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Dig this new way of saving

... Dig this new way of saving MORE Medway people are digging for victory in the battle against rising prices. Local councils are facing a growing demand for allotments and many of the applications are from women. It seems fi answer to household budget problems ...

Published: Friday 12 October 1973
Newspaper: Kent Evening Post
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 222 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

GARDENING

... growing their own fruit and vegetables. And 1 shall _not be surprised if a campaign is launched on the It’gd the wartime ‘‘dig for victory”. . Not everybody, of course, has a garden suitable for growing food crops, but there are already signs of a demand for ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1973
Newspaper: Kent Evening Post
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 557 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

N N S Y T e

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

Published: Friday 13 January 1978
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 642 | Page: 75 | 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

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

Mercury Memories

... of pneumonia following an attack of influenza, is now progressing towards convalescence. ¢ Residents will be able to dig for victory in Sandwich. Two acres of land at Sandwich is to be used for . nts, councillors decided this week. - A consignment of ...

Digging for victory

... Digging for victory IN 1974 18-year-old Hugh Edeleanu started his plant hire business from his parents’ back garden near Gravesend. He continued to operate the business while gaining an engineering degree at Cambnidge And he now heads the £7 millionearning ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1990
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 347 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Greed whittling away at our precious farmland

... forgetten the food rationing, the shortages and the sinking of the merchant ships bringing us food? In those times it was “Dig for Victory.” Everyone grew their own vegetables where possible, in back r.rdens and allotments. armers were paid to plough up meadows ...

Published: Friday 16 March 1990
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Memories of battle triumph, sadness and excitement

... to ride into Hythe to shop. And there, when tied to a convenient lamp-post, Smith’s indignant neighs would bring “the dig-for-victory gardeners: running, buckets and shovelsattheready. ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1990
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 693 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Old soldier digs for victories

... Old soldier digs for victories exhibit in the show, June Dean. Tom Coombes Memorial Cup for gladioli, Jean Sudell; Mary Rothermel Challenge Trophy for cookery, Bea Barber; T. Denne and Sons Trophy for a collection of vegetables and flowers, J. Johnson ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1994
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

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... of winter, cold water to wash in, rice pudding, greens, stone hot water bottles, lawns dug up for potatoes under the Dig for Victory scheme. They don’t compare with soft toilet tissue, washingbup liquid you can blow bubbles with, well-stocked chemists ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1995
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 628 | Page: 16 | Tags: none