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... winning the war, communities were forced to become at least partially selfsufficient again. The WI and the Home Guard and Digging for Victory were what kept the village going with a dogged pride which lasted those hard six vears of war. Since then the pace of ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: Sussex Express
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 2099 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

TERROR, SORROW. AND TRIUMPH

... smashed Rommel at El Alamein. There were air raids, the Dam Busters, the Burma Railway. There were landgirls, calls to Dig for Victory, the inane radio broadcasts of Lord Haw-Haw, Stalingrad, the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Amid the sorrow, there was much good ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 592 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

THURSDAY6JANUARY

... face of the British back garden over the past 100 years from declining Victorian country estates, through the wartime dig for victory and a Seventies - gnome craze, to the organic boom of the Nineties. . - .’ .;',} R SECRETS AND LINES ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 55 | Page: 116 | Tags: none

Rock 'n' Roll

... more suffering to come —the continuing air raids, the Dam Busters, the Burma Railway. There were landgirls, calls to Dig for Victory, the inane radio broadcasts of Lord Haw- Haw, Stalingrad, the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Amid the sorrow, there was much ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 2000
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 687 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

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... ton in January. An “ugly rumour” was spreading that councillors were preparing to dig up part of West Park to grow potatoes. Digging for victory was one thing. Digging up the town’s favourite beauty spot was quite another matter. A sum of £3O was immediately ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1090 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

Channel 4

... to Antarctica in pregaratio¥ for composing a new symphony. (T) 512145 . JUL L - GARDEN. The effects of World War Two's Dig for Victory campaign on the British garden, when necessity led to food replacing flowers on plots across the land - a change not always ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 2000
Newspaper: West Lancashire Evening Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

CHANNEL 4

... Peter Maxwell Davies takes a trip to Antarctica. 512145 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GARDEN. The effects of World War Two's Dig for Victory campaign on the garden. when necessity led to food replacing flowers on plots across the land a change not always popular ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 2000
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 482 | Page: 79 | Tags: none

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... 7.00 CHANNEL 4 NEWS. 199394 7.55 VOICES ON THE LINE. 512145 8.00 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GARDENMN. The effects of WW2's Dig for Victory campaig.r'\Eon the British garden. 1232 9.00 WH TRIBE. New series. Darcus Howe examines the identity crisis facing the ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 2000
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1266 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 9 January 2000 ——_ NIGH I SCREEN

... 'Antarctic Symphony. 512145 * 8.00 - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GARDEN ;- - This edition looks at Britain's =+ World War. Il Dig for Victory ‘;,u-campaign,therisingpostwar ~ popularity of the rose and TV's -2~ first man of gardening — Percy o Theowek J 232% ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 497 | Page: 139 | Tags: none

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... to Antarctica The Twentieth Century Garden. A look at everything that shaped modern gardens, from the Second World War Dig for Victory to Percy Thrower White Tribe. Darcus Howe embarks on a journey across England to investigate the identify crisis consuming ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 2000
Newspaper: Crawley and District Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 618 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

Modern food branded a kille T Experts say post-war agriculture has damaged human health and environment VIC ..

... at Cirencester, Gloucestershire, said this was in contrast to the drop in all forms of mortalities as a result of the “Dig for Victory” and organic systems adopted in the last world war. Post-war, the tu}ets were cheap food and production intensification ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 619 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Bill White, bone specialist at the Museum of London, with a skull believed to be that of a wealthy Roman woman ..

... 7.00 News (T) 199394 7.55 Voices on the Line 512145 8.00 The Twentieth Century Garden The effects of World War Two's Dig for Victory campaign on the British garden, when necessity led to food replacing flowers on plots across the land — a change not always ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 2000
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 3 | Tags: none