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... “Motoring is becoming the pressure game and the end of that game is death” Time to dig A LOCAL conservation group will be bringing back memories of the wartime “Dig for Victory” campaign tomorrow The campaign may be an old idea but the sentiments behind it ...
... officers investigating the alleged smuggling of £13m worth of gold bullion into the country and the avoidance of £2m in VAT DIG for victory! An internatinal mining company is looking for experienced tunnelling teams to work in the Notts coalfields These and ...
... paper and fact that had to go potato picking for two weeks of the year in October-November time On top of this we had to dig for victory in school gardens and one large allotment at Bramcote Looking back now and remembering that we left school at 14 it makes ...
... ‘all clear’ Sounded loud families emerge From garden shelters crowds would surge Allotments full of spuds and beans ‘Dig for victory’ was the theme Fathers brothers all had gone Fighting ’til the war was won So long ago but have to say It seems like only ...
... Ravenshead to council allotments in Eastwood where the chairman of the county council Peter Burgess will be helping to “Dig for Victory” People who lived through the war will tell their stories and in Mansfield listeners are being invited to bring their ...
... for garden volunteers WHAT'S IN A NAME? BRITAIN is experiencing its biggest quest for home-grown food since wartime dig for victory campaign But as far as teenagers are concerned to be a down-to-earth For Green Fingers co-ordinating organisation endeavours ...
... Chairman of the Nottingham branch of the National Vegetable Society Jim Burns comments: It may not be quite like the old Dig for Victory times of the second world war for many things have advanced since that time Plots One thing is certain though you will ...
... feature throughout the county from the Beeston Boiler Company's 1wtticultural and poultry rabbit show to the grand Dig for Victory show at Wol-laton Park in aid of the county's Services' Comforts Fund The four-day event included 97 classes of fruit ...
... one gun I was a bit frightened “Nottingham’s War Part Two” which also includes stories about rationing the black out “Dig For Victory the threat of invasion and many more subjects tells for the time the detailed story the city's spirit during the darkest ...
... with the jet attend to the fires with the spray Until they start slipping in high explosive Careless talk costs lives Dig for Victory The repulsive Squanderbug with Hitler moustache and covered in little swastikas Woolton Pie Run Rabbit Run Stukas and ...
... snack) bread soup and bacon and egg pie (a great wartime favourite) were just a few Goodness Everyone was encouraged to “dig for victory” to steam their vegetables to retain the natural goodness and boil potatoes in their skins to cut down on the loss of ...
... (Four 1000) Fred Barnes recalls how the theft of half a million ration books from a Romford food office represents The 'dig for victory’ scheme encouraged the maximum use of available land for home grown produce So parks tennis courts and even the moat in ...