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On this day 60 years ago my mum's friend Olive,
who then lived in Southampton, was woken by ships sirens going off
to announce an end to the war in Europe, while Thelma
who worked at Slazengers mill (then producing munitions) at Horbury
Bridge heard the news announced on the Tannoy at work. Church bells
rang for the first time since September 1939 (to have heard them
in the intervening years would have been a warning that an invasion
had started) and in the evening, she remembers, people simply headed
for Carr Lodge park and walked around, rather quietly.
After dinner my mum tells a story of Sheffield Blitz
which, in 1965, when I was aged 14, I turned into a picture strip
story in my long-running school day's project Exercise Book
Encyclopaedia. Follow the link below for the full story:
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