Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... DIGGING FOR VICTORY “Gardeners Must Lead the Way,” Says Lord Northbourne LOCAL ASSOCIATION FORMED The gardeners have got to lead the way. In these words. Lord Northbourne summarised the aim of a public meeting held at Victoria Hall, Rochester, last evening ...
... YEARS Housewives told to dig MEDWAY housewives received an unusual call to arms from the wife of the Minister for Agriculture 50 years ago Mrs Hannah Hudson wrote to the towns’ women asking them to join her in the “Dig for Victory” week aimed at bolstering ...
... Rochester, recently, we heard people prominent in the county and the Medway Towns make an appeal to the citizens to “Dig for Victory,” and we would all well to remember this, having \ regard to the fact that Great Britain is said to produce fewer home-grown ...
... necessity arose for the “Dig For Victory” drive during the war “After a war such appalling magnitude as that through which we have just passed it is impossible to escape world-shortage of food therefore the need to keep digging is still with us” Mr Grisewood ...
... Dobson Gillingham Borough Surveyor recalled that he was executive whose job it was to deal with allotments when the “Dig for Victory” campaign began during the war A CREDIT TO THE TOWN “The Allotmentholders’ Association” said Mr Dobson “is a credit to ...
... Nws 28 August 1967 Allotment enthusiasts retain title Couple who are expert at digging for victory A RETIRED Rochester couple’s growing skills have won them the city council’s allotment competition for the second consecutive year William and Daisy Keevil ...
... Ministry of Agriculture spokesman told a packed meeting at the Gillingham Pavilion that the towns were lagging behind in the dig-for-victory campaign The number of allotments being taken up was disappointing “I do not think people seem to realize what we are ...
... is even more sad to learn that the surplus land will developed for once built upon it is gone for ever and any future dig-for-victory type will have to look in vain for somewhere else to grow his cabbages potatoes and green beans vegetables that seem to ...