VE Day celebrations at a street party in the lane behind Palmer Gardens. Some of the people in the photograph are Alice & Maggie Boyd, Doreen Frecker, Mrs. Lisgo, Barbara Goldsworthy, Rya Gage, & Sadie Cooper. The figure of Mrs. Laing can be seen in the upstairs window of her house. Her son Joe re-inforced the air raid shelter using small triangular bricks from the disused reservoir  behind Palmers hall. Thankfully, only one bomb ever fell on Wardley in WW2. It landed in a field  in front of West Crescent near the railway line. No one was hurt but there were a few people who dived under the table that day.