Remarkable V.E day(and aftermath) images

[treelover]

Amazing V.E day(and later morning) colourised images, many very moving and a couple some looking remarkably like after a Reclaim The Streets event! 45 style, sans U/Jack.

VE Day pictures recreated in colour showing incredible victory jubilation

VE Day colour photographs show people dancing in the streets, Union Jacks fluttered on every building and children tucking into feasts on street parties as Britain celebrates

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[treelover]

Brighton

 

[treelover]

London

 

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[treelover]

finally, one for the road, up yours adolf!

 

[editor]

It must have been the piss up of piss ups.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Amazing V.E day(and later morning) colourised images, many very moving and a couple some looking remarkably like after a Reclaim The Streets event! 45 style, sans U/Jack.

VE Day pictures recreated in colour showing incredible victory jubilation

VE Day colour photographs show people dancing in the streets, Union Jacks fluttered on every building and children tucking into feasts on street parties as Britain celebrates

www.mirror.co.uk

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Why does that make me think off The Who ?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

My mum and her twin brother were born on 30th January 1946, about 6 weeks early, as twins are want to do....

 

[editor]

Why does that make me think off The Who ?

This is why

 

[Argonia]

My grandfather was serving in the Navy right up to VJ Day so no piss-up for him.

 

[JimW]

Is the "Get Up Those Stairs" thing on the party hats the saucy comment I think it is?

 

[The39thStep]

Great photos Treelover. You'd think they would have some sort of Public Holiday for this.

 

[Sweet FA]

Is the "Get Up Those Stairs" thing on the party hats the saucy comment I think it is?

Sounds it; there was a tune called Get Up Them Stairs, Mademoiselle but it's from 1946/47. The girls wearing the hats look too young though. The girl on the right looks to have You've Had It Chum on her hat which might be a Billy Cotton b-side from 1943. (Written and sung by Alan Breeze who later wrote I've got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts).

 

[Indeliblelink]

It must have been the piss up of piss ups.

I think when the government finally allows the pubs to re-open we might see similar. VC Day maybe.

 

[Ax^]

Think that was the plan but looks unlikely atm

be luck to be in a pub in july methinks

 

[Hollis]

Colouration of photos really does work well for WW1 and 2, this looks so much more contemporary. But I wonder if for loads of folk there were really mixed feelings at the time - I expect most families in Britain had lost atleast 1 family member.

 

[Pickman's model]

BBC - WW2 People's War - VE Day in Burma

As a member of the 14th Army in Burma I was amongst an assortment of vehicles on the banks of the River ...

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[JimW]

My grandfather was serving in the Navy right up to VJ Day so no piss-up for him.

My grandad had been a POW then they escaped near the end of the war as discipline at the camp got slack with guards being pulled for the Russian Front etc. Him and a couple of mates were being hid by a German family in their pigsty when they heard the war had ended then walked back West until they hit allied lines. Closest they came to getting shot was when they saw a US armoured column, came out the trees to announce themselves and a firefight broke out with some Germans behind them! What with that and their debrief they apparently got back later than their mates who had still been in the camp when it was liberated.

 

[The39thStep]

Sounds it; there was a tune called Get Up Them Stairs, Mademoiselle but it's from 1946/47. The girls wearing the hats look too young though. The girl on the right looks to have You've Had It Chum on her hat which might be a Billy Cotton b-side from 1943. (Written and sung by Alan Breeze who later wrote I've got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts).

Both my parents joined up into the RAF during the war after leaving school. I can remember as a kid my father saying 'You've Had It Chum'. My mother used to tell me that if it hadnt been for the war she' d have been stuck in the mining village she grew up , her only paid job before that was working in a pet shop. My father flew Halifaxs and Lancasters bombing Germany and helped train Americans for day light bombing raids , he had loads of photos. After the war he had a nervous breakdown . Obviously my mum didnt fly planes she used to drive wagons and escort the planes back into hangers, was a chauffer amongst other things. She used to say that the war taught her that women could do the same jobs as men. Always made me laugh when she used to tell me about all the blokes she met and dancing and drinking. Ironically her experience in the war liberated her. They always remembered VE day..

 

[Sweet FA]

Thanks The39thStep, really interesting.

 

[treelover]

My grandad had been a POW then they escaped near the end of the war as discipline at the camp got slack with guards being pulled for the Russian Front etc. Him and a couple of mates were being hid by a German family in their pigsty when they heard the war had ended then walked back West until they hit allied lines. Closest they came to getting shot was when they saw a US armoured column, came out the trees to announce themselves and a firefight broke out with some Germans behind them! What with that and their debrief they apparently got back later than their mates who had still been in the camp when it was liberated.

that is so similar to my dad, even to being hidden by a german family, when he went back to the camp, the yanks asked him who had treated them badly and who they wanted bumped off.

 

[Sprocket.]

My uncle was stuck in Burma with The Gurkhas, he got back home around Christmas 1945. He never spoke of his experiences, other than the rain, mud, shit food. Though I do have his Kukri, safely stashed of course.
It was only at his funeral in 2006 we found out he’d been mentioned in despatches on three occasions.
My dad’s eldest brother escaped from Dunkirk. He was a bombardier in the RA, anti-aircraft battery.
They got stuck on armed merchant ships on the artic convoys. He is lying about 300 miles SW of Bear Island, after being KIA in September 42 on PQ18. Torpedoed by a JU88.
But all our family of that generation always spoke about the sheer joy of VE night. And always said they would do it again.

 

[Deadstick 1944]

My grandfather was serving in the Navy right up to VJ Day so no piss-up for him.

Same for my Uncle who was serving on HMS Victorious aircraft carrier in the Pacific,his Brother my Dad was still in Northern Germany serving with the Coldstream Guards,he didn't come home until 1946.

 

[Sprocket.]

My dad btw volunteered and was in the RAF by April 39. He was ground crew in bomber command. Problem was he was a qualified mine engineer and by November 1943 he was redeployed back into the mining industry when they realised what he was. So he was the only one of the brothers back in the UK on VE Day.
His youngest brother was somewhere in Germany. He was a cook.
I still have some letters written between them during the war, they are some of my most treasured possessions.

 

[editor]

More ace pics here

Happy and Glorious! Fantastic Pictures of VE Day in London, 1945 - Flashbak

London's party that ended all parties - one week after Hitler's suicide.

flashbak.com

 

[editor]

Love this one

 

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[Steel Icarus]

My grandfather was serving in the Navy right up to VJ Day so no piss-up for him.

Aye, people forget that. Someone on my work Teams this morning out "Let's celebrate VE Day, the end of WWII, on here today

 

[The39thStep]

North Manchester

 

[Deadstick 1944]

My dad btw volunteered and was in the RAF by April 39. He was ground crew in bomber command. Problem was he was a qualified mine engineer and by November 1943 he was redeployed back into the mining industry when they realised what he was. So he was the only one of the brothers back in the UK on VE Day.
His youngest brother was somewhere in Germany. He was a cook.
I still have some letters written between them during the war, they are some of my most treasured possessions.

Interesting,those items are indeed treasure,i have a few of my Dads,his service medals and a diary he was using,the diary was a German army issue so must have come from a German soldier,the entries are not detailed but i can trace my Dads journey from France to Germany ending in Bremerhaven,also have some very grim photos of Bergen Belsen after his unit entered the camp, looking forward tomorrow of hearing other stories about VE day on the TV.