* What is believed to be the unveiling of the town's Second World War
memorial in the 1940s.
Next Friday, May 8th, as the country does its
best amidst the lockdown to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day,
which marked the end of the Second World War in Europe, the Town Council will
be marking the occasion in style by staging its own Llangollen Stay at Home
Party/Parti Aros Gartref Dydd BE Llangollen.
This is a specially made half-hour film to be streamed
live on Facebook with which people can join in without leaving their homes.
One of its key features will be a moving ceremony at the
town’s World War Two memorial in Centenary Square performed by members of the
local branch of the Royal British Legion.
The group in charge of the party recently put out a call
for pictures of the wartime period and as a result received some great historical
gems, including this one from the collection of former town mayor and town
councillor Robert Lube.
It shows a ceremony at the former location of the two
memorials off Castle Street before they were transferred to the new Centenary
Square.
It is believed to depict the official unveiling of the
World War Two memorial, which now bears the names of the 32 local fallen, from
beneath a Union Flag in the years which followed peace being declared.
* Llangollen Town Council’s Stay at Home VE Day Party/Parti
Aros Gartref Dydd BE Llangollen, is to be streamed live on the Llangollen &
District Noticeboard Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/220715008050894/ at
3pm on Friday, May 8th, and also a little later on the new Stay at
Home VE Day Party/Parti Aros Gartref Dydd BE Llangollen page https://www.facebook.com/Parti-Aros-Gartref-Dydd-B-E-Llangollen-V-E-Day-Stay-at-Home-Party-103158784706199/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
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