How will you be celebrating VE Day during the Lockdown ??

[marymck]

Bentley Priory’s VE Day Party recipes that with a bit of help small children could probably make (though I don’t know that a 1945 Forest Hill child would use grams!)

Rock cakes

Rock-Cakes.pdf

Carrot cake (to see in the dark with!)
https://bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Carrot-Cake.pdf

Honey biscuits
https://bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Honey-Biscuits.pdf

[FashionClearance]

Thank you so so much @marymck for all of the thoughtful & fascinating info and links - we had a lovely day , sharing mars bars , dancing in the living room and watching the bbc coverage! I hope your enjoying also x

[anon5422159]

Remembering VE Day from the doorstep

Jim Radford, 91, from Honor Oak Park in south-east London, celebrated VE Day on 8 May 1945 in Hull by jiving for five hours in the street.

At the age of 15, he had not long returned to the UK after joining the Royal Navy’s invasion of Europe.

“I was at sea from early 1944 until just before VE Day, but I saw a lot of action of course. I was 15. They told me I was the youngest there,” he said.

“I remember VE Day very well. It was an incredible day, a great sense of elation and jubilation. We were dancing in the streets all night long. It was a great night, one big open air party, everybody was on the street.”

He said one similarity between now and the war was the sense of community.

“People are helping each other out more. I think that we were deprived then, and we’re being deprived now to some extent and it means we can relate to each other better.”

[marymck]

I’m so glad you and your son had a fun day and got to make some happy memories. Here’s to many more