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VE Day – 75th Anniversary

Posted on: 8, May, 2020
1783540 Gunner Alfred Hayes, Royal Artillery

My father, born in April 1933, remembers travelling up to the West End with my grandparents to celebrate VE Day on the 8th May 1945. The journey would have been a quick one from their home in Stoke Newington and dad recalls people hanging from lamposts and waving flags; the spontaneous kissing of strangers, and […]

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