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DIG FOR VICTORY

... DIG FOR VICTORY In his capacity of chairman of the Parka Committee and as an horticultural enthusiast, the Mayor-elect did much to encourage the Dig for Victory campaign during the war . His ambition is to see a sports stadium built in Croydon He ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

COUNTY TIMES AND GAZETTE SATURDAY APRIL 22 1950 5 MAJOR GRANTS TO STUDENTS Ministry suggests more generosity ..

... never be built on (3) Although this part the Park was taken over during the late war as a tern porary measure for the dig for victory campaign it still remained an open space It was for this purpose that Pitshanger Park in its entirety was originally intended ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1950
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5755 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

aiwund AL BOROUGH

... luxuries and parts of them were dug up and divided into plots on which more and more Londoners were encouraged to dig for victory. Now the victory is past history and the allotment holders find themselves considered as little better than trespassers by the ...

Published: Friday 28 July 1950
Newspaper: Kensington Post
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2426 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Back From America

... those imperative orders from the master hypnotist; those international shots in the arm—the slc)fins! “Mum's the Word” “Dig for Victory.” *Tanks a Million.” The intelligent man must despise the slogan above all the other outpourin%)s of a war of words. ne ...

Published: Friday 04 August 1950
Newspaper: Streatham News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Only too well we can recall during the war those vivid posters which confronted one almost everywhere imploring you to “Dig for Victory” but now that the day of the west is done” it is the scrap-heap for the gardener without as much as thank you In this ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1950
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3707 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Smyth And Bain On Rising Cost Of Living

... of land they take our' T he international situation does not improve. The time may come when we shall all be asked to dig for victory twice as hard.' He warned members that if they. did not keep their land tidy they; would be making it easy for those. ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1950
Newspaper: Norwood News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1603 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

COUNTY TIMES AND GAZETTE SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17 LIMITED ADVANTAGEOUS NEW MEN’S WEAR SERVICF A Better Suit Made - to -

... see that the allotments have been sweipt away Everyone will be glad to have the green grass growing again Although the “Dig for victory” campaigns may have helped to produce some vegetables during the last war I feel sure that this movement has not been ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1951
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5133 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

` Finchley Road is not Harley Street ' Continued trans Page 7 Sir Henry believed the doctor encouraged Mrs. Balk

... war when /Midi' he has a heart of rock'', the situation was also - grim * * * * • * we had the e ff ective slogans * Dig for Victory and Grow *.in the same programme is a More rood. As always in time * great new Nat Karson stae of need the farming ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1951
Newspaper: Hampstead News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1288 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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... cabbages run seed breeding ground for all the cabbage butterflies of locality This is not only legacy of the war-time “dig for victory” craze Decaying chestnut palings lean drunkenly and a miniature rubbish tip is already in being I wonder BRITI8H HOME ...

BAILEY DIGS FOR VICTORY Sprinter McDonald Bailey refused to start without starting blocks in a 100 yards ..

... BAILEY DIGS FOR VICTORY Sprinter McDonald Bailey refused to start without starting blocks in a 100 yards invitat:on rice at Berwickon-Tweed yesterday. There was a consultation with officials and Bailey waa allowed to dig a atart:ng hole with a spade. ...

Published: Tuesday 24 July 1951
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 82 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THEY PLAN TO HOLD THEIR PLOTS News Chronicle Reporter A N army of 3.000 may be seen marching through

... The 3.000 are the last of 27,000 who held temporary ground an L.C.C. parks and open spacesfirst, during the war to dig for victory, and since, to reduce their cost of living. The L.C.C. now want that land. Tomorrow, at a lunch in the City. leaders ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1951
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 215 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IN MEMORIAM

... Observer area, and at the Autumn shows we may expect the flower classes again to be spectacular features. Since the Dig for Victory days of the food campaigns gardeners have turned in greater numbers to flower culture, and especially is this trend seen ...

Published: Thursday 30 August 1951
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 464 | Page: 4 | Tags: none