Tom Macpherson, M.P., speaks at Writtle

... the large number of allotments now being turned over to building sites, especially in the suburban arears, where the Dig for Victory campaign had great support during (he war ...

Published: Friday 16 September 1949
Newspaper: Essex Newsman
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

UNWISE' TO CIVE NOTICE TO PLOTHOLDERS

... reason for this demand for the return of the ground, which was given to the Federation during the war as part Of the Dig for Victory campaign, that it was urgently needed us an foothill pitch and place of recreation for Thornton Heath children. ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1949
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

City Council Work

... Estates, Markets and Baths Committee. During the war he was Chairman of the Lands Cultivation Committee and led the Dig for Victory campaign, during which thousands of new allotments were opened. He arranged lectures for allotment-holders in every ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1949
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 177 | Page: 4 | 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

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

persoi right to, neighbour' THOSE WERE THE DAYS

... the field. their billets. The Mayor and Mavoress of In response to the national Lynn (Mr. and Mrs. J. T. anneal to Dig for Victory. Bunks l I celebrated their the number of applicants so silver wedding. far received for additional allotments in the ...

Published: Tuesday 18 October 1949
Newspaper: Lynn Advertiser
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HEADSHIP OF SCHOOL

... interested in gardening, Mr Davies assisted in the Dig for Victory campaign during the war years by organising school gardening when he was teaching At Abercynon School and supervising the digging up of part of the school playground for conversion into ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1949
Newspaper: Pontypridd Observer
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 246 | Page: 6 | 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

THE AWARDS

... free rendering of ornament, 94 per cent., and D. R. Keen (Class 3) the marks in ornamental painting, ing, 17 per cent DIG FOR VICTORY Three Communists escaped from Ludhiana gaol, Zest Pun*b, on Sunday night through a 137 ft, tunneL They dug the tunnel ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1949
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 236 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

01,00 THE STRATHEARN HERALD. SATURDAY. 17th SEPTEMBER. 1949

... could farm il. I can still remember the enthusiasm with which I went to work with an axe and spade in answer to the Dig for Victory call on the outbreak of war. Until the third of September, our's had been a reasonably respectable back-green. with its ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1949
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 236 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AND LICENCE SUSPENDED

... 17 years. He took a keen and active interest in a number of local organisations, and in the last war took part in the Dig for Victory Campaign and other things. He was now interested in the Port Talbot Agricultural Show. It was clear from this that he ...

Published: Friday 29 July 1949
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 267 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

DIGGING FOR DEAR LIFE

... DIGGING FOR DEAR LIFE There was also the problem »f agriculture, for the natives lived by the product of their own labour. During the war we in this country were told to dig for victory, but the East African had to dig for dear life, which was oflen ruined ...

Published: Friday 25 February 1949
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 283 | Page: 8 | Tags: none