Saw a mention in the news that today is the 68th Anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe). My two main memories of that day are these:
Nearly everyone had Union Jack flags up at their windows. Our neighbour Mrs Neely's flag fell off and blew down the street. I was given the job of running after it and bringing it back. I managed to catch it OK.
Then in the evening I was taken out my my father to the bonfires. First to the one in the square opposite 59 Sunnylaw Street, then to others nearby. My father got annoyed with me because I wouldn't throw the wood he had given me onto the bonfire. I wanted to keep it.
Really odd to think that such times are now part of history. And dim and distant history at that.
Don't know why but I went back this evening to Sunnylaw Street to see where these bonfires had been. Completely changed now of course and new housing where the house we lived in was. But managed to see very roughly where the bonfires of that night would have been.
I don't know if this kind of thing is good for me or not!
Nearly everyone had Union Jack flags up at their windows. Our neighbour Mrs Neely's flag fell off and blew down the street. I was given the job of running after it and bringing it back. I managed to catch it OK.
Then in the evening I was taken out my my father to the bonfires. First to the one in the square opposite 59 Sunnylaw Street, then to others nearby. My father got annoyed with me because I wouldn't throw the wood he had given me onto the bonfire. I wanted to keep it.
Really odd to think that such times are now part of history. And dim and distant history at that.
Don't know why but I went back this evening to Sunnylaw Street to see where these bonfires had been. Completely changed now of course and new housing where the house we lived in was. But managed to see very roughly where the bonfires of that night would have been.
I don't know if this kind of thing is good for me or not!
