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MTVN
08-05-2020, 09:02 AM
Are you doing anything to mark it or is anything going on around where you live? Lots of flags up here and people setting up chairs and tables outside their front doors

Suspect arista will be leading the sing a long to 'We'll Meet Again' with his neighbours later on this evening

Kazanne
08-05-2020, 09:14 AM
We are just going to sit in the garden have a few drinks,just family but face timing friends.

Crimson Dynamo
08-05-2020, 09:28 AM
I listened to Nigel interview a DDay survivor last night. Even now he hates ve day as the memories come back, vivid, after 75 years

Meanwhile we are fecked off garden centres are closed...

Cherie
08-05-2020, 10:04 AM
No, didn’t even know the bank holiday had been moved until recently...I think they should have moved it again so people could celebrate properly later in the year

MTVN
08-05-2020, 10:06 AM
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXfD358XsAACCc1?format=jpg

AnnieK
08-05-2020, 10:10 AM
We just did the 2 mins silence.

Kazanne
08-05-2020, 11:10 AM
Weve just had a Lancaster bomber fly past and another with a banner behind it saying thankyou to all our heros past and present,not gonna lie I had a lump in my throat

Crimson Dynamo
08-05-2020, 01:07 PM
My mum remembers it!




(She had me very late in life)

caprimint
08-05-2020, 01:19 PM
Probably something a bit like Boris

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caprimint
08-05-2020, 01:24 PM
Lovely words from our PM

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MTVN
08-05-2020, 07:52 PM
Been going off in my village today, everyone getting merry outside their front doors and a proper social distancing party to some 40s tunes

caprimint
08-05-2020, 07:53 PM
Bet you were the leader of that weren't you

michael21
08-05-2020, 07:57 PM
We just did the 2 mins silence.

Oh pleeep I only did one min :bawling:

MTVN
08-05-2020, 08:00 PM
Bet you were the leader of that weren't you

I have indeed been holding court all afternoon doing my bit

James
08-05-2020, 09:59 PM
These are good photographs that were colourised, and used recently on stamps.

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/04/24/03/pri149920166.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/04/24/03/pri149920279.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/04/24/03/pri149920168.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70

More here - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/new-stamps-mark-75th-anniversary-of-end-of-second-world-war-a4422761.html

More old black and white pictures from history that have been colourised, by the same person - https://www.flickr.com/photos/sparkyroy/albums/72157674547011975

Kizzy
08-05-2020, 11:59 PM
Great photos James, it's humbling to say the least. But also heartbreaking knowing that not enough was ever done post war as recompense to those who fought or were brought up in the shadow of war.