I was away on holiday at the 80th celebrations of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, so I am a bit late to the party with this post. Just before VE Day, the manageress of the foodbank charity shop where I volunteer, wanted to dress the shop window with Union Jack flags, books about the Second World War and CDs of war time songs - as she put it, to celebrate peace, not glorify war. She asked us volunteers to provide photos of family who had served in the Second World War. My mother was a Land Girl so I provided the photo below of my mother (in the very centre) talking to the Duchess of Gloucester who had arrived with her entourage to watch the Land Girls at work, harvesting potatoes and doing their bit for King and Country.
My mum would have been so chuffed to know her photo was on display in the local High Street.
2 comments:
What a very special photo of your mother.
In that moment - when the photo was taken - how could your mother have imagined for one moment that the picture would sit in a charity shop window eighty years later? I hope she was saying to The Duchess of Gloucester, "Are you too posh to pick potatoes love?"
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