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Terry may dig for victory

... Terry may dig for victory THE state of the pitch at the Athletic Ground is giving officials of Maidstone United an outsize headache. “We're definitely going %o do something about it even if it's only boring holes in the ground,”” declared manager Terry ...

Published: Tuesday 06 January 1976
Newspaper: South Eastern Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

“M Stones dig for victory Only

... “M Stones dig for victory Only : by GORDON €ARPENTER AFTER the rain that rulned the first two d-g of the o #mm“ e county are faced with the mlfl in the Benson and Hedges Cup um.:u lstgg 3'-.5. N-d 11..- mh order to qualify. Tomorrow’s opponents at ...

Published: Friday 06 May 1977
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

rl Kent Memories fl Groups form to dig for victory and truth

... rl Kent Memories fl Groups form to dig for victory and truth A monthly KM series looking back at events in Kent 50 and 25 years a%'o, by ALAN BIGNELL iy IR e BECAUSE of official 'm censorship it was not until the first week of February that the Kent Messenger ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1990
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 725 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Albert’

... Albert’ ALLOTMENT holder Albert Brownisa real dig for victory - The way he had cultivated his plot near his home at Berwyn THERE'S § LEE DA\ THE SPECIAL It’s not our nature to brast of .this year we believe we's competitors who do not se To celebrate ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1977
Newspaper: South Eastern Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PROUD YEAR FOR FEDERATION CHAIRMAN

... very strongly linked in the war years with that of the late Mr. H. C. Elsdon, when they were both leaders in the famous “Dig for Victory” campaign in Kent. Mr, Taylor, who is at present headmaster of the Canterbury Road County Primary School, Sittingbourne ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1959
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

School salute to time long

... the school’s history into a . It illustrated bomb in 1944 and classes which came to the fore in World War Two in the Dig for Victory campaign. Old photographs and school board minutes 'were on display. Al George, who hnmk‘q - Staplehurst, found his name ...

Published: Friday 27 May 1988
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 3 | 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

Albert’s victory dig

... Albert’s victory dig ALLOTMENT holder Albert Brownisa real dig for victory - The way he had cultivated his plot near his home at Berwyn Grove, Loose, has made him champion of Maidstone council’s 850 allotment tenants, for the third year running. - He ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1977
Newspaper: South Eastern Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 261 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The women who dug for victory

... The women who dug for victory DURING the war, the women of the Land Army donned dungarees and green jumpers to help dig for victory. Farmers were sceptical at first, as conscripted town girls arrived to help with the harvest. But in a short time, the ...

Published: Friday 02 June 1995
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 293 | Page: 61 | Tags: none

‘GIVE BACK COMMON LAND’> CALL BY TOWNSFOLK

... public house, Walmer, is leading the fight for the return of the land, which was cultivated at the inception of the “Dig for Victory” campaign. She says the land should be returned as a ‘“traditional playground for local children.” Mrs. Minter is being ...

Published: Friday 20 November 1959
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Classic work given fine replanting Gardening HARRY SMITH

... of that classic paperback The Vegetable Garden Displayed. Launched by the Royal Horticultural Society as part of the Dig For Victory campaign, and splendidly illustrated with photographs tgken at @ Wisley, the work soon became a textbook in its own right ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1992
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Englandlives on

... at Holmesdale Community School, Snodland, has been running successfully since the 19405. It originated as part of the Dig for Victory campaign, when playing fields were ploughed up in order to grow vegetables. In the 1950 s cattle and pigs were intro- ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1998
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 829 | Page: 38 | Tags: none