'I REMEMBER the lights going on. I had never seen anything like it in my life. It was amazing,' says Hetty Bourne.
This was the scene that greeted the 14-year-old Hetty when her mother took her to Leicester Square to enjoy VE Day 75 years ago. After hiding in the darkness during bombing raids in London, seeing spotlights around a makeshift stage where screen siren Margaret Lockwood sang during the celebrations has always stayed with Hetty. Hetty, now 89, says:"I can remember my mother saying, 'We have to go and celebrate, we are liberated', so she took me to Leicester Square.
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