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You are here: Home>Herts history>Topics>World War Two>VE Day - 75th Anniversary

VE Day - 75th Anniversary

On 08 May 2020, we mark 75 years since the Allied Forces announced Victory in Europe.

We hope you enjoy this exhibition and will share your family stories in the comments box at the end of each section.  Alternatively, you can submit photos along with your story.

Check back on 08 May for special audio recordings.

  • VE Day Exhibition

    VE Day Exhibition (5)

  • Special Audio Recordings for VE Day

    Special Audio Recordings for VE Day (6)

  • Family memories and commemorations in 2020

    Family memories and commemorations in 2020 (8)

World War Two
  • A German Spy in London Colney
  • A Hard Life But a Happy One
  • A Vital Link
  • An unknown wartime R.A.F. p.o.w.
  • And so the bells were silent
  • ARP Group, Peartree Lane, WGC
  • ARP Recruiting Office in Watford
  • ARP Warden post C4a (Harpenden?)
  • Baby Respirator
  • Berlin to Helmstedt Movement Order
  • Blackout Aids in Watford
  • Bombed in the war
  • Bovingdon Memories – At War
  • Boxmoor
  • Dacorum Home Guard WW2
  • Digging Shelters in Welwyn Garden City
  • Distribution of Gas Masks at Cheshunt School, 1938
  • Dog Respirator
  • Evacuees Arriving in Welwyn Garden City
  • Evacuees in Hertfordshire
  • Evacuees to Weston, nr Hitchin, Hertfordshire
  • Frank Smith
  • From London to Cottered in Wartime
  • Glebe Farm, Offley
  • Gwendoline Page – From Boreham Wood To Bletchley
  • Home Guard
  • Home Guard at County Hall
  • Home Guard Bus Garage Group, Watford
  • Home Guard Experiences of Ernest Maurer
  • Home Guard, D-Day and Beyond
  • Italian POWs at Harvest
  • John Robert Scales
  • Knebworth during the Second World War
  • Leonard Frederick Butler
  • Letchworth Invasion Plan circa 1941
  • Liberator Bomber crash
  • Liberator bomber crash memorial
  • Liberator Bomber Crash Waltham Cross 1944
  • Lieutenant John D. Ellis
  • Living in St Albans during WW2
  • Living in St Albans during WW2 cont'd
  • London fire
  • Long Days and Hard Work
  • Markyate Home Guard
  • Memories of Thundridge Part 1
  • Mum's Story
  • My Teenage War
  • Photo of The War Memorial, Berkhamsted taken from The Court Cinema.
  • Potato Water
  • Preparing for war - 1938
  • Preperations for War 1938
  • Puttenham is Thankful
  • R.A.F Reserve School Pupils at Panshanger Aerodrome
  • Resources for Schools
  • Sergeant Stanley Henry Welch
  • Shelter in the Storm
  • Some Memories of Markyate during the 2nd World War.
  • Street Scene in Watford, September 1939
  • Tess Road Police Station WW2
  • The Bridge over the Kwai
  • The forgotten fireman cheats death by seconds
  • The Franklin Avenue, Ripley Way and Bakers Road VE Day Party
  • The last bomb to land on British soil.
  • The Observer Corps
  • The Women's Land Army in Hertfordshire
  • Unloading Anderson Shelter in Watford
  • V2 hits the Brush Factory at Waltham Cross
  • VE Day Party in Sandpits Road, WGC
  • War Time Colney Heath
  • War work at Ballito
  • Wartime Memories
  • Wartime Potters Bar
  • Was this a Hertford Man?
  • Watford in WW II
  • WOMEN'S LAND ARMY - during WW2
  • Woolmer Green Home Guard
  • WW2 Information Leaflets
  • Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
  • Battle of Britain Exhibition
  • VE Day - 75th Anniversary
  • Evacuees
  • Wartime letters
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