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You are here: Home>Herts history>Topics>World War Two>VE Day

VE Day

On 08 May 2020, we marked 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.

  • Life on the Home Front
    Life on the Home Front
    A snapshot of life on the Home Front
  • 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 American in Tewin
  • An unknown wartime R.A.F. p.o.w.
  • And so the bells were silent
  • Baby Respirator
  • Berlin to Helmstedt Movement Order
  • Blackout Aids in Watford
  • Bombed in the war
  • Bovingdon Memories – At War
  • Boxmoor
  • Digging Shelters in Welwyn Garden City
  • Distribution of Gas Masks at Cheshunt School, 1938
  • Dog Respirator
  • 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
  • Italian POWs from Royston Camp 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
  • Notes for Assistance of Persons affected by War Damage
  • 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
  • Wardens surprised
  • 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 Hertfordshire Air Raid Damage by District
  • WW2 Hertfordshire Air Raid Number of Casualties
  • WW2 Information Leaflets
  • WW2 Rationing & Recipes
  • Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
  • Home Guard
  • VJ Day - 75th Anniversary in 2020
  • Air Raid Precautions
  • Battle of Britain Exhibition
  • VE Day
  • Evacuees
  • Wartime letters
  • Women's Land Army
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