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Allotments SuccessA couple and their son rejoice as the first seed sprouts in their allotment
Dig for Victory poster - WWIIWorld War Two poster encouraging British civilians to dig for victory, featuring somebody doing just that
Leek Show winnersTwo prize winners at a Leek Show displaying their impressive vegetables alongside a couple of equally impressive mantel clocks, presumably their prizes
Allotments WW1" The way of the war with the allotment: the gentle art of making the most of it." A page in The Graphic, detailing allotments in 1918. Date: 1918
Comic postcard, Vegetable love, The Allotment Love Letter Date: 20th century
WW2 Birthday Card, Digging For VictoryA WW2 birthday greetings card, Hoping you're full of beans and digging for victory! The image shows a man carrying his fork and rake towards the allotment of good wishes. Date: circa 1940s
Gulf of Guinea. Coffee plantation on the island of Sao TomeHistory of Africa. 19th century. Gulf of Guinea. Coffee plantation on the island of Saint Thome. Alvaro Caminha founded the colony of Sao Tome in 1493. Engraving
The Allotments Green, East KnoyleA landscape oil painting of a farmer working in some countryside allotment fields in East Knoyle, a village in Wiltshire. Date: circa 1918
Pears Soap AdvertisementAn advertisement illustration for Pears soap, from the womanhood in war time series. The image shows a woman on an allotment, leaning on a spade handle
Allotment studies by G. E. StuddyNo. I. - Back to the land and what it fills like! To tackle food shortages, people were given plots to grow their own vegetables, in this cartoon a man is in agonising back pain
What digging for victory really means, 1940This is what Digging for Victory really means, 1940. Growing vegetables in an allotment or garden. Date: 1940
An Every-day Scene in 1917 by W. E. WigfullWomen and children working on the land take a moment to gaze up at the sky as a military aircraft flies above. 1917
Poster, Chart III, vitamins from your allotment, WW2Poster, Chart III, vitamins from your allotment - how to get enough Vitamin A and Vitamin C each day. 1940s
Firemens Farm in the Heart of the City WWIIIn the centre of London near St. Giles Cripplegate, firefighter members of the N.F.S. which station was damaged in the air raids in 1940 attend a large plot, consisting of vegetable
The Allotment
Woman on allotment - 2A woman bends over and plants onion sets in the well-prepared soil of her allotment in Northern England. The background shows ramshackle allotments and on the skyline is a church tower
Woman on allotment - 1A woman bends over and plants onion sets in the well-prepared soil of her allotment in Northern England. The background shows ramshackle allotments and on the skyline is a church tower
WW2 poster, Dig on for Victory, designed by Peter Fraser. Showing a man with home-grown vegetables and a gardening fork. Date: early 1940s
WW2 poster, Grow more food, dig for victory -- wanted 500, 000 more allotment holders, for plots of land apply to your council. Date: circa 1940
How to start an allotment during WW1Diagram in The Sphere advising readers how to start work on a raw piece of ground in order to create an allotment. The Food Production Department was keen to get around 500
Ticket Inspectors Allotment Prize Giving, 1922South East and Chatham Railway Travelling Ticket Inspectors Garden Allotment Prize Giving in Catford, July 1922. Date: 1922
Royal WW1 allotment visit, 1918: Queen Mary and pigletKing George V(1865-1936)and Queen Mary(1867-1953) inspecting small allotments in south London, 1918. Queen Mary looks delighted to be presented with a piglet from a wicker basket. Date: 1918
WW2 poster, teacher and pupils on allotmentWW2 poster (For Freedom series before lettering is added), showing a teacher and her pupils on allotment with rhubarb leaves
Waiting For The Off. Carlin Howe, N Yorks 1970s 1970s
Allotments in Fleet Street, London, WW1Quite possibly the innermost allotment in London, a plot between Fleet Street and Fetter Lane cultivated by two sisters, the Misses Kersey, where they grew cabbages, cauliflowers, beetroots
Growing vegetables for victory, WW1A page from The Graphic demonstrating the wide variety of ways the British population was growing vegetables during the First World War
Stone building, Preston, East Lothian, ScotlandAn interesting stone building in a field, Preston, East Lothian, Scotland
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Home Grown" Every pound you lend today will hasten victory on its way." A little girl and boy proudly water their window box vegetable patch - doing their bit to dig for victory during WW2
The American war effort at home - WWI - the benefits of growing ones own food on a allotment, smallholding or in the garden and also the benfits of then bottling/canning fruit and veg
If you can t go - buy war bonds Our bonds are their security!! : This hotel pledges a 100% payroll allotment. Poster encouraging purchase of war bonds
Empty allotments / W H RobinsonOn the allotment when we don t have to grow our own cabbages This post war couple use theirs for flute practice and sewing
Market garden produceA selection of market vegetables including artichokes, displayed in baskets in front of greenhouses and vegetable plots
Sphere front cover: Prince of Wales visiting unemployedFront cover from The Sphere, April 1933, showing Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor (1894-1972) inspecting the allotment gardens at Woolwich of the unemployed
Seamans Allotment NoteA seamans allotment note by which a mother has sent money to her son aboard his ship Inverness
Kitchen Garden 1940SDuring World War Two, British families were encouraged to Sow for Victory and be as self-sufficient as possible by growing their own fruit and vegetables and flowers too
Allotment Potato CropA man in a flat cap proudly harvests his splendid potato crop from his allotment
Allotment Workers Ww2Workers from the city, happily marching with their work tools over their shoulders to allotments or farms as part of the war effort
