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Dig for victory

... Dig for victory ANN COOKSON, who became Britain'* youngest theatre ad ministrator at Scarborough's Royal Opera House when the old theatre was reopened four years ago, has quit the bright lights of show business for an acre of land. 26-year-old Ann has ...

Published: Thursday 31 July 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GREEN-FINGERED residents are invited tc dig for victory in a summer competition run by the Brighter Kensington ..

... GREEN-FINGERED residents are invited tc dig for victory in a summer competition run by the Brighter Kensington and Chelsea Scheme. The competition is divided into three sections. Private gardens will be judged first on June 27 and in a final on July 25 ...

Published: Thursday 11 June 1987
Newspaper: Kensington Post
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 56 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

More Play Reviews: Outrageous revue on wartime cliches

... revue on wartime cliches CLIEE HANGER Dig For Victory ONLY A strait-laced historian could frown at the Cliff Hanger Theatre Company's bizarre rewriting of the events of World War Two. For the rest of us, Dig For Victory, a comedy with songs written and ...

Published: Thursday 11 December 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 16 | Tags: review 

Light Entertainment News: A tale of two Peter Robinsons..

... Peter Robinsons THE CLIFF HANGER Theatre Com pany actor Peter Robinson, mentioned in last week's STAGE review of Dig For' Victory at the Bull and Gate, should not be confused with the well known variety personality Peter Robin son, The Comedian ...

Published: Thursday 18 December 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EAST ANGLIA 1941 by R. Douglas Brown ISBN 086138019 3 For many seofple 1941 was a time of waiting and

... has captured the flavour of a year when the defence forces were training for the offensive which was yet to come; when “dig for victory” was the slogan and people at home got to grips with ration books and identity cards. TERENCE DALTON OF LAVENHAM SUFFOLK ...

Published: Friday 14 November 1986
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 87 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE-JULY 30, 1981 13-VIEW OF THE ORIGINAL WOODEN BRIDGE OVER VIRGINIA WATER, BY PAUL AND THOMAS SANDBY ..

... the creation of the famous gardens which bear his name. During the war, much of the park was ploughed as part of the Dig for Victory campaign. Conversion to arable proved successful, and in 1950 a further decision was taken to dispose of the deer herd ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1981
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 606 | Page: 174 | Tags: none

How Guinness went down

... book about the Park Royal company's advertising. Guinness went to war with a poster which combined the Government's Dig for Victory with its own Guinness for Strength slogan. It coincides with the brewery's latest Genius theme, but it is more a nostalgic ...

in the good old days..

... g has reflected the changing fortunes of Britain. Guinness went to war with a poster which combined the Government's Dig for Victory with its own Guinness for Strength slogan. In the 1950 s a new poster appeared on the hoardings, showing a jovial sun ...

Regional Reviews: These Things do Happen

... the tractor, chugging out the whole some saga of the Parkins and assorted associated characters during those glo rious dig for victory years, 1939-45. He's mechanically capped when Bob Parkin goes to his limit of £150 to buy him only to find that farm-labourer ...

Published: Thursday 12 October 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

e Forties:'

... ' Much Binding in the Marsh',' Stand Easy!' Remember powdered eggs and cardboard wedding cakes Wartime slogans Dig For Victory:' Make Do Arid Mend!' Live again the jubilation of VE Daythe glamour of Princess Elizabeth's weddingthe furore ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1983
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 294 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Plot thickens in allotment price war

... allotment price war THE demand for allotments fluctuates over the years for various reasons. Some readers will remember the dig for victory campaign during the last war to which people responded so handsomely and as a result of this campaign allotments everywhere ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1986
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 362 | Page: 6 | Tags: none