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25 YEARS AGO GROSS national savings in Scotland for the week ending March 20 totalled £4,253,102 compared with ..

... people in Aberdeen are using their gardens and so many others are taking allotments in order to play their part in the Dig for Victory campaign that the Corporation Cleansing Department has found it necessary to restrict their supplies of stable manure ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1990
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 273 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

KEEN ON VEGETABLE GROWING

... KEEN ON VEGETABLE GROWING ABERDEEN is out to maintain its reputation as one of the strongest supporters of the Dig for Victory campaign. Although it is less than a month since an appeal was made for more people to take up allotments, 150 applications ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Tne Rambler ALREADY I'm hearing good accounts of the work of the Seaton and School Road Tenants' Association, ..

... the work of the Seaton and School Road Tenants' Association, which was formed about two months ago to help with the Dig for Victory campaign. Bulk purchases of seeds and manures have benefited the members personally. but much more notab:e is the part ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

W.R.I. ONE-DA Y SCHOOL

... and Miss Murray, Lonach, as Press secretary. After lunch at the British Restaurant, many of the delegates visited the “Dig for Victory” Exhibition at the Music Hall, where the Federation had a stall displaying bottled fruits and vegetable jams, pickles ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

in the countryside

... in the countryside stopped food imports. Having experience of doing just that in the early dig for victory” days, we would never wish to have to do so ever again. Anyway, the main reason giving for putting land into treees that we could then supply the ...

Published: Thursday 19 February 1987
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

£l4 8s 9d PER HEAD FOR

... track. The line was cleared in the late afternoon. Turriff to Dig for Victory There was a good attendance at a lecture and film show in the Picture House. Turriff, under “The Dig for Victory Campaign.” Addresses were given by ex- Provost E. W. Watt, Aberdeen ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 624 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ABERDEEN'S EXAMPLE IN DIGGING FOR VICTORY

... ABERDEEN'S EXAMPLE IN DIGGING FOR VICTORY a Lead to All V,,, Scotland aS s^ar^et to dig for victory. ac *ivity with the spade in allotments and gardens d ° Seed Potatoes in shops. ■v one a? U greater than city had een seedsman. f but also -F s not onl ...

Published: Friday 08 March 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE LONDONER'S DIARY

... species. of coining for the last fifty years. This week in the debate on agriculture he aptly exclaimed. You cannot dig for victory with a pair of Treasury scissors. Another phrase of his which will be remembered was when he ta:ked about plucking the ...

Published: Friday 09 February 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Marjorie, iive:ve got to dig for victory. Eh•' said 1. startled, ,wlio? Where have they buried him? Wait a minute. turn the wirelc s I did. Now I can hear you better, I - We've gut to dig for victory,' repeated my wife, patiently. Dig ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1091 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Allotments Grow in Popularity

... within the city boundary. Potatoes and other kinds of vegetables are making excellent headway above the ground. The ''dig for victory spirit is in evidence in most of the towns and villages in the North and North-east. Flower gardens have been converted ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOME PRODUCTION OF FOOD ESSENTIAL

... Aberdeen Complimented on Allotments Scheme TRIBUTE to the part being played by the Aberdeen Cleansing Department in the Dig for Victory campaign was paid yesterday by Dr W. G. Ogg, director of the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research. 'Speaking to the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Cookery for War-time

... BALANCED DIETS The campaign is being conducted by the Education Department's cookery teachers. It is a compliment to the dig for victory movement, and has the strong encouragement of the Government. The demonstrations show how to balance diets that bodv-building ...

Published: Tuesday 23 April 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 3 | Tags: none