And although it was early days with tensions in Japan still ongoing, when VE Day dawned people couldn’t wait to get together and enjoy the first taste of freedom for six long years.
Across the Fylde coast, families came together to organise street parties. Long tables adorned with cloths with borrowed dining chairs lined either side seated children, parents and grandparents for a day to remember.
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VE Day at a Blackpool cafe, the waitresses are wearing Union Jack aprons and hair bows | jpimedia
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Table cloths, benches and dining chairs with food for everyone in this typical street party scene. | jpimedia
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VE Day in St Annes - street party for residents of Trafalgar Street, Alexandra Road and Holmefield Road | jpimedia
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Crowds on Blackpool promenade outside the Woolworth building celebrate the end of the war in Europe | jpimedia
