PUPILS DIG FOR VICTORY

... PUPILS DIG FOR VICTORY ~ You can always tell that Spring is just around the corner when Falkirk Town Hall becomes blooming lovely. The annual bulb show by green-fingered pupils at Falkirk District schools takes place on February 19, 20, 21 and 22. The ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1987
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

N MINERS DIG FOR VICTORY

... N MINERS DIG FOR VICTORY BATTLEFIELD AMATEURS..cccoovinninninnnnnnen 0 KIRKINTILLOCH MINERS WELFARE. 7 MINERS were in seventh heaven after this display which kept their recent good form going. Loughran opened the scoring with his ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1987
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Workers in dig for victory plan

... Workers in dig for victory plan A call was made yesterday for a new farming and food develupment authority to run the ailing agricultural industry. The Workers' Party sees it as the first step to a move to revolutionise Ulster food production. It wants ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 8 | 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

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

Festival plan

... park's - Contoured mounds disappeared during the Second World War when the grass gave way to vegetables as part of the Dig for Victory campaign. Despite facelifts the park has never fully recovered and is a ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1987
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 63 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Festival plan

... park's contoured mounds disappeared during the Second World War when the grass gave way to vegetables as part of the Dig for Victory campaign. Despite facelifts the park has never fully recovered and is a ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1987
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 62 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Wartime fare still fires culinary

... with a liberal helping of catchphrases like Dig For Victory, Grow More Food and Step On It, the wartime government instilled in the nation the belief that not only the army, but everybody, marches to victory on its stomach. Well, what crops the little ...

Published: Thursday 28 May 1987
Newspaper: Dunstable Gazette
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 94 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Tom’s garden is the pick of bunch

... is the pick of bunch HARTLEPOOL'S greenfingered gardener Tom Patrick has shown the rest of the North-Ea_st the way to dig for victory. His garden has been chosen above 150 other entries as the prettiest in the North. And Ward Jackson Park has scooped the ...

Published: Tuesday 28 July 1987
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

IARMTAIK

... farmland as an unlimited source of food production no longer tenable. Production from our own resources was spawned by the Dig for Victory rightly prevailed In the 1944)8. but tow technology has meant that output has outstripped consumption in the West with ...

Published: Thursday 12 February 1987
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Their strategy for challenging 80s

... and public to reduce the ever increasing surpluses, perhaps conveniently forgetting not so long ago for the need to dig for victory or latterly encouragement for more and more efficient production and expansion, the requirement for some farming land ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1987
Newspaper: Beverley Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: 25 | Tags: none