By Emma Palmer – Southend Echo Monday February 11, 2019
These photographs show how Southenders were really getting stuck into the ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign at the start of the Second World War.
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In 1940, every square inch of public land across the borough was transformed into makeshift allotments. Where flowers once flourished now beetroot and beans were planted, while the borough’s parks were filled with vegetable patches and greenhouses.
