VE Day Newspaper

[davidedric]

Not sure where this should belong, but I thought I'd post it here.

With VE day around the corner, this is the front page of a newspaper, The Manchester Evening News, it's their Victory Special. My mother bought it on the day, in the town of Oldham near Manchester, in the UK (I do have the whole newspaper, though it is quite fragile). The content is an odd mixture of the global and the local.

 

[Joeseph]

very cool bit of history! I've squirreled away a couple of newspapers for posterity but nothing as important.

 

[Dicky109]

I can only imagine the joy that headline brought to the world an your mother! Good for you to keep it all these years.

 

[davidedric]

My dad was in India at the time (they weren't yet married), striving for VJ day

 

[Perfectly Frank]

Fascinating item, especially since it has been in your family all these years.

No beer for the Germans. Boy, that must have been a harsh punishment!