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EAKBY & DISTRICT NOTES & NEW5

... waste materials, which has amounted to a grass figure of £445, and the Council s little effort in connection with the I Dig for Victory campaign, which has brought in a gross income of £2lB, are matters considered well worthy of note. I take this opportunity ...

Published: Friday 09 April 1943
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2805 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BARNOLDSWICK NOTES & PERSONAL

... appreciated by no one, more so, than by him to-morrow (Saturday) when the Local Horticultural Society hold their second Dig for Victory Show in aid of the Stranded Servicemen’s Fund. Councillor Carr will officiate opener of the proceedings, another instance ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1943
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3287 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

,ci* COLNE NOTES, GOSSIP round and about and PERSONAL . . COLNE By “THE STROLLER” Piseont I® Brill# “Win#* the

... began, was the question of the preservation footjiciths, particularly where fields have been ploughed to help the 44 Dig for Victory campaign. genuine ' ramblers disagree with the decision that it may to the interest the community at large to take away ...

Published: Friday 18 June 1943
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3257 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEWS FROM THE DISTRICTS

... granted to local residents and it is hoped that soon the other half will be spoken for. In this is going grow more food and Dig for victory.'’ Former Ramdam's Death. The funeral took place on Friday Hebden. near Grassington. of Mr. Robert Waddilove, formerly ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1940
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3791 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Digging for victory Too many blooms at the flower show!

... Digging for victory Too many blooms at the flower show! THE accent was on flowers rather than vefietables when Barnoldswick Horticultural Society held its early show on Saturday afternoon. Because although the vegetable section suffered through a lack ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1987
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 268 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

Wartime Recollections

... and tense atmosphere. Save metal, save paper, and “War Savings” too, Churchill’s im‘}xiring, callingfixp pa&e)u due. “Digging for Victory” and “Make Do and Mend”, All working together towards the war’s end. Gaé um‘xks and ear plugs, the Home Front the Home ...

Published: Friday 28 July 1989
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

What—No Applications!

... no doubts that the many jieople who have taken allotments and who previously held “love” for gardening will continue digging for victory long after the war w« »n. It also pleasing to note that Hoy Hay’s gardening notes which apjicar this |m)icr frequently ...

Published: Friday 27 June 1941
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FACTORY

... rabbits to help supply the canteen of a big factory in Birmingham. “I had to be pretty handy with a spade. The motto was digging for victory, and I had a ferret in either pocket for catching the rabbits. “Lucy was sent to Tattersall, farming. We lost touch ...

Published: Friday 15 September 1989
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

We find Lucy!

... her IT turns out that when the duo parted Lucy .; went to a place called Tattersall. She helped the war effort by “‘digging for victory” — and milking cows! Later, she came home to Colne, married Blacmum man Mr William Baron, and moved away. A cousirl ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1989
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Limit. Biggs

... pleasantly situated and commodious vicarage. It has large garden in which Mr. Whitehead has been doing his full sham in digging for victory (rather against doctor’s orders one suspects!). Church, which the visitors inspected, is fine old structure, the original ...

Published: Friday 23 May 1941
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Defence Activities

... war-weary, we are enduring, and more than enduring. You should see the renewed activity in defence activities now tliat the digging-for-victory seaantn is dying away, and the hlitzuig season beginning. People are defying unmentionable weather, and the black-out ...

Published: Friday 30 October 1942
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Better Saved Than Sorry

... titan the war itself, and it’s up to us to see that it doesn’t occur again. Then do you think it’s too early to think digging for victory? Fireside gardening a very pleasant and interesting part of gardening, so why let the time slip by when one is able ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1942
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 4 | Tags: none