Events to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day
May 8 @ 14:45 - 21:00
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Thursday 8th May – events to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day:
Songs and Scones at Frome Memorial Theatre2.45 pm: Gather Frome Memorial Theatre
3pm: Churchill’s 1945 VE Day speech followed by wreath laying and ending with King George VI speech to the nation
3.15pm: 1940s themed Songs and Scones in the Memorial Garden or Assembly Rooms, weather dependent. 1940s style dress optional but encouraged!
Service, bells and lighting of beacons5pm: Gather at Frome Memorial for informal parade to St Johns Church, reenacting the parade of 8th May 1945
5.30pm: Thanksgiving Service using the Victory Order of Service from 8th May 1945
6.30pm: Church bells of St Johns Church and the nation to ring out
9.30pm: National Beacon Lighting from 9.30pm
August 2025:VJ Events in August and Frome Festival of Remembrance in November to be announced
For further information, contact Jane Norris jane.norris9@gmail.com and Philip Macey philip.macey01@gmail.com.
