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... is only recently that the female contribution to winning the Second World War has been recognised. Women did more than dig for victory and keep the home fires burning. Trauma and tragedy They were at the sharp end of the war. At times air raid wardens, ...

Published: Monday 28 January 1991
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 867 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

8 EVENING MAIL SATURDAY APRIL 18 1998 MAIL I UnUHT nrnlL IO ANGRY BRUMMIE GARDENERS ARE The Davids of a

... early retirement points out that Brummies have been growing their own fruit and veg there since at least 1941 when the “Dig for Victory’ campaign gathered strength - and Bill reckons he started his plot in about 1939 Selective “The golf club is highly selective ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1998
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 1008 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

6 EVENING MAIL SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 1983 SSDD FOCUSfet Smoking: a case better education It is depressing that at a

... we get too many channels for the talent available it will not be space TV but yet more void TV Farming folk who still dig fior victory “The trouble with farmers” says Tony Parkin producer and presenter radio’s On Your Farm for 20 years “is they think they ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1983
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 2130 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Germans were the baddies WHEN the motion picture industry went to war it did so with a vengeance World War

... a lot of territory Propaganda The spectrum ranged over the brief uncompromising propaganda short exhorting Britons to dig for victory conserve light heat and scrap metal or putting across such messages as Coughs and sneezes spread diseases It extended ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1979
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 1033 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

12 EVENING MAIL TUESDAY MAY 2 1995 GIRLS TALK OF BRYONY JONES REPORTS UNDERVALUED and ovarworkad women’s land ..

... army girls were from towns and hadn’t any experience of farming” It had been Daphne’s love of animals and her desire to dig for victory that spurred her into joining the Women’s Land Army in September 1942 LonoHness Unlike most young women who went to work ...

Published: Tuesday 02 May 1995
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: Article | Words: 1032 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

H 29 Plots may thicken for 'grow your own1 ATV team block film of clangers “Somehow into hands of London

... back Jayshaw Avenue and setting out about 12 plots “There is a desperate need for allotments and people are anxious to dig for victory in fight against rising prices” “We have got to at use of other plots of land available around the borough because there ...

Published: Friday 29 April 1977
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 1065 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Rooting out fine

... company's excellent BTD mulftpur• pose fertiliser suits all plants. I, too, am a slave to Grow more because this war-time Dig for Victory granules formula is based on a balanced 7.7.7 makeup so that I'm scat• tering equal parts of nitrogen, phosphorus and ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1986
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 1209 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

EVENING MAIL FRIDAY JANUARY 20 1995 WIN A £60000 LUXURY HOME TOBACCO SMUGGLING GROWING SMUGGLERS are sneaking ..

... was like to be a wartime evacuee in a living history project help mark the 50th anniversary of VE Day Organisers of the Dig for Victory project at Erdington’s Rookery House in Rookery Park on May 10 11 and want wartime to add Anyone who can help can contact ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1995
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: Article | Words: 1033 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

' Your own fc’ w FOCUS(Sfl Council sets out its stall It is not without a certain irony that Dudley

... bore huge posters warning of dangers of “fifth columnists” pleading with women work In factories and urging everyone dig for victory Today the story of the Home Front propaganda campaign is ' told in a smart little booklet from ILM Stationery Office This ...

Published: Thursday 30 June 1983
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 1490 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SANDWELL EVENING MAIL FRIDAY JUNE -29 33 FRIDAY FOCUS On holidays fashion work and shopping Village life with I ..

... done had done save the closure But like dozens of other foundries Kathleen says farewell MRS Kathleeen Howe joined the “dig for victory” call-up in industry to help the war effort and has just retired years later Dunkirk spirit has earned her respect on ...

Published: Friday 29 June 1979
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 1494 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

GOVT SURVIVE BY 8 VOTES DOLE TAX ROW FAG6ITS & PAZE Two Black Countr’y likely I I 'OPE Tenants dig

... GOVT SURVIVE BY 8 VOTES DOLE TAX ROW FAG6ITS & PAZE Two Black Countr’y likely I I 'OPE Tenants dig for victory Sandwell council tenants are bloomin' great! They have been sampling the sweet smells of success in this year's Municipal Gardens Competition ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1982
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 1313 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Norma West as frail mistress Mrs Brympton Joanna David as her new maid Hartley A time for Vera to meet

... feeling” The memo added that when not singing any of the 200 gramaphone records she had made since the of 15 she tended her Dig for Victory garden played her favourite records by Artie Shaw and was shortly to be seen at the London Palladium in Applesauce The ...

Published: Friday 27 May 1983
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 2177 | Page: 23 | Tags: none