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1:1()11(111'• HAS TO DIG FO' VICTORY

... HAS TO DIG FO' VICTORY ITERE is an utterly shameful story. Every four years we set out for Helsinki, Melbourne, Rome, Tokio—and wherever the 1968 Olympic Games will be held—with more hope than promise in our hearts. After each successive Olympic Games ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1961
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 562 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

SERPENT

... on country life, including, for example, stories about evacuation, the difficulties of travel, and the results of the Dig for Victory cam- Hut- paign.-NORMAN LONGMATE, Hutchinson Ltd., 178 Great Portland tree/, London, Wl. ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1967
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 85 | 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

MIRROR, Mgch 26, 1967 PAGE 33 , . • .. i . ALES BIKE O IS N J A

... into his h 'n basket. the Alf leaves his mint- bike propped against the kerb as he finishes off h shopping. . Miners dig for victory Sunday Mirror Reporter BRITAIN Stat e acroealcligignindugstit'yll B re o d a . r otiations, at A HEADMASTER raPPed starting ...

Published: Sunday 26 March 1967
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 635 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

JOAN RYDER: The first of a series in which some of Britain's leading business women are interviewed by ..

... companies. War brought a temporary interruption to her studies. While Ryder's were busy supplying vegetable seeds for the Dig for Victory campaign, she spent three and a half years as commandant of an inter-Services convalescent hospital at Hassobury Park ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1144 | Page: 48 | Tags: Photographs 

LIGHTING OF SIDE STREETS -STAGE 4

... or potential productive resources and manufacturing resources of the district . . . Harrow Council decides to hold a Dig for Victory week. The film In Which We Serve attracts record attendances at cinemas Man fined £441) for selling clothing to his ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1968
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 897 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

OBITUARY

... Westminster vegetables on The Green in Salter: Ada and Dick Mor- nie and Harry Wilson; David Rank. W. 6: Jim and Joyce the Dig for Victory dass. gan: Miss Hacker and Mr. Selwood (Allards); Mr. and Deintree: William H. Pen He was a committee member Miller; ...

MT DlARY—fit/Nate

... to grow more food additional emergency plots became available and the membership steadily increased. During the war a Dig for Victory show was held annually at which the produce was sold afterwards for Red Crois funds. Since the war the association has ...

Published: Thursday 29 December 1960
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1209 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

The state of local show business

... feud over the amount of space taken by the market produce people. It started in 1946, the first show after the war. The Dig for Victory society, having merged with the local Horti cultural Society and the Handicraft Club, asked if they might be given some ...

C 0 U N TRY LIF E-0 CT 0 BE R 5, 19 6 7

... country life, including, for example, stories about evacua- tion, the difficulties of travel, and the results of the Dig for Victory cam- paign.-NORMAN LONGMATE, Hut- chinson Ltd., 178 Great Portland tree/, London, Wl. See letter: Viclorian Success on ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1967
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2388 | Page: 85 | Tags: none

Getting through to the farmer

... for a short while the nation's number one hero. He was the man who would prevent us from being starved out, who would dig for victory (along with all the gardeners and allotment holders) until he dropped, who would never complain about the hours he worked ...