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Ottringham Victory Day June 8th 1946
Another chance to celebrate victory a year on, this time allowing for a more organised event, and the odd hint of complaint about rationing.
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Overview
Celebrations are held in the small East Riding village of Ottringham – and not just in London – for the British Empire and Allied victory a year after the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan. Although VJ day was 15th of August 1945, having the victory parade the following June allowed soldiers who had subsequently returned to participate. The whole village has turned out, with a wonderful children’s fancy dress parade and women’s egg and spoon race.
This is one of a small collection of films made by William Vaughan who ran a business supplying loudspeakers for outside events in the Holderness area of the East Riding just after the end of the war. As well as Preston, he filmed events, such as agricultural shows and village fairs, in Welwick, Hedon, Thorngumbald, Ottringham and Ryehill, including celebrations of the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. He would then publicly show the films in the villages. Around that time he also filmed sports days at St Philomena’s Convent School for Girls in Rise Hall, in East Yorkshire, where his daughter, Maureen, was a pupil (now owned by property guru and TV personality, Sara Beeny).
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