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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Charliebfc, post: 187783, member: 3230&quot;]Now some Shop display items ,</p><p>[ATTACH=full]52817[/ATTACH]John players weights cigarette produced in competition against other leading brands at the time 1920s</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]52820[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]52821[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]52822[/ATTACH]</p><p>Nice bit of Edwardian quackery ,</p><p><br /></p><p>Hall’s Coca Wine – the self-proclaimed “Elixir of Life”. This was a restorative with a surprising ingredient: Cocaine!</p><p><br /></p><p>Coca wine was made from the leaves of the<i> Erythroxylum Coca</i> plant. In the late 1800s and early 1900s coca leaves were thought to have great medicinal value and many brands of coca wine were created.&nbsp; This advert was an insert in a magazine and some of the supposed health benefits of the wine are listed on the reverse. These include “Sleeplessness, Bronchitis, Neuralgia, Influenza, Anaemia, Mental Fatigue, Exhaustion” and if that weren’t enough, they also claim it treats menstrual disorders, or “sickness, so common to ladies” as they put it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]52823[/ATTACH]</p><p>Original wartime poster</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>T</b>he Ministry of Agriculture launched one month on from the outbreak of the Second World War, one of the most memorable slogans of the whole conflict - &#039;Dig for Victory&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>From this point on, the whole of Britain&#039;s home front were encouraged to transform their private gardens into mini-allotments.&nbsp; It was believed, quite rightly, that this would not only provide essential crops for families and neighbourhoods alike, but help the war effort by freeing up valuable space for war materials on the merchant shipping convoys.&nbsp; Indeed, over just a few months, Britain saw its green and pleasant land transformed with gardens, flowerbeds and parkland dug up for the plantation of vegetables.</p><p><br /></p><p>By 1943, over a million tons of vegetables were being grown in gardens and allotments.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the course of the war, many propagandist moves were made to promote the importance of &#039;growing your own&#039;.&nbsp; In addition to the circulation of familiar Ministry of Agriculture &#039;food flashes&#039;, literature and poster displays, anthems were also introduced.&nbsp; One such &#039;Dig for Victory&#039; anthem went;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>“Dig! Dig! Dig! And your muscles will grow big </b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Keep on pushing the spade</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Don’t mind the worms </b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Just ignore their squirms </b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>And when your back aches laugh with glee </b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>And keep on diggin’ </b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Till we give our foes a Wiggin’ </b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Dig! Dig! Dig! to Victory</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><a href="http://www.homesweethomefront.co.uk/web_pages/hshf_dig_for_victory_pg.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.homesweethomefront.co.uk/web_pages/hshf_dig_for_victory_pg.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.homesweethomefront.co.uk/web_pages/hshf_dig_for_victory_pg.htm</a></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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