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... Youngsters get digging for victory Shis solemn faced group of youngsters did their bit to help Bookham Village cope with food shortages during the first world war They are pictured right with spades and hoes get ting ready to dig for victory Photograph lent ...
... often consisted of roast rabbit Allotments were highly popular to grow your own vegetables and everyone was encouraged to dig for victory When you could get eggs they came in wooden boxes and the taste was often vile Better was the American dried egg powder ...
... icklan FURNISHERS LL the war effort The Mirror’s gardening correspondent Roy Hay headed his column for January 24 1941 “Dig for Victory -preparing for the spring offensive” Merchant ships bringing imported foods were a target for enemy destroyers and it ...
... July 1940 and here’s your chance: Shinner’s shilling day Saturday July 20” Meanwhile the Ministry of Food’s vigorous “Dig For Victory” campaign was gaining ground - hundreds of acres of it in suburban gardens and council allotments Chrysanthemums and dahlias ...
... winter approached the work changed but it was less of a toil by David Johns Digging ditches cutting hedges and clearing land trees and shrubs as part of the Dig for Victory campaign were just few of the tasks Shire horses big and gentle hold an espedaUy ...
... Leatherhead opened up its basement and the Old Cottage Hospital had an Anderson shelter in the grounds As part of the Dig for victory campaign the girls grew vegetables after an allotment was made on a patch of waste land behind the canteen The girls helped ...
... in the area on farms in walking distance of home ment on the now Waterfields estate where everyone was encouraged to “Dig for Victory” We grew all our vegetables and potatoes which helped with the rationing Now rationing was quite a headache -how far could ...
... Worksop Inside them the trust’s collections include an estimated 8000 oil paintings 1000 sculptues and one million books “Dig For Victory” during the second world war and the push for economic recovery immediately after threatened a serious decline in another ...
... Special competition classes in the show had been devised including a victory table decoration “Dig for Victory best cropped garden a rationed lunch photographs crafts and a children's victory poster Among the prize winners was Mary Dennis who carried off five ...
... capture has yet been made 1940 (SO yean ago): Leatherhead and district has done well in responding to the appeal to “Dig for Victory” Apart from the cost this change will disrupt pupils teachers and schools and bring about unecessaiy closures all at a ...
... flowers gardens and lawns down to vegetables so taken altogether Leatherhead Ward can be said to be doing its bit in the “Dig for Victory” campaign The cost of furnishing the new Leatherhead Cottage Hospital will run into a considerable figure and arrangements ...
... are completed they seem to me to be unduly cramped with no room to grow vegetables If the cry “Dig for Victory” even comes again there will be nothing to dig and might add that one useful way to keep fit will have gone When we arrived Bookham 12 years ...