Thursday 10 May 2007

Welcome to the Dig for Victory Allotment Blog

The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms in partnership with the Royal Parks will be carrying on the Dig for Victory allotment project for a second year. Due to popular demand, the Second World War allotment and modern day allotment will return in 2008 for another year of activities and events.

Dig for Victory was a Second World War campaign to help combat food shortage in Britain by promoting the planting of allotments in gardens and on public land. The campaign addressed issues that we are concerned about today – having access to fresh healthy food, being active and living sustainably.

The allotment will be open to visitors in the new year seven days a week from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Keep watching the Dig for Victory website for details of upcoming events and activities.

Leave us your comments, post a blog of your own, or visit our Flickr site and leave us photos of your own allotment.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi All
the allotment site has been a great inspiration to many people. When you come to the site you can add your feelings to the welcome book as well as write here what your thoughts are. i found that watching the marrows grow has been wonderful. not sure they will survive the rain though.. Well done...

Anonymous said...

the memories which were provoked by this visit to the allotment site were very vivid. I was transported back to the village where i used to live and there was a great flurry of excitment as the shelters arrived. We were only kids and often slept in them. it was exciting at the time. sometimes scarey but fun to.

Anonymous said...

The vegetables were always so tasty. it is good to know that children are learning where vegetables come from and they dont just come from the super market.

Anonymous said...

One night we had to stay in the anderson shelter and my dad had gone back to the house to get the cocoa. As he returned a bomb exploded close by and he fell into the shelter with all the hot cocoa. Everyone was upset but at the loss of the cocoa rather than the bomb. Bombs were an everyday occurance but cocoa was a treat.

Anonymous said...

i have been working at the allotment site in St James's Park regularly for the past 8 weeks and it is a very exciting place to be. There are loads of good stories that people tell you. There is loads of gardening to do, there is loads of wildlife to see , there is a lot to remember and learn. Please visit it is a great place.

Anonymous said...

Hi
I am a (mature) student doing some research on the physical, psychological and sociological benefits of allotments,economic and health) drawing parallels with the peak of allotment holding in 1944/45. I read somewhere that approx 1M tonne of food p/a was produced but cannot recall where I got this from. Would any readers be able to shed light on this figure?