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Does anyone else have any memories of VE Day?
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 9 May 2015 20:33 |
I was looking online at pictures from London of people celebrating last night, and dressed in 1940s styles. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 9 May 2015 20:53 |
I remember it reasonably well - as I lived up a country road there was no street party, but my paternal grandmother's road combined with the adjoining road for a party and I went there |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 9 May 2015 21:15 |
Yes I remember,I was almost 10 and I lived in a northern suburb of Manchester. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 9 May 2015 21:37 |
we had a street party, with tables down the middle of the street, and all the neighbours contributing and I do have a photo of it ................ but I don't know whether it was for VE or VJ Day. |
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Harry | Report | 9 May 2015 21:52 |
My memory as with others is of a street party with jelly and whatever else rationing could provide. I remember a very strange man coming to join us. No-one had a clue who he was, but the war was over, so who cared. Try blocking the street off these days and see what happens. A different world then. Every house had bunting stretched all the way down the street - all except one house. The owner was a nice man but a self confessed communist, but it was just accepted without the slightest bit of animosity. |
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GinN | Report | 9 May 2015 22:13 |
I don't have memories of my own - too young! But it was on that day that my Mam met my Dad at a dance, and it was love at first sight - at least for him! |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 9 May 2015 22:27 |
Were on holiday at the Argyll Arms on Bellocanty (sp) so of course the village pub was the centre of the celebrations, all I remember! |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 9 May 2015 23:27 |
I do not recall a street party but my Dad had managed to get petrol and we went out for the day and he ended up buying me a grey chinchilla rabbit. We called her Victoria - found out wrong sex so changed name to Vick. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 10 May 2015 00:15 |
Chris .............. :-D :-D |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 10 May 2015 00:17 |
The other thing I noticed looking at the photos from last night on the internet was .............. |
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Joeva | Report | 10 May 2015 00:45 |
I lived in Islington, London............ I can remember, although I was less than four at the time, there was a huge party in the centre of the flats where I lived ....... there must have been hundreds of us there with all the grown-ups singing and dancing..... I had no idea then what it was all about ........ it wasn't for years after that I learnt there had been a war.. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 10 May 2015 00:57 |
I knew that there had been a war ........ |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 10 May 2015 06:13 |
Don't remember VE day as I was still in Birmingham as a London evacuee . I didn't come home till jan 1946 .was the last evacuated child of the family to come home |
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Merlin | Report | 10 May 2015 14:04 |
I have a few,such as street parties and my Father coming home on leave prior to his demob. I just wonder if they will take as much trouble for VJ day when it arrives.For the Forgotten armies who fought in the jungles ,and the men who worked and died as slave labour on the railway in Burma, The Chindits and their like.I hope they rememberthem. **M**. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 10 May 2015 14:15 |
I was almost 6 and do vaguely remember the street party, which was in an adjacent street. I do have a photo to jog my memory. It was fancy dress for the children, I was a fairy with a wand. I also vaguely remember fireworks but not sure if that was the same day or maybe VJ day. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 10 May 2015 19:18 |
I remember the party on VJ Day as well. |
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StrayKitten | Report | 10 May 2015 19:30 |
I wasnt around for VE day, but what a lovely thread iv enjoyed reading everyones memories |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 10 May 2015 19:34 |
Thank you, Stray! |
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StrayKitten | Report | 10 May 2015 19:37 |
Reminds me of sitting on my grandads knee when i was very littke, listening to his stories of the war, quiet a homely feeling. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 10 May 2015 19:41 |
The prisoners in Japan were treated terribly ............... one of the men in the village where OH grew up had been imprisoned in Japan, and was a completely changed man after he got back. |
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