Crowds flock to city's 'biggest VE Day celebrations' at St Mary's Church May Fayre event

Crowds flocked to the city’s ‘biggest VE Day celebrations’ as the annual May Fayre at St Mary’s Church was turned into a double celebration.

Thousands flocked to the church in Fratton yesterday (Monday, May 5) for the popular event which featured fun fair rides, Morris dancing, choir singing, a Real Ale Beer Tent, and pony rides and community activities as well as lots of stalls.

The annual event also doubled up as a VE commemoration, which organisers said were the ‘biggest VE celebrations in the city’, making 80 years since Victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered to the allies bringing an end to to te fighting in Europe.

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