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HOLDERS PREPARE

... HOLDERS PREPARE COUNCIL TENANT RETAINS CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD Dig for Victory was the theme of addresses at public meeting in the Lecture Room of the Taunton Public Library on Thursday evening, arranged by the Allotments Committee of the Town Council and ...

GLASTONBURY AND AXBRIDGE GAZETTE PRICE THREE HALF PENCE

... there would be million allotments in all while more lood was being grown in million gardens. The main idea behind the dig for victory scheme was that the occupiers of the allotments and gardens should make a bigger contribution to the production of their ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1940
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 753 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OLD WELLENSIANS

... and the money is being spent on books for the amusement of troops behind the lines. One item reads We are assisting the Dig for Victory Campaign by cultivating a plot of land belonging to the Cedars in order to grow more vegetables; and a large quantity ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1940
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 275 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DIGGING FOR VICTORY

... DIGGING FOR VICTORY. Before the war some two million families were growing foodstuffs for themselves on allotments and in their own gardens, or keeping chickens or pigs. Since September last it is estimated that an additional tSoo,ooo families have followed ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1940
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 54 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHY WEATHER REPORTS ARE BANNED

... Weston-super-Mare were given at a meeting held at the Town Hall on Wednesday in connection with the Grow more Food and Dig for Victory campaign. Councillor A. M. B. Criddle (chairman of the Weston Borough Council's Allotment Com. mittee), who presided ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1940
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 506 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NOTES AND QUERIES

... have saved England from being starved into submission in 1917 ’ In view of the fact that we are again being asked to dig for victory the above extract is most interesting It would be quite as interesting if some reader could tell us what the worthy Bishop ...

ON THIN ICE !

... strong remedy for chilled extremities —moun- dew. “DIG FOR VICTORY CAMPAIGN BRIDGWATER OPPORTUNITIES WHAT THE ALLOTMENTS ASSOCIATION IS DOING appeal to the people of Bridgwater to support the Dig for Victory campaign by cultivating more allotments was made ...

DIG HARD,

... DIG HARD, The retiring President referred to the necessity of co-operation between the members in order to extend the work of the Association and increase the membership. They heard the phrase Dig for victory,” and he felt sure they would all have to ...

LOCAL NOTES AND QUERIES

... to have saved England from being starved into submission 1917 In view of the fact that we are again being asked to dig for victory the above extract is most interesting It would be quite as interesting if some reader could tell us what the worthy Bishop ...