VE Day

[In the Drunk Tank]

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]

We are just going to sit in the garden have a few drinks,just family but face timing friends.

[Christmas Dynasnow]

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...

[Cherry Christmas]

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

[In the Drunk Tank]

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXfD358XsAACCc1?format=jpg

[Candy Annie Cane]

We just did the 2 mins silence.

[Kazanne]

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

[Christmas Dynasnow]

My mum remembers it!




(She had me very late in life)

[Peppermint]

Probably something a bit like Boris

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[Peppermint]

Lovely words from our PM

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[In the Drunk Tank]

Been going off in my village today, everyone getting merry outside their front doors and a proper social distancing party to some 40s tunes

[Peppermint]

Bet you were the leader of that weren't you

[michael21]

We just did the 2 mins silence.

Oh pleeep I only did one min :bawling:

[In the Drunk Tank]

Bet you were the leader of that weren't you

I have indeed been holding court all afternoon doing my bit

[James]

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]

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.