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Just dig for victory ..

... Just dig for victory (Continued from previous page) from shovels, forks and spades to hoes and rakes. The very popular Bio Range with compost, fertilisers, tomato feed. plant food, Gromore, bone meal. lawn feed and weed killer is there in its full ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1998
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1069 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

DIG FOR VICTORY! GARDENING LECTURE

... DIG FOR VICTORY! GARDENING LECTURE will be given by Mr A. HOWIE, in the MASONIC HALL, Thursday, 13th March, at 8.15 p.m. All Allotmont Holders and those interested in Gardening are cordially invited to attend ‘Ordinary Monthly MEETING of Lerwick S.W.R ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1941
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

50 YEARS AGO

... competition for a new ‘Dig for Victory’ poster was recently organised by the Smallholder, in co-operation with the Ministry of Agriculture, the purpose being to obtain a new ‘Dig for Victory’ poster for the more extensive digging which will ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1991
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Tipping the scales

... reforms by provision of free school meals for the needy. whilst some 30 years late it was stressed under the patriotic “Dig for Victory™ banner. In modern times the slightest whiff of obesity automatically brands us as nutritionally-challenged couch potatoes ...

Published: Friday 13 March 1998
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

GATES ON PUBLI® ROADS

... repair it? He tells us this crofter should dig more land and help her nation, that the day's work done, with pick, shovel, blasting apparatus and fencing materials, she must dig, dig unceasingly for victory over Mussolini with his hill fox, his invaders ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1941
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SUNDAY DESECRATION

... advanced, age, it seems man does all this himself, without observing the Almighty Hand. During the war years, the call, “Dig for Victory,” caused many a manual worker to feel abased, when, on a peaceful Sabbath morning, people passed by going to worship — ...

Published: Friday 11 April 1947
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GATES ON PUBLIC ROADS

... croft, not to mention five. About one acre of all this land is under cultivation, and with the great “ic.t present of ‘* Dig for Victory ' surelg there is material here going to waste. ye:rnhe}ic Crofter ' mentions this other &te 1 ing into the oprliu ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 635 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Scalloway’s Sports Day and Flower Show. Success of Combined Events

... The effort by the way branch in having a show again this year had come at a most appropriate time, when we were told to dig for victory, and, npukh, from a military point of view, he thzh.t rom what he could T e g P et e able in the way green next six months ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 695 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Letter to the Editor. SCHOOL GARDENS

... Letter to the Editor. SCHOOL GARDENS. Dear Sir,—ln these days of digging for victory 1 would like to draw the attention of the Agricultural Commitiee and the Education Authority ‘o the state of a number of school gardens throughout the county where there ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

50 YEARS AGO

... 50 YEARS AGO Digging for Victory — An elderly lady in Shetland has set a fine example in the country’s drive for increased land cultivation. After hearing the appeal she set to work on her land, which is a few miles from the town, and has delved and ...

Published: Friday 17 August 1990
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SPENT 30 YEARS IN THE EAST

... far from a desirable insurance risk. To-day. in my seventy fifth year, I am quite fit, and able to do my share in ‘Digging for Victory,’” thanks to a little daily dose of Kruschen, taken at akening in hot te- 365 days a year sees this little ceremony ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1944
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GOTT SCHOOL

... were delighted with the new school garden, and were greatly impressed by the work which the children ild dpone m ** Digging for Victory. MID WALLS PUBLIC SCHOOL. The annual prize-giving took place in Mid Walls Public &hool on sth July. The prize list ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1942
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 3 | Tags: none