{"id":713,"date":"2025-04-15T18:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/?p=713"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:55:11","slug":"ve-day-80th-anniversary-in-words-images-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/15\/ve-day-80th-anniversary-in-words-images-and-music\/","title":{"rendered":"VE Day 80th Anniversary in Words, Images and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
An event hosted by Project Purley and other local organisations and individuals.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Monday 5th<\/sup> May<\/div>\n
2:00 – 4.30 pm \u2013 doors open 1.45 pm<\/div>\n
The Barn, Goosecroft, Purley on Thames, RG8 8DR<\/div>\n
Tickets \u00a35 per person from Marjorie Butler on 0118 941 8856 or at a Project Purley meeting<\/div>\n
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Pre-booking required<\/p>\n

Doors open at 1.45 pm and our event begins at 2:00 pm.\u00a0 Discover Purley during the Second World War.\u00a0 Find out where Spitfire parts were made in the village, how we welcomed children, families and businesses evacuated from London, how Purley Park River Estate expanded into a village within a village and read about the eventful bops in their community hall.\u00a0 Discover the stories of those who served in the armed forces and on the home front and our connections to the \u201cGreat Escape\u201d and the infamous Thai-Burma Railway.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019ll find a former resident of your home served in the war?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There will be an exhibition, Pathe Film news clips, music, images and a talk in two halves, by historian Mike Cooper on \u201cThe Collapse of Germany in 1945\u201d.<\/p>\n

The ticket price also includes tea\/coffee and cake.<\/p>\n

The afternoon will end about 4.30 pm. Pre-booking is required as numbers are limited.<\/p>\n

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An event hosted by Project Purley and other local organisations and individuals. Monday 5th May 2:00 – 4.30 pm \u2013 doors open 1.45 pm The Barn, Goosecroft, Purley on Thames, RG8 8DR Tickets \u00a35 per person from Marjorie Butler on 0118 941 8856 or at a Project Purley meeting Pre-booking required Doors open at 1.45 … Continue reading “VE Day 80th Anniversary in Words, Images and Music”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13],"tags":[28,31],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previous-events-and-outings","category-talk","tag-mike-cooper","tag-ve-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}