Name/TitlePhoto: Kirkcaldy Street Party
About this objectBlack and white photograph featuring a large group of women, many wearing aprons or pinnies, standing around children seated at a long trestle table decorated with vases of flowers and laden with plates of buns and other food. The occasion is an end-of war celebration in 1945, possibly either V-E Day on 8th May or V-J Day on 15th August. The donor's grandmother is pictured on the right.
Date Made1945
PeriodSecond World War
Place MadeScotland, Kirkcaldy
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
Inscription and MarksOn back, in pencil and blue pen: "Lawson St, Kirkcaldy ~ Street Party ~ Celebration [sic] the end of the War 1945"
MeasurementsH: 86 x W: 131 mm
Subject and Association Keywordswar & conflict
Subject and Association KeywordsSecond World War
Subject and Association KeywordsCommunity spirit
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day:
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945. Russia and some former Soviet countries celebrate on 9 May, marking the end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front. Several countries observe public holidays on the day each year, also called Victory Over Fascism Day, Liberation Day or Victory Day. In the UK it is often abbreviated to VE Day, or V-E Day in the US, a term which existed as early as September 1944, in anticipation of victory ... Upon the defeat of Germany, celebrations erupted throughout the Western world, especially in the United Kingdom and in North America. More than one million people celebrated in the streets throughout the UK to mark the end of the European part of the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day:
Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – 15 August 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, 14 August 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to 2 September 1945, when the surrender document was signed, officially ending World War II. 15 August is the official V-J Day for the United Kingdom, while the official US commemoration is 2 September. The name, V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePhotograph
Object numberGWL-2022-118-2
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved