns, allotment-holders as a class be well-advised to do all they to see that they get their mbmised ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1947
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 388 | Page: 5 | 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

NEWS SNIPPITS

... demonstrations to gardeners' societies and to the Forces. He was also horticultural adviser to the Tonbridge area in the Dig for Victory campaign. Mr. Reeves is one of those men (alas, there are too few of them these days) whose heart is in his work. It ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1947
Newspaper: Tonbridge Free Press
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 2 | Tags: none