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Thanet 21313 ASSOCIATION WAS BORN IN CRISIS Garden war on rising prices

... born in an hour of national crisis, in the desperate years of the second world war when a 'besieged nation was urged to Dig for Victory. Now 3t. years later it is one of the hard cores of another crisis when our people are being asked to grow their own ...

Published: Tuesday 28 October 1975
Newspaper: Thanet Times
County: Kent, England
Type: | Words: 196 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

Cherwell District Council was week by one of its members of “ki ment holders in the teeth’ by putti to

... having a waiting list of people wanting allotments, we shall have empty allotments. ““The government wants people to dig for victory but this latest increase is far too proportic other size It was the possit Spital Fa are 68 pe list. In B people (Conserv ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1978
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Time Off Roy Plascott

... roughly made skipping rope which was all the wartime youngster cduld expect in a Christmas stocking, from ration cards to Dig for Victory posters. One setting shows a soldier sitting in a bleak war time pub with a box of gifts of ci%iarewes for the troops ...

Published: Friday 27 November 1992
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

Enjoy gardening without a garden

... that rekindled interest, for that was a time when every inch of land was needed for food production and the slogan was Dig for Victory. Growing plants in containers makes gardening a possibility for everyone. .. even people living on houseboats. There is ...

PEN PIECES. .

... being removed from the doors of the public toilets to make them free. But in Banbury the charge is going up — to 2p. DIG for Victory —that's the message from Women's Institute members in Oxfordshire. The war-time order has been adopted by the WI to help ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1975
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Y MAN'

... mill in Dennerood. are also dearly remembered by Mr. Streeter, who in wartime days took a keen personal interest in the Dig for Victory campaign._ Apart from Mr. Streeter 's failing eyesight the couple arc in comparatively good health, but are planning ...

Published: Friday 13 April 1956
Newspaper: West Sussex County Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Fl s for a blooming marriage A BOUQUET and a basket of Peter’s Church, Brackley, in Percy, aged 89, first

... lives in istry of Agriculture during the claim. brated their 60 years together Great Bourton with his wife World War Two Dig for Victory Annie, aged 91, still enjoys with a small party for family and Mary, and they have a son and campaign and continued his ...

Published: Thursday 12 August 1993
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 212 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Pleasure to pay

... Pleasure to pay AFTER more than 40 {mrdflmw ‘s countryside, “LM hu(m been .mtu) has decided to scrap the Dig for Victory policy, a ' ee S rwibdees has led to. ruthless 8 e et ‘every square .inch of the countryside _in the interests of “agricultural p ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1987
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FORMER MILTON COUNCIL OFFICER DIES MR. ARTHUR PONTIN FOUNDED LOCAL BRETHREN secretary of both the New Milton ..

... LOCAL BRETHREN secretary of both the New Milton fire brigade and the local A.R.P. wardens. besides organising the town's Dig for Victory campaign. He was called up for active service in 1942. and was given a non-combatant role as a conscientious oblector ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1986
Newspaper: New Milton Advertiser
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 212 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

111 w sort of pumpkin that fairy princesses look for!

... measures. The pumpkin has been grown without water. Mr. Stocks, who took up gardening at the beginning of the war when the Dig for Victory campaign started. said. - This pumpkin ts almost unique. Usually pumpkins thrive on water. for they consist of about ...

Published: Friday 16 October 1959
Newspaper: Tonbridge Free Press
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SWALESUPERMARKET

... 873849 i T itwith Gardening LONG GRASS, short grass no grass too long. We cut it Hourly rate. — Tel.: Sheerness 4447, DIG FOR VICTORY. Grow your own vegetables. Rotavator for hire. — Tel.: Sheerness 4447. ] ey Swale CLASSFED Lk AT D P B Yy ...

Published: Friday 02 May 1975
Newspaper: Sheerness Times Guardian
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

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... propaganda. Gardeners and allotment-holders are being urged to ‘'Dig for Victory’' again, and there is much to be said for simijlar campaéglmg urgency to go behind a ‘‘Save for Victory” movement in which everything re-usable, from bones — for use as glues ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1978
Newspaper: Kent Evening Post
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 22 | Tags: none