Big Dig bank holiday competition, Camber Sands
Aug. 08, 1967 - The Big Dig bank holiday competition for 60, 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 60, 000 worth of prizes ranging from a 6, 000 Silver Maserati Mistral, to a racing pigeon. Each competitor, accompanied by an assistant of their choice, were issued shovels and allocated plots to dig on the two acres of sand where the prizes had been buried last night. Each Plot has buried on it either two or three prizes. Photo shows Carol Jones (Miss Bournemouth 1963) is pictured with her partner David Ball of Bournemouth, digging thier plot for the buried prizes, They won a Churchill Crown and a caravan with their first dig
