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RIBITION A Ministry of Information exhibition, to which admission is free, opens today (Friday) at the Carnegie ..

... the Carnegie Central Library, Brook Green Road, Hammermsith. It deals with New Life to the Land and should help all to dig for victory. The exhibition is open from 9 a.m. until blackout, from Monday to Saturday of each week until November 13th. GO GREYHOUND ...

were top of the British pops. Well-loved comedians like Tommy Handley and his ITMA (It's That Man Again) would give

... reasonably good supply was always a good filler. Gardens and allotments were always in full swing, encouraged by the Dig for Victory slogan. Many families kept their own chickens. Although the church bells were silenced in the war, the churches were ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1998
Newspaper: Pinner Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 152 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Wandered

... leaving in a chauffeur-driven car. Verdict: ' Accidental death. Traffic gets Peter down A RCIITECT Peter Harrison plans to dig for victory over the traffic that roars past his door. He has applied for planning permission to build a tunnel under the road outside ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1973
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 166 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The kitchen garden

... anniversary of the first appearance of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Vegetable Garden Displayed (its contribution to the Dig for Victory campaign), which has proved over the years to be one of its most popular and respected publications. It has now been ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1992
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

Wartime posters worth a bomb

... measures 40in by 25in and we think they'll go for £4OO-£600. Bird creator of the Careless Talk series. They included the Dig For Victory campaign and H M Bateman's set of eight Coughs And Sneezes Spell Diseases. The posters cover every aspect of the war, ...

Published: Tuesday 28 February 1995
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 216 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

How Guinness went down

... book about the Park Royal company's advertising. Guinness went to war with a poster which combined the Government's Dig for Victory with its own Guinness for Strength slogan. It coincides with the brewery's latest Genius theme, but it is more a nostalgic ...

in the good old days..

... g has reflected the changing fortunes of Britain. Guinness went to war with a poster which combined the Government's Dig for Victory with its own Guinness for Strength slogan. In the 1950 s a new poster appeared on the hoardings, showing a jovial sun ...

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

NAKED SWORDSMAN IN A BATTLE WITH THE POLICE

... youth brandishing a cur ve d Hg for. Victory 40in. sword. And the youth became violent when he saw the police cars draw up -in the street, in Sunnyvale, California man is dead THE man who invented the Dig for Victory ,logan during the Second World War ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1967
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 222 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... recalls many instances of his good qualities. Mr. Sparks first joined Pitshanger Allotment Society in 1917 when the Dig for Victory campaign was in full cry. He was its treasurer for many years. He did a great de.ii of Dark on the societo Trading Committee ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1962
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 238 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

LISTINGS ROUND-UP _ _

... and Latin American dancing beginners class, St Andrews Church hall, Malvern Avenue, Rayners Lane, £2.50, 8.30-10.30 pm. DIG For Victory Exhibition, Ivor Nature Study Centre, Slough Road, Iver Heath, until May 12. Sunday NIGHT cycle ride, 10-15 miles, meet ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1995
Newspaper: Harefield Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 198 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

THE LEADER Allotments' green team still growing strong 81 years on AN ALLOTMENT association which helped the ..

... THE LEADER Allotments' green team still growing strong 81 years on AN ALLOTMENT association which helped the nation 'dig for victory' during the Second World War has celebrated its 81st annual show. The Ealing and Hanwell Allotment Association's flower ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1998
Newspaper: Ealing Leader
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 250 | Page: 8 | Tags: none