New Year’s Honours

... astounding results, the total amount raised being in the neighbourhood of £50,000. w 4 Mr. Freeman Joined whole-heartedly the Dig for Victory campaign, too; to listen to him in the Common Room Is to realise that he has mastered the finer points his art; and if ...

OUR COMMENT AND GOSSIP

... during the first world war and this second war they talked in ringing phrases not only about the glorious patriotism of digging for victory but about the vital importance of giving full encouragement to allotment holders in the future. After all these orations ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1947
Newspaper: West Sussex Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1249 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POLES IN PUS

... inasmuch as foreign competition made it cheaper for us to import than to grow. “During the last six years, however, our ‘Dig ior Victory’ campaign has greatly revived vegetable culture in England and revealed the very real and practical value of horticultural ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1947
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1526 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RELATIVES IN COURT HOUSE SOUGHT FROM BROTHER-IX-LAW

... quite comfortable, but some of the chairs were gone underneath. He spent hours on the garden and also cut the turf to dig for victory. The fruit garden had greatly improved, when be saw it three months after Miss Swiss rented .• A Dainty Hass Giving ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1947
Newspaper: Eastbourne Chronicle
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Digging for Victory? Five Sheffield United supporters, all miners, arrived at Wolverhampton at 4 a.m. to-day ..

... Digging for Victory? Five Sheffield United supporters, all miners, arrived at Wolverhampton at 4 a.m. to-day watch the Wolves v. Sheffield cup tie. They went the ground at 7.30 and helped to clear away 4ins. snow from the pitch. ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1947
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 39 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAT...., SAVIta akTIMATES !saga 4 rho !Va.iloael Sorbeee Ceradoes

... committee member of the Worthing Horticultural Society. For some years during the last war he served on the Worthing Dig for Victory committee and as a warden in Worthing Civil Defence. Last November he was appointed chairman of the West Sussex Pharmaceutical ...

Published: Friday 31 January 1947
Newspaper: Worthing Herald
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 461 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

To-day's Gossip

... Counties Show at the Oxlease, Gloucester. The Duchess last visited Cheltenham on April 29, 1942, when she came for the Dig for Victory show at the Town Hall. The Flyer /IHELTONIANS were justly proud of the Cheltenham Flyer, the 2.40 from St. James's ...

Published: Friday 31 January 1947
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1215 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SPRINGFIELD FOLK WILL LOSE THEIR ALLOTMENTS

... those people who have allotments who know the value of ihem. I think in the present food situation we had better go on digging for victory. These houses are inevitable, but Ido hope that before we are turned off these allotments. new allotments will be found ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1947
Newspaper: Chelmsford Chronicle
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

AT THE CROSS ROADS

... at last year’s Mayor-making), Mr. Bedford will be remembered for his excellent work in connection with the Borough “Dig for Victory” campaigns and shows, at which he staged some breathtaking exhibits grown on Corporation allotments. He was a committeeman ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1947
Newspaper: Surrey Mirror
County: Surrey, England
Type: | Words: 1311 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Dealt nay as others

... your family's you can't afford to do nothing, if you are ablehodied and can dig and plant and hoe. Many men--woman and children too—responded to the call to Dig for Victory and did a grand job of work throughout the war. They helped to win the vic, ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1947
Newspaper: Ashbourne Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 223 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

It's easy to bum

... excuse that you don't know how to grow food crops. There were hundre& and thousands of beginners who made good in the Dig for Victory campaign. Gardening is a friendly business and you'll And many flood Samaritans ready to help and advise you on any gardening ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1947
Newspaper: Ashbourne Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 97 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALL THE YEAR ROUND

... particularly if he can rely on the help of the housewife the way of preserving and storing the valuable food thus grown. The Dig for Victory leaflet No. 1, issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, sets out comprehensive plan for the all-the-year-round production ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1947
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 330 | Page: 5 | Tags: none