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WARTIME GARDENING

... in the rain. The shirt is in crepe lisle, hard-wearing and easy to wash, and costs 10s. nd. in various pastel colours. DIG for victory in these workmanlike dungarees from Harrods, Knightsbridge. In navy flannel, designed for hard work, they cost 45s. yd ...

BRITAIN in WAR-TIME: Three Graphic Pictures

... women hard at work planting out their allotments, for many of these open spaces have now been dug up in the nation-wide Dig for Victory campaign. Here is a typical Sunday morning I scene on Clapham Common, showing the allotmenteers hard at work on their ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

A Crooner's Day: Evelyn Dall at Home and at Work

... has Evelyn knitting for victory while she waits, suitably attired, to exhort the audience to dig for ditto Dig, sings Evelyn, ravishing as a lady-gardener and backed by a chorus of gentlemen-gardeners dig, dig, ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Comfort in the West Country

... Court in which to work off superfluous energy, while if you wish to emulate Mr. Middleton, you can till, weed, prune or dig for victory. Perhaps the greatest attraction of Fuidge Manor is that it is unlike an hotel. Instead one feels that one is a member ...

Decorative Vegetable Gardens

... ly|f ecor alive Vegetable Gardens Br Eleanour Sinclair Rolide Dig for Victory confronts us on every hoarding. That means vegetables, that means grow our own food. Well, we can do this and still have a good-looking garden. Some of our most useful vegetables ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 851 | Page: 73 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE IN ALL ... ATHERS IN FAIR, ... IN SNOW FOUL, AND AND FROST

... ATHERS I IN FAIR, IN IN SNOW FOUL, AND and FROST By CAPTAIN DONALt ANDERSON DIG FOR VICTORY! is one of the things we are urged to do at home. Digging in preparation for victory is also one of the most important present occupations of the British Expeditionary ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1149 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

January is the Time to Plan

... onions gives point to this assertion. Everyone who owns a garden should take stock of his individual contribution to the Dig for Victory campaign, to see if it is possible to improve on past results and help to make 1941 the greatest gardening season ever ...

The Social Round: Clarion Call from Chelsea

... first-aid post they learn to sing, carpenter, cook, dress-make (Ethne Fry the artist is the Schiap of her post) and to dig for victory, make toys and speak two languages as well as the medical lingo. More important, they learn to look and to be good nurses ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3165 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

Leslie Banks and Daughters: An Actor's Family Digs for Victory

... Leslie Banks and Daughters An Actor's Family Digs for Victory A classical scholar of Keble might well be the first line of a limerick. It is actually the first line in the career of Leslie Banks, actor, producer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 257 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

FILM-STAR AT HOME: Valerie Hobson at her Elizabethan House in Bucks

... mornings when there is no early studio work, they have an alfresco breakfast at the tree-trunk table in the garden Digging for Victory Valerie Hobson hard at work among the runner beans, which look extremely healthy. She knows that every bit of produce ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 178 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

COUNTRY HOMES IN WARTIME: GOLDICOTE, STRATFORD-ON-AVON

... Chief Dog to the Establishment Bringing Down Some Supplies Mrs. Wheeler fSrrm Groom's WiffJ and John Collet Hard at it Digging for Victory in the Walled Kitchen Garden (On left) Mrs. Stopp (a Gardener's Wife) and Miss Harrison (Head Housemaid) Storing Supplies ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs