DIG FOR VICTORY

... DIG FOR VICTORY Three Communists escaped from Ludhiana gaol. East Punjab. on Sunday night through a ' 2711. tunnel. They dug the tunnel with spades supp li ed at, their request for growing foot ' crops in. the gaol courtyard. AU State forestry workers ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1949
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 50 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

DIG FOR VICTORY

... DIG FOR VICTORY 'piIKEE Communists escaped from Ludhiana Gaol on Sunday night through 27-foot tunnel, states a message from Ambala, East Punjab, to-day. They dug the tunnel with spades supplied at their request for growing crops in the gaol courtyard ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1949
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

'Dig for Victory' Has Died

... 'Dig for Victory' Has Died WARTIME enthusiasm for allotments is on the wane. Reports made to Hull Corporation Allotments Committee show that a good many plots have gone out of cultivation. The general superintendent, Mr H. Roscoe, told the committee that ...

Published: Thursday 29 September 1949
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Children ' first fc?„ 747 'JAI, • CROY DO N Town Council

... must give up their plots will cause a deal of heart-burning among those who during the war did their utmost to obey the dig for victory plea. It is only right, however, that the claims of children for open spaces in which to play should receive prior ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1949
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 299 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

E. S NORFOLK

... E. S NORFOLK Dig For Victory Aids Sea Cadets Gift Of £l,OOO Wartime Dig for Victory casupaigas have errant that Worthing idea Cadets have beret put is a position to pay off the mortgage their headquarters, the I.S. Vangua rd. This is how it happened ...

Published: Wednesday 30 March 1949
Newspaper: Worthing Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 4 | 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

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

* • * * Nesestes's Ombiaed Show

... the war, largely through the initiative of the then Mayor, the late AM. Joseph Bates. who was a noted figure in the Dig for Victory campaign. Earlier shows were held at Courtaulds' Canteen. and three years ago the Borough Horticultural Committee embarked ...

Published: Friday 05 August 1949
Newspaper: Midland Counties Tribune
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 153 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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

Now The Cup Is His

... 43th annual show. He was Mr. S. Bradbury. brother of the INaddedon extubt• tor, For the third year running he won the Dig for Victory Cup, given by president Dr. Sharpe. Now it lis for good. lle also won the Frank Buckingham Cup for most points. Ile ...

NOW THE CRY IS GET OUT At a recent meeting of Battersea Park Allotment holders it was decided to protest

... ten years the allotment holders have been urged to produce. From 1939 to 1945 we were urged to Dig for Victory; from 1045 onward the slogan has been Dig for Plenty. Suddenly the cry has altered to Get out. Any housewife knows that the price of vegetables ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1949
Newspaper: South Western Star
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 4 | Tags: none