On 8th June 1946, nearly ten months after the official end of World War 2, the country held a Victory Celebration centred on London. Apart from a tour of central London by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and their two daughters, there was a long parade of both military vehicles and soldiers, sailors and airmen including representatives of Allied forces, Empire and Colonial countries. The solitary omission were Polish forces because of political problems which had arisen with the Soviet Russian takeover of Poland.

In common with many other towns, Bromley had its own parades, entertainments and church services. The programme of these events was in a twelve page booklet, reproduced below, a copy of which has been kindly sent to us by Gillian Risso-Gill who found it among the effects of the late Dorothy Drouin nee Chesney. She lived at Robert Whyte House in Bickley until her death in2004 at the age of 101 having previously run a hairdressing salon in London Road during the 1920/30s.