Editorial for May .....

Well this month we have the 80th Anniversary of V.E.Day in 1945. Victory in Europe.  Most of you reading this will think of it as history but I am one of the people in their nineties who can remember it. I was 15 at the time and doing my School Certificate Exams at Braintree High School. This was the end of the war in Europe but we had to wait until August for the war to end In the Far East.  The bells rang out and everyone was happy and relieved although many lives had been lost along the way,

I was  wondering why I can’t remember much about it but we didn’t have television in our homes.  News came on the radio or in the newspapers or on the newsreel at the cinema.

Things didn’t change overnight,  we still had shortages and food was rationed in some form or another until 1953.  Clothes were also rationed and  there was a housing shortage.

As you will see inside the church bell will be rung on the 8th at 6.30pm and there will be a short service in All Saints Church to commemorate the day.

We have the usual things this month.  The Events Committee lunch will be a Ploughmans on 23rd .  Also, on Saturday 10th our local artists have an Exhibition at St. Barnabas 11.00am-4.00pm—admission is free.

With Summer on the way watch your tender bedding plants,  we can still have frost up to the end of the month.

Hopefully we shall be able to include our usual Crossword this month!!

Betty