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VE Day party celebration in Leigh

A party celebrating Victory in Europe Day on Hurst Street                                                                               Picture: Wigan and Leigh Archives and Local Studies
A party celebrating Victory in Europe Day on Hurst Street Picture: Wigan and Leigh Archives and Local Studies
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FOLLOWING on from last week's Forces' Welcome Home party, here is another Second World War-themed photograph from VE Day celebrations.

This picture, which we found in the local archives, shows a party celebrating Victory in Europe Day, in Leigh.

The photograph of the party was taken on Hurst Street, in Bedford, in 1945.

Can you help provide more information on who is in the picture, if there are any faces you recognise?

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- Do you have an old photographs you would like to share with us that you think would fit well on this page?

If you do, please email it with your name, what the image shows and what year it was taken.

We will consider using pictures taken in Leigh, Atherton, Astley, Tyldesley, Golborne, Lowton, Hindley, Hindley Green, Glazebury and surrounding areas from a different era.

It can be of anything related to local history or heritage.

- To view pictures from the Wigan and Leigh Archives and Local Studies collection which features photographs visit archives.wigan.gov.uk.

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