Hello everyone!
Here& #39;s a thread of the best photos from our gallery capturing V.E. Day in Swindon.

First up, Swindon children tucking in under bunting at Langford Grove in Old Walcot:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/4693287618/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sw... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/VEDay75"> #VEDay75 #VEDay
@SwindonCouncil @SwindonLibrary

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Another gem here:

This is Havelock Street in the town centre

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/7170598624/

Some">https://www.flickr.com/photos/sw... surnames of people in the photo: Razey, Woodman, Brooks, Boyce, Wyatt, Luker, Shurmer, Foster, Chivers, Richman, Lainchbury, Styles, Romans, Wilde, Hall, Crube.

#VEDay75 #VEDay
A #VEDay mystery now:

Where was this taken? This stumped even expert Andy Binks who shared this with us from the collection of Dave Neal (whose dad Norman is stood to the left of the accordion player):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/4504832305/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sw... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/VEDay75"> #VEDay75
Next a wonderful view of Swindonians dancing on #VEDay in Farnsby Street - once a fully residential street, (unlike today!):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/5445171325/

Click">https://www.flickr.com/photos/sw... on the link to read a wonderful detailed comment by someone who was born in 1942 and lived at no.25!

#VEDay75 #VEDay
We love this properly posed group photograph taken in Regent Place (between the @WyvernTheatre and the back of the Savoy).
Presiding is Swindon Mayor Charles Macpherson - grandfather of Angus Macpherson ( @PCCWiltsSwindon )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/4843601280/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sw... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/VEDay75"> #VEDay75 #VEDay
We know Hooper& #39;s descendants, including local author & historian Paul Williams. His collection of Hooper photographs is LEGENDARY and has to be seen to be believed!
Luckily for you, he generously shared over 1000 scans with us, which you can see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/albums/72157622112864411">https://www.flickr.com/photos/sw...
Of course we are saving the best until last.

These final two are wonderful!

First up is this fab photo of #VEDay celebrations in Catherine Street, Swindon:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/4681948971/

So">https://www.flickr.com/photos/sw... much detail! Note the dismantled Anderson table shelters in the front gardens!

#VEDay75
And last but not least our favourite! #VEDay in/near Farnsby Street. See the (now-demolished) Central Club on Milton Rd looming above? Water Tank 257 at the end?
This is later in the day: a band& #39;s playing (on the right) and the dancing begins!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/4682580868/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sw... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/VEDay75"> #VEDay75
Thanks for reading!

You can search through 6800+ of our pics here: http://www.flickr.com/swindonlocal ">https://www.flickr.com/swindonlo... (a fraction of what we hold in our cabinets at Central Library).

Email us your local history or family history enquiries: localstudies@swindon.gov.uk

Thanks,
The Local Studies Team
p.s.- For more on local VE Day celebrations, go to this link ( http://www.balh.org.uk/publication-tlh-the-local-historian-volume-41-number-1-february-2011#)">https://www.balh.org.uk/publicati... and download (for free) the Feb 2011 edition of The Local Historian (by @BALHNews).

It includes an excellent article by Chris Sladen on Swindon& #39;s 1945 #VEDay & #VJDay celebrations (pp.28-41)
And for more on the ww2 home front in Swindon/Wilts we recommend this by @LibLocalStudies (Wiltshire& #39;s Local Studies Librarian at @HeritageWSHC):

https://swindon.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=125530

"From">https://swindon.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/s... blackout to bungalows: WWII home front Wiltshire & the austerity years 1939-1955" (Hobnob, 2016)
And for more on the human cost of ww2 for Swindonians, there is this essential book by one of our own team:

https://swindon.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=165090

"Roll">https://swindon.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/s... of Honour 1939-1945: Swindon & District"
by Katherine Cole (Local Studies, Swindon Libraries)
(Hobnob, 2017)
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