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Description: | 1945.
This is one of many street parties held to celebrate VE and VJ days. Communities pooled their resources to organise these celebrations, with particular attention to the needs of the children. Tables were set up in the streets (traffic would not have been a problem then), chairs brought out for the young. Most of the decorations hats and bunting would have been home made. On the tables here are a trifle and plates of buns and cake, made with carefully hoarded rations. Ingredients for baking such as sugar and dried fruit became luxury items during the war, most children would have been delighted by the selection on offer! After tea, the parties continued with races and games, the adults enjoying themselves later when the youngest children were in bed. Music was provided by records played on wind-up gramophones or a piano brought out into the street. Celebration drinks were consumed, in many streets a bonfire would be lit giving great pleasure after the unlit streets of the blackout. This is thought to be Beaufort Place off Roundhay Road. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Victory Celebration Street Party Beaufort Place | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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