VE Day Recollections of Doreen Doe (nee Hodgson):
“I spent 4 and 1/2 years between 1939 and 1944 in Oxfordshire as an evacuee from the East End of London. When I was 14 years old, I returned to London to find work.
I remember when it was announced that the war was over, the celebrations went on for weeks. Every street in the East End of London had a big bonfire and we walked miles dancing and singing at every one. The East End was one big party for weeks on end. Men played accordions in the street and if families had a piano they were brought out onto the street. What a celebration it was: everyone laughing and crying at the same time. There will never be anything like it again.
I am 94 now but I remember those days as is they were yesterday. It should never be forgotten.
I am enclosing an article which appeared in the Magazine in 1989 in the village to which I was evacuated. I hope it would be of interest.”
Typed by her neighbour Ian Willett at hopu52@aol.com
