Ve Party Derley Rd

A Memory of Southall.

This was a year that the war finished, my sister and I had not long returned home from Nottingham having been evacuated to avoid the V 2"s. I remember that tables had been set up in the middle of the street and food appeared from everywhere not sure where it came, from but it was more food than we had ever seen. There was a piano playing and everybody was dancing, I remember there was a row and nearly a fight as somebody had put the front of the piano on the bonfire that had been lit in the street, to add to the general merryment. We kids all enjoyed ourselves by generally making as much trouble as we could. Not sure when it all finished but I do know it was dark.