PICTURE THE MOMENT

We arrived in Parliament Square about 2.15pm on VE Day. The place was overflowing with people – civilians and members of the Armed Forces: British, American, French, Poles, Norwegians, Belgians.

We stood facing Big Ben. As the chimes began to ring before the stroke of the three we snapped a picture.

The crowd almost went wild with cheers. The bugle call “cease fire” was sounded, then the Speaker of the House of Commons

CELEBRATION Scenes at Parliament Square on May 8, 1945. Left, Thomas Byrnes Barry.

introduced Mr Churchill, who gave a very fine talk, sprinkled with cheering from the crowd.

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