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Big Dig Bank Holiday competition, Camber Sands, Sussex

Aug. 08, 1967 - The Big Dig Bank Holiday Competition For 0, 000 Worth of Prizes at Camber Sands. Today 100 winners of a Gillette Super Silver competition were taking part in a Big Dig contest at Camber Sands near Rye to find 0, 000 worth of prizes, ranging from a, 000 Silver Maserati Mistral, to a racing pigeon. Each competitor, accompanied by an assistant of their own choice, was issued with shovels and allocated by ballot plots to dig on the two acres of sand where the prizes had been buried last night. Each plot contained either two or three prizes. Photo Shows: The oldest couple taking part in the Big Dig, 71 year old John Davidson and his wife Marjory, 60, from Stoneshaven, Scotland

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13260341
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Acres Allocated Ballot Buried Camber Competitor Contained Davidson Either Gillette Issued Marjory Maserati Mistral Oldest Pigeon Plot Plots Prizes Ranging Shovels Worth


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