Ellen English has very kindly provided some photographs taken at a VE Day street party in Royston Avenue Laindon. The chalkboard in the first photo appears to show that there will be TEA, CAKE, VARIETY ACTS, RACES, REFESHMENTS, PRIZES and a BONFIRE. Please let us know if you recognise anyone in the photographs, or maybe you were there.
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Thank you Colin for enlarging them. The lady I thought was my mother -in-law was correct and I think Terry is on a chair in front of her.
All the entertainment and party food etc must have been great for everybody.
I think our generation owes a great deal to our parents especially our mums, a lot of food was still on rationing, so to provide all the party food was a massive effort on them.
I know a lot of fruit etc was preserved but it would all have been prepared by hand.,no popping to the shops and buy it all in packets.
It must have been a big relief for the war to be over.
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