Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Lest We Forget – 70th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1945

On 8 May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany’s surrender and VE Day (Victory in Europe) celebrating the end of the Second World War, was declared on that day.  Even though the war was officially at an end, in the Far East it raged on until the 15 August 1945 when Japan surrendered to the Allies. This is known as  V-J Day (Victory in Japan.) Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on 15 August 1945, Japan formally surrendered on 2 September 1945, thus ending World War II throughout the rest of the world.

On 1 September 1945 the County Press gave an account of how the Gobles Nursery in Ryde was celebrating peace with a dahlia display, at the same time as fundraising for the prisoners of war in the Far East.

For Prisoners of War.- On Thursday and yesterday (Friday) Ald. E. C. GOBLE opened his floral gardens and nursery to the public, and many, among them visitors, took advantage of the occasion to admire the contents of the greenhouses and an especially fine show of dahlias. Outstanding among the latter was the brilliant scarlet of Stalingrad (Russia), growing in the same border with the orange-red Queen of the Belgians,

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Dahlia Thomas Edison

Dahlia Thomas Edison

A fine crop of cucumbers, averaging 2 ft. long, grown especially for seed for London wholesalers, was also of great  interest.

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Each day collections were taken by Mrs. N. Way and Mrs. Shiner in aid of the local prisoners of war in the Far East.

 

 

 

Sources: Isle of Wight County Press 1 September 1945
Images: orange red dahlia  www.patsysmiles.com; Thomas Edison dahlia & cucumbers from Wikipedia.