This week in...

1945

“Surrender ratified in Berlin To-day” read the Citizen’s front page headline (May 8, 1945) bringing to an end the Second World War in Europe.

1955

Thousands braved the rain to welcome the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to Gloucester on the 800th anniversary of the city’s Royal Charter granted by Henry 11.

1960

The Opera House in Cheltenham’s Regent Street was renamed the Everyman Theatre.