HIGH Town, Hereford, was an amazing sight on VE Day.

Huge crowds of people, many in military uniforms or sporting red-white-and-blue rosettes, gathered to celebrate the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and the end of the war in Europe.

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There was singing, dancing and more than a few toasts drunk to Winston Churchill and Britain's magnificent Armed Forces.

Later a civic parade was held to mark the great victory.

  • Pictures by Tony Williams, courtesy of Dr M Beachamp, the Derek Foxton Archive

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