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VE Day, 75th anniversary

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castle261:
Remember it well, the setting out of the tables, chairs, table cloth`s, then the food.
My dad did the electric lights, strung them across the street, then up the street, flags as well.
Music was plumbed in, somehow, with big speakers. the children sat down, eyeing the cakes     Everyone.worked hard, to make it a success. I was nearly eighteen -- 17 & 9/12th ---- ??? ] 8)
Dancing in the evening ---------- a great day.

alkhamhills:

Lyn L:
My Dad didn't get back from Germany until July 1945 but I wasn't born until November 46. I can remember using coupons for sweets when I was about 4 yrs old. My late sister was at Trafalgar Sq on VE day though she would have been 17. My Mum was probably at home with my two older brothers . I should ask them of their memories. I only know it was good we moved from London down to Ramsgate in 1947 or else the boys would probably  have ended up friends of the Krays  or such like  ;) . They did find a Witch Ball in a bombed out home and took it for my Mum, it was a lovely thing , wonder what else they got up to ?

Smiffy:
One of my brothers managed to acquire a couple of those signal rockets for Guy Fawkes night when I was little. One was set off from the back garden, the other was dissected on the kitchen table :o 
 
As for VE day, I wasn't born then, but I imagine that after the celebrating most people were just glad that it was all over at last and that things could get back to normal. Which they didn't entirely of course, as rationing continued for many years after. In fact, I believe that in 1954 Britain was actually the last country to end rationing.

Dave Smith:
I'm surprised that none of our other oldies haven't posted an "I remember that". I don't suppose anyone was in the forces but quite a few would have been at School, like me. Actually I don't remember whether we did go to school that day. What I do remember was the evening when the daughter in next door but one, came home from work at Chattendene with a great big box of signal/distress rockets. A 4 or 5 ft "stick" with "the business" in a tube 11/2 to 2 inches diameter & 15 or more inches long. What a display! Bigger & better than anything I'd ever seen before. Of course, there was no television to show us how the Nation was celebrating.

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