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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 

WHATEVER YOUR WORK: ALL-PURPOSE SUITS AND GARDENING ACCESSORIES

... designed for wartime wardrobes, and would be excellent for travelling, worn with a tweed topcoat from the same house. DIGGING for Victory is not always very comfortable, but Selfridges, Oxford Street, soften the strain with their gardening apron and cushion ...

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 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--: CHIEF PETTY OFFICER GEORGE COCK, of H.M. Destroyer HARDY, of the first attack on ..

... TO- CHIEF PETTY OFFICER GEORGE COCK, of H.M. Destroyer HARDY, of the first attack on Narvik, for being unsinkable. Digging for victory when at home, so that the spuds will be ready for his next leave Believe it or not, the special jumper sent for Tubby ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 225 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

FORCES PROGRAMME SINGER NO 1

... I VERA LYNN'S fan mail is a problem. She gets over a hundred letters a week from admirers at home and abroad. Left Digging for victory Vera finds time to plant cabbage seed in her garden at Barking. 44 All my own work Vera Lynn with some of the records ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

MAYTIME VERDICT

... Maytime Verdict DIGGING for victory has its effect on beauty as well as the vegetable supply, for gardening can take inches off your hip-line. Preparing the soil, pushing a barrow full of rubbish, lifting the watering- can, all exercise just those hip ...

Neighbourly Collaborators: The John Clements and the Robert MacDermots

... at Farnham Common, near the Clements. They are still busy moving in A' -V _ dSfc* The two families get together for a Dig-for- Victory party. Robert Hamer, associate producer at Ealing Studios centre has his own onion patch on the MacDermot estate The ...

Published: Wednesday 17 June 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 283 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... Admiralty to teach the tars. MISS ETHEL GERARD for taking the Board of Agriculture literally with a very model way of digging for victory. TH LANCING WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICE-- for being Mother Hubbards with well-stocked cupboards. CADET TONY SUTTON, of ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 463 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

People in the Lighter News

... News Digging Mr. R. S. Hudson The Minister for Agriculture moved a spadeful or two of Ranelagh Club earth when he visited the allotments there, inspected home-grown produce and in general gave his blessing and encouragement to the Ranelagh digging- for-victory ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 633 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

EXCAVATING 30 TONS PER MINUTE: The Walking Dragline Will Lay Bare Britain's Rich lronstone Deposits

... this great robot, nearly as high as Nelson's column, nearly as long as a football pitch, will play its full share in digging for victory. When completed in 1950, the Walking Dragline will operate in the Northamptonshire ironstone fields. It will tear the ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 665 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs