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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. Top two photographs show flower beds in Finsbury Park given over to vegetable plots, the middle image shows a potato plot in front of Buckingham Palace and the bottom three show London County Council employee growing vegetables and tomatoes in a greenhouse in a London park

Picture No
14101563
Media ID
45465151
Size
3600px x 5234px (2.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Page from The Graphic, 18 August 1917
Date
1917

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Allotment Allotments Beds Finsbury Greenhouse Plots Shortage Shortages Vegetable Vegetables


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