Sent by:Moira McGechie
Sent to:George McGechie
Sent from:Glasgow
Date of letter:8 May 1945
"Well, this is it, dearest, and yet I somehow don’t feel just so excited as I did last night. We haven’t done anything very special today."
Letters were discovered among my mum’s belongings after her passing.
My dad was in the Royal Navy and was stationed in Lyness Orkney throughout the Second World War.
She wrote the letters to him. The first written on the day before VE Day 7 May 1945, this one, the second on VE Day which gives descriptions of Glasgow at the time, and a third written the next day 9 May.
Transcript:
'VE Day'
My own very darling husband,
Well, this is it, dearest, & yet I somehow don’t feel just so excited as I did last night.
We haven’t done anything very special today really. Mother woke me about 10 a.m. & I went down for breakfast in my dressing gown, after which I got washed & dressed. Then I did the supper & breakfast dishes & some odd jobs, after which I sat and crotcheted & listened to the wireless, till it was time to set the table for dinner. After dinner I did the dishes again, & then crotcheted some more, & we listened to Churchill's speech at 3pm. We had tea faily early, & then I dressed myself in my red dress & teddy bear jacket, & about 7pm mother & I went out as we'd decided to go to town to see what it was like. When we got out we heard our church bells, & noticed folk going to church. I specially wanted to go to the VE day service, but we though it was to be....
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