Ernie Boyden remembers songs and celebrations in Piccadilly Circus

Ernie Boyden
I happened to be in Piccadilly Circus on VE night. It was chaos! People were charging around triumphantly. It was a joyous occasion after all that horror. We were released from Hitler and his mob. 

There were thousands in Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, everywhere. Someone was singing on the balcony of the Criterion – she sang I’m going to get lit up when the lights go on in London. I remember seeing Lily Fryer - a young woman I knew who was in the Land Army – on the front page of Picture Post, dancing along in her uniform.

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