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'Dig For Victory' couple recreate 1940s vegetable plot

A couple who love the 1940s have turned their home into a Second World War replica even cultivating their own vegetables in a Dig For Victory-style plot.

Ad Hickley and his partner Pam McMillan have decorated Rushmere Cottage in totally authentic wartime style - as they grow their own veg and rear farm animals.

Their unique home has everything as it would have been more than 60 years ago.

The rural property, near Attleborough, had scarcely changed over the decades and they realised it was the perfect place to house their cherished collection of historical books and memorabilia.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)