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Thursday 16th April 1987 7 IT was pleasing to hear that the Town Council's annual allotments contest lives on, ..

... to hear that the Town Council's annual allotments contest lives on, despite it being called something dating back to “'dig for victory.. That to my mind was quite wrong! Efforts in those days resulted in there being mountains of potatoes and other root ...

Published: Thursday 16 April 1987
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Wartime garden .What's planned plots to be sold SOUTH Kesteven District Council has received the following ..

... What's planned plots to be sold SOUTH Kesteven District Council has received the following planning applications: WARTIME Dig for Victory plots on the very long gardens at the back Aslackby and Laughton Trent Road, Grantham, are to be of the site to save ...

Published: Friday 13 October 1989
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 146 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Business Opportunities 1 Financial 1 1 Gardening I

... maintenance. Free estimates. Distance no object. Telephone Grantham WELLAOTTED %labors. as much as can carry away. 50p. dig for victory. 4 mites Grantham. Circus Winter I Quarters. Harlington Junction. I get cracking. ...

Published: Friday 30 October 1981
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Wednesday December 5 1984 Do you recall those days when trams used to rumble up and down Lincoln High Street

... was taken in the grounds of Boultham Park The men are tending a crop of sugar beet Boultham House is in the background DIG for Victory” was one of the slogans that lasted throughout the Second World War Men with allotments made the most of them and even ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1984
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 363 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Target Series Thursday September 7 1989 Page 25 MATCHBOX i toys cunthorpe ready for war Scunthorpe man was ..

... God but keep your powder dry” He advised them to dig trenches in their back gardens and to make gas-proof rooms The emphasis on gas and gas masks showed now real were the fears of those days Dig for Victory But although the 1938 crisis passed the Scunthorpe ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 1989
Newspaper: Scunthorpe Target
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

IN BRIEF Residents in land battle

... IN BRIEF Residents in land battle WARTIME Dig For Victory plots are at the centre of a Grantham battle nearly 50 years after they were first used to help the war effort. Heathfield Road residents have slammed the local authority's handling of a decision ...

Published: Friday 28 July 1989
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Agriculture at crossroads says MP

... Conservative Party’s Cereal Sub Committee, says that the days of an expanding, intensive agriculture, begun by the wartime “Dig for Victory” campaign, are at an end. In order to control food surpluses a vasi acreage of agicultural land will have to split off ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1987
Newspaper: Louth Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Agriculture at crossroads says MP

... Conservative Party's Cereal Sub Committee, says that the days of an expanding, intensive agriculture, begun by the wartime “Dig for Victory’ campaign, are at an end. In order to control food surpluses a vast acreage of agicultural land will have to split off ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1987
Newspaper: Skegness Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Agriculture at crossroads says MP

... Conservative Party’s Cereal Sub Committee, says that the days of an expanding, intensive agriculture, begun by the wartime “Dig for Victory” campaign, are at an end. In order to control food surpluses a vast acreage of agicultural land will have to split off ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1987
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Civic Ball bar choice leads to LVA meeting

... the grassy slope between Spital Hill and Cox’s Hill which is now given over to allotments the change coming in the “Dig For Victory” campaign of the last war. Pictured is the junction of Hawthorn Avenue, Hawthorn Grove and Spital Hill, with the water ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1983
Newspaper: Gainsborough Evening News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 491 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

B e e e s e e ‘ e Agriculture at crossroads says MP

... Conservative Party’s Cereal Sub Committee, says that the days of an expanding, intensive agriculture, begun by the wartime “Dig for Victory” campaign, are at an end. In order to control food surpluses a vast acreage of agicultural land will have to split off ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1987
Newspaper: Spilsby Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

– T ~i l l dt lk [ : of the i “ – ‘ – BT ey . 2 Bi- e 5 o I TALKS between local far- farmers, landowners and ..

... are s The talks are essential for The shlands dr draft ment the way out according en Spital Hill and ver to allotments, Dig For Victory” red is the junction . Grove and Spital h serves the estate Picture: Lilywhite a long-term £9 imiiiiion scheme to prevent ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1983
Newspaper: Gainsborough Evening News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 580 | Page: 5 | Tags: none