Memories of the celebrations held in Chesterfield to mark VE Day in 1945 are rekindled with this picture.
It has been sent in by Mrs Janet Edwards (nee Roebuck), from New Road, Wingerworth.
Taken outside a hall on School Board Lane at Brampton it is of mothers and children from Brookbank Avenue at Brockwell with the then mayor.
Mrs Edwards tell us that she is seated third from the left on the second row and they had sandwiches, buns and jelly and played games.
"Some of the children I with as a child were Marjorie Britchfield, Brian Bradshaw, June Stevenson, Winifred Linley, Irene Lewin, Beryl Thompson, Leslie Brown, Gillian Bamford, Joyce Beresford, Kenneth Wilson and Sheila Topliss," says Mrs Edwards.
"Perhaps some of my old friends will recognise themselves."
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