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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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