... 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 ...

... “But I am going to stress the importance of the ‘give’ spirit which lies behind these gestures. “Jt is rather like the *“Dig for Victory,” campaign during_»the war years. .On.e could argue about the significance of that campaign, but one cannot argue about ...

... who can describe the Duke of Wellington. The reason schoolgirls like me went without their sweet ration and helped Dad Dig for Victory and took Mum'’s saucepans to school towards the war effort, was so that girls like our high school pupils could peacefully ...

... praise and encouragement. If your reporter had been more observant she would have seen in the back garden there is a “Dig for Victory” section besides all the authentic items of clothes, furniture, kitchen utensils, etc, the list too long to mention in ...

... At least we are better in terms of percentage than many industrial factions, and that is an achievement which makes “Dig for Victory” very small fry indeed. Beet facts SOUTH Lincolnshire sugar beet growers who have never visited their local factory at ...

... 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 ...

... section was won by Samuel Wright as Little John. Three girls from the Hughes family won the girls section with their Dig for Victory theme. The five-11 boys' section was jointly won by Christopher Heathcote and William Mawer, and the girls by Victoria ...

... Christopher digs for victory GREEN-FINGERED Christopher Pell (14) has won a cup for the best kept garden award at Ruskington Coteland County Secondary school. Christopher’s plot was chosen as' winner from 16 others in the school garden. k : Working éompletsly ...

... MORE ‘DIGGING FOR VICTORY’ A growing interest in allotments Parish councils, who have a statutory duty to provide land for allotments, are being warned to hang on to their gardens and resist the temptation to turn them into playing fields or sell them ...

... the Italian method, and the{ were very much appreciated by myself and many others. Long may the occupants of “Lawrusk” dig for victory.—Yours, etc., . OLD GARDENER. Ruskington. ...

... Farmers’ answer must be “Yes” OVER half the food eaten in Britain today is home grown. This is even more than in the famous dig-for-victory days of the last war. Farming is Britain’s biggest industry, and its record of mechanisation and productivity would put ...

... can live on. Collette can be contacted on (01529) 461499. “The black-outs, the rationing, the Land Army, evacuees, digging for victory and knitting for the troops — all these must have been part o village life. “Heritage Lincolnshire will be asking rural ...