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• BRITAIN HEARS NEWS OF END OF JAP WAR: CELEBRATING VICTORY IN JAPAN, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, c 15 AUGUST 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  In London's Piccadilly Circus,a group of servicemen and women, and a civilian woman, link arms as they walk towards the camera, singing as they dance in celebration around Eros (not pictured), on the news that the war in Japan is over. Behind them,...

• BRITAIN HEARS NEWS OF END OF JAP WAR: CELEBRATING VICTORY IN JAPAN, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, c 15 AUGUST 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Civilians walk amongst the piles of torn up paper which have been thrown, 'ticker tape'-style, from the windows of offices, on Lower Regent Street, London, to celebrate the signing of the Peace with Japan. More paper can be seen fluttering down onto the...

• BRITAIN HEARS NEWS OF END OF JAP WAR: CELEBRATING VICTORY IN JAPAN, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, c 15 AUGUST 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Civilians walk amongst the piles of torn up paper which have been thrown, 'ticker tape'-style, from the windows of offices, on Lower Regent Street, London, to celebrate the signing of the Peace with Japan. A young boy can be seen playing with the piles...

• BRITAIN HEARS NEWS OF END OF JAP WAR: CELEBRATING VICTORY IN JAPAN, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, c 15 AUGUST 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Crowds of people wait for news at the junction of Whitehall with Downing Street. The crowd consists of service personnel and civilians alike, all waiting for confirmation from the Prime Minister that the war in Japan is over. Clearly visible in the...

• BRITAIN HEARS NEWS OF END OF JAP WAR: CELEBRATING VICTORY IN JAPAN, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, c 15 AUGUST 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  A New Zealand sailor raises his bowler hat in the sunshine as he celebrates Victory in Japan with several smiling American soldiers and English civilian women on the Strand in London. One of the GIs has a small spray of flowers pinned to his shirt.

• Private Papers of Miss D M F Byrne

  (private papers) Made by: Byrne, D M F

  Ms journal (39pp) kept by a member of the Women's Land Army January 1944 - December 1945 (with non contemporary alterations and marginalia) recording her farming activities on the Surrey/Sussex border, her daily routine and off duty recreation with good...

• Private Papers of Miss J W West

  (private papers) Made by: West, J W

  Extracts (pp 72-94 only) from an undated ts memoir written by the daughter, aged nineteen in 1939, of a GP in a Nottinghamshire village describing her family's preparations for the outbreak of war (August - September 1939), her continuing employment as...

• Private Papers of Mrs N Williams

  (private papers) Made by: Williams, N

  Lively (14pp) ms description of the emotional reaction of the author to the news of the Japanese surrender, 15 August 1945, the announcement by Attlee and broadcasts by the King; good descriptions of celebrations in the mess and in central London during...

• Private Papers of Miss N V Carver

  (private papers) Made by: Carver, N V

  Ms journal (167pp) kept by a supervisor at the Central Telegraph Office in London, 23 August 1939 - 31 December 1945, containing useful references to the outbreak of war, ARP measures, civilian conditions, D Day, VE Day, the 1945 General Election and VJ...

• Private Papers of F W Bower

  (private papers) Made by: Bower, F W

  Wp account (60pp, written in the 1990s) of his wartime experiences, 1940 - 1948, covering his evacuation as a schoolboy with his sister from their home in Liverpool to Napanee, Ontario, Canada (July 1940 - August 1944), including details of their journey...