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On VE Day the Queen Mary (which was a troop ship during the war) was in the docks in Southampton and the celebrations including the sirens being sounded. We could hear them in Eastleigh. My uncle was disabled and drove a taxi in Southampton and he came and collected us in the middle of the night and we all went to Southampton where everyone had bonfires. We saw a car being burnt in the area in front of the Bargate, as everyone was so happy. It was so light compared to the ‘black out‘ where there were no lights at all, not even in the windows or street lights.

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