OPENING CEREMONY

... the Association continued success and commended its objects, remarking that during the war they' had been requested to dig for victory and that the effort was just as vital now in view of the country's economical difficulties. As gardeners, they could render ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1949
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IeIRRIEMUIR FLOWER SHOW Full Prize-List

... bringing brightness and beauty to the town. You may remember, he said, that during the war we were constantly told to dig for victory.** and many nearly broke their back in the process. There is still the same need to-day, to make ourselves self-supporting ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Red Parson: opinions for and against

... even than space needed for organised games. ' Many townsmen, since wartime necessity created the allotments under a Dig for Victory campaign, have found a new source of recreation and occupation for leisure hours; in fact, a new outlook on life. Every ...

Published: Friday 19 August 1949
Newspaper: South London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 996 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OPENED BY ALD. RUSH

... difficulties they had to contend with they seemed to come up smiling every year. I hey don’t want any propaganda about digging for victory, because they like gardening and just get on with the job and produce the goods. Any man who can keep the family supplied ...

Published: Wednesday 24 August 1949
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Longdon Show has record entries

... Longdon Show has record entries HOME food production is Just as important today it wa.s at the height the war-time “Dig for Victory campaign, and the* horticultural displays now being staged in villages and towns tliroughout the county are serving useful ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1949
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Big Jump

... Big Jump in Pentrich Show Entry GREAT success attended the eighth annual show of Pentnch “ Dig for Victory Horticultural Society, which was opened by Coun. H. R. Newman (general manager Butterley Works), at the Dog Inn Grounds, Pentrich. on Saturday. ...

Published: Monday 29 August 1949
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 85 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

(Front Previous Column) Memorial Cup most Points. wornen's I . M,€ 0 St m pson ; Bowden Memorial Cup 'ben

... Wood Memorial Cup ibrat flowering exbit T. Wharton: Eric Cowgill Memorial Cup .children's classed. Dsvid Holdsworth; Dig for Victory Cup MOM points. vegetable ciaossesi. H. Fish. Entries at Cttley Flower Siiow unespectedW high at 5111. F Atkinson and ...

Published: Monday 29 August 1949
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 151 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SIM:VIAL R/11817

... Barker at the Old Mexborough Pottery. Yorkshire. Perhaps the real explanation is that they were designed as part of a Dig for Victory campaign during the Napoleonic wars ...

Published: Wednesday 31 August 1949
Newspaper: Worthing Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COUNTRY SHOW IN HAMMERSMITH

... Hammer smith. In a message contained it the official program me oO events the Mavor said: How often we read th slogan “Dig for Victory” dur ing the war years. Penhaps wi read it with a feeling of re seatment because of the note o warning and whict the three ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1949
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1039 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Busy Park .Gardeners

... profitable experience, especially with vegetable prices so high. When we do quit, we shall be grateful for the chance to Dig for Victory during war and peace. Le center. DIGGER. csane to the conclu.sion that he Is merely adding to the noise. Regarding the ...

Published: Monday 05 September 1949
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 333 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TWO POSTMEN STARTED THIS BIG FLOWER SHOW

... Society of the Post Office Headquarters in Scotland ssprang from the small‘est beginnings—ifriendly rivalry during the “Dig for Victory” years between a cougle of Post Office workers—and the Society’s annual show, held in the G.P.0., Edinburgh, to-day, was ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 1949
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 5 | Tags: none