Allotment Collection

Allotments Success
A couple and their son rejoice as the first seed sprouts in their allotment

Dig for Victory poster - WWII
World War Two poster encouraging British civilians to dig for victory, featuring somebody doing just that

Leek Show winners
Two 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 Victory
A 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 Tome
History 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 Knoyle
A landscape oil painting of a farmer working in some countryside allotment fields in East Knoyle, a village in Wiltshire. Date: circa 1918

Pears Soap Advertisement
An 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. Studdy
No. 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, 1940
This 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. Wigfull
Women 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, WW2
Poster, 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 WWII
In 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 - 2
A 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 - 1
A 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 WW1
Diagram 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, 1922
South 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 piglet
King 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 allotment
WW2 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, WW1
Quite 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, WW1
A 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, Scotland
An 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 Robinson
On 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 produce
A selection of market vegetables including artichokes, displayed in baskets in front of greenhouses and vegetable plots

Sphere front cover: Prince of Wales visiting unemployed
Front 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 Note
A seamans allotment note by which a mother has sent money to her son aboard his ship Inverness

Kitchen Garden 1940S
During 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 Crop
A man in a flat cap proudly harvests his splendid potato crop from his allotment

Allotment Workers Ww2
Workers from the city, happily marching with their work tools over their shoulders to allotments or farms as part of the war effort

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