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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

Tea-Time Topics

... Tea-Time Topics e Dig for Victory WHEN a Hornsey man set about making a garden out of the rubble-filled backvard of his own Council house, built en a bomb site, he had 1o move |—Tons of Rubb) y __Naumerous iron bed ~ steads 3—The dogs: skeletons of five ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1949
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Chelmsford

... by the river >0 Hcybridgc then back Maldon where tea was taken. ANOTHER PRIZE WINNER. In the Chelmsford and District Dig for Victory Sho»' the name of Mr. B. Barnard, Broomficld Road, was omitted from' our list of prize-winners last week. He gained Ist ...

Published: Friday 09 September 1949
Newspaper: Chelmsford Chronicle
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1090 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

UNITED HAVE LATE DOUBTS BY TOM JACKSON

... and with driving it away without the owner's consent. Pony and motorcycle gymkhana Handforth Show, which started as a Dig for Victory campaign in a Wesleyan schoolroom, has become a well-supported annual event. To-day, for the first time, a pony gymkhana ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1949
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 406 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BEST GROUP OF GARDENS

... GARDENS Team's Fourth Win at Cirencester At Cirencester horticultural society's two day show, which grew out of the wartime dig-for-victory campaign, it was announced that for the fourth year in sucession a team of Cirencester allotment holders had won the ...

Published: Monday 12 September 1949
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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

150 YEARS AGO SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1799

... nursemaid. Stafford show theme: “Dig for plenty iriRST held in 1940 part of the war-time Dig for Victory' campaign, the annual show of the Startord Borough Horticultural Committee continues today em- the need to Dig for Plenty. This year's show, held ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1949
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1278 | Page: 7 | 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

Entries Hit By Dry Season HIGH STANDARD

... Committee of the Borough Council, was the ninth of the series. During the war years, it was, of course, known as a Dig for Victory exhibition. More support was accorded the show by trade exhibitors this year, •the Show Secretary, Mr. E. W. Vaughan, ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1949
Newspaper: Staffordshire Newsletter
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 568 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

6 Bromley & West Kent Mercury. Sept. 23, 1949. BROMLEY WEDDINGS. OLD DAYS AND NOT FORGOTTEN. 1 OLD WAYS. POSTAL

... garden. What are you doing with that spade? she asked. I'm digging for victory, old girl, be replied. NS cll. she said, God help the country if we've got to rely on your gardening for victory. ZAVENSIIOI . IINE TOWNSWOMEN.—The monthly meeting of the ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1949
Newspaper: Bromley & West Kent Mercury
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3262 | Page: 6 | Tags: none