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To this day I can remember VE Day. It must have been late in the evening when it was announced. Me and my elder sister Kath walked into Leeds, about a twenty minute walk. Everyone was going mad, singing and dancing. We were walking behind a man playing an accordian.

It was a great sight. All the night workers at the big postal offices were hanging out of the windows, shouting and screaming. It is something I will never forget. We all had a holiday the next day from work, so it must have been about 4 o'clock in the morning when my sister and I got home.

My twin sister Agnes didn't get a day off so had to be at work early in the bakery where she worked.

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