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10 BRISTOL TONIGHT WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4 1989 War Years Down-to-earth Britain Let Dig For Victory be the motto ..

... Britain’s Dig For Victory had become Germany’s Dig For Survival Colin Thomas diversions THE FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARY How would you feel if you won a 50 per cent reduction of your working day a shorter working week and a pay rise? That sort of victory would call ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1989
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
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EVENING POST THURSDAY OCTOBER 15 1987 13 wardens testing gas masks in 1941 Report: Julie Hendry Pictures: ..

... many lives had been lost women had become used to going out to work and old Kingswood had disappeared The cover from a Dig for Victory leaflet Debbie Willmott takes a look at some of the World War Two relics on aitfires Centre display at the Saucepans into ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1987
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
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EVENING POST FRIDAY MAY 2 1986 19 Legging it for charity SIMPIY ELEGANT Adds value and desirability to your ..

... Care course the college pushed the for four hours through central Bristol and hoped to about £200 for Cot Death Reeearch Dig for victory Gardeners in Bristol invited to enter the city council’s 1986 Clean Green gardening competition Entries should be in by ...

Published: Friday 02 May 1986
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
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EVENING POST TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10 1987 The paper all Bristol asked for and helped to create POST VIEW Plans for

... POST VIEW Plans for the land GONE are the days when if you saw a spare plot of countryside you planted a food crop the 'dig for victory’ approach to land European subsidies and over-production have meant that we no longer need to use every available acre ...

Published: Tuesday 10 February 1987
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
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EVENING POST THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7 1989 17 CRIME GOES DOWN ONCE MORE CRIME in Gloucestershire has dropped again ..

... pins the museum collection Wartime food was scarce and rationed so what could be grown on allotments became important Dig For Victory slogan of the war years so allotments protected by emergency regulations A £50 fine in days was a lot of money” Mr Ponting ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 1989
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1164 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

EVENING POST MONDAY SEPTEMEER 24 1984 11 The Mayor of Weston -Councillor John Crockford Hawley joins members of ..

... them have left London on the Orient Express on a trip he bequeathed them his will when he died last September Brownies dig for victory MORE than 250 Brownies battled with the breeze to build dream castles on the beach at Weston-super-Mare yesterday They ...

Published: Monday 24 September 1984
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
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8 EVENING POST TUESDAY DECEMBER 5 1989 EVICTION THREAT TO FATHER CHRISTMAS ‘Hands off our Santa Claus’ By John ..

... They want to buy the one-and-a-half acre site About 20 members gathered to cheer the planting of the wild cherry tree Dig for victory the Montpelier Poplar Front plant the flowering POPLAR FRONT PROTEST Why Bill won’t put his money on snow BRITAIN faces ...

Published: Tuesday 05 December 1989
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1223 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

rust 3U Motown stars sing for victory SOME of the top soul music artists from the 1960s will appear live

... vegetables to a wartime recipe will be on exhibit and three hampers containing other wartime delicacies such as Spam and Dig for Victory garden produce will be raffled There will be a leaflet on sale with details of Brislington’s War Diary Drawing our ration ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1989
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1305 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

16 EVENING POST THURSDAY OCTOBER 19 1989 ’-x--x-x-x- JANET BOND ON THE PART WOMEN PLAYED DURING BRITAIN’S ..

... series entitled Kitchen Front and every morning actress Mabel Constanduros fave food tips 'eople responded well to the Dig for Victory slogan yielding enough vegetables to prevent widespread hunger Potatoes and carrots were especially plentiful explaining ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1989
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1389 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Just before the war I was the merchant service overseas and towing and salvage work in London 1 was paid

... the Dig For Victory campaign? Do you recall the GIs in Bristol their attraction for the local girls and the reception given the black Americans both by and their white compatriots? Were you involved the build-up to or aftermath of D-Day in victory celebrations ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1989
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2130 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

TONIGHT SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18 1989 9 The picture above shows the Bristol police motor transport maintenance ..

... RESTRICTIONS 1936 the IFA changed its name to the National Federation of Ironmongers The Second World War saw traders deep in Dig For Victory campaigns and selling garden tools as they did so They also had to contend with various restrictions on supplies of paraffin ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1989
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1976 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

TONIGHT SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 1989 9 Poppy Sellers See them standing on the street Running noses and freezing ..

... they knew themselves Everyone was harangued by radio and cinema to do their bit for the war effort any way they could “Dig for Victory” we were entreated “Make do and Mend” Careless talk costs lives be like Dad keep Mum join this that For a few weeks I ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1989
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2172 | Page: 33 | Tags: none