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All That Was Ended, 15th August 1945

25th August 2022 Going Postal 0

In August 1945 my uncle, John Alldridge, wrote this article commemorating the sixth anniversary of the end of World War II for the Manchester Evening News. He ended with the implication that the memory was [more…]

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