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VE DAY CELEBRATIONS .....MY MEMORY

By hobbo
VE Day and for a week or so after, there were millions of, Street-Parties in celebration.

This then is one of the photographs taken during our VE Day Street Party held in our school grounds.... the fancy dress had been judged so my cork make-up had been washed off... I am the bright little face peeping out from behind.... Wee-Willie-Winky ...in pyjamas LHS.

Our dadÂ’s and older siblings were to remain in the Forces for at least another six month.... our dad had been fighting for six years.... he had just one leave, in late 1939. So it was the overworked harassed mumÂ’s who had to find the money and rations to find contributions to the party.

Grand parents, older uncles and aunts all played their part too.....

For the whole of my Infant - junior days the war had been raging... just five miles from Coventry... we had evacuees from there.... later my friend lost both of his grandparents when a Landmine dropped on the town centre.

It may be hard today.... but insignificant to those horrendous years...

Credit to the long defunct local paper...

Hobbo

Tags: Memories Black and white

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dudler Plus
17 1.5k 1777 England
8 May 2020 8:09AM
Cyril, a fine reminder of a time that's 8 years beyond my date of birth, and a really helpful thought.

We only need to remember the people who made our world for us and it's easy to do what we need to now, including staying indoors. And, of course, to understand the importance of working together across all sorts of divides.
mike9005 Plus
11 5 United Kingdom
8 May 2020 8:23AM
Great photo.
hobbo Plus
9 1.7k 4 England
8 May 2020 8:51AM
Thank you both...

My 2 years younger brother is the bold pirate with bandana and cutlas.... he is currently paralysed in a specialist nursing home.....an amazing survivor from throat cancer and heart attacks.

Hobbo
PhilT2 Plus
11 533 31 England
8 May 2020 10:38AM
A piece of history.... Great to see !!
JohnnyBG 3 2 United Kingdom
8 May 2020 3:20PM
Well done Cyril for keeping this image safe. We can only be grateful that Churchill and not Boris or Matt Hancock were running the show else there'd be no Spitfires ordered until 1945
Mollycat Plus
7 21 2 United Kingdom
8 May 2020 3:52PM
As a lad in the Welsh Valleys the war hardly touched us. It dud take my dad though.
dimalexa 4 5 Greece
8 May 2020 4:12PM
Every place, city, country has its own memories from the war. Nowhere are pleasant. Lets take them as a lesson for us and our children for a better world!
Dimitris
rontear Plus
17 23 9 England
8 May 2020 7:25PM
Memories...…..with out photographers we would only have words.
Ron

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