I'm a reporter for ITV News Central, based in Birmingham. Despite the current lockdown, we're working on some plans for our coverage of the week leading up to the 75th anniversary of VE Day on Friday 8th May.
I've been asked to do some research which I wondered if you might be able to help with. I'm looking for a photograph from the celebrations on VE Day itself in 1945 - preferably in Birmingham, but anywhere in the West Midlands would be fine. Now, here's the difficult bit.....we'd like to trace two or three people in the photo and interview them about their memories of that day.
75 years on, the obvious candidates would have been children at the time, and could well have moved away or whatever, so I appreciate that it's a needles-in-a-haystack job - but if it came off I think it would make some riveting TV!
I imagine the likely photo would be some sort of street party, and it would have to show several children close-up enough to be able to recognise them (so not just a crowd photo) but perhaps a family photo would also work, as long as it was taken on or around VE Day 1945.
Would you be so kind as to put some feelers out to your colleagues on the BHF and see what comes back?
It'd be much appreciated, and we still have the rest of this week to pull off a miracle! My email is andy.bevan@itv.com if anyone gets any response.
Many thanks,
Andy Bevan
I've been asked to do some research which I wondered if you might be able to help with. I'm looking for a photograph from the celebrations on VE Day itself in 1945 - preferably in Birmingham, but anywhere in the West Midlands would be fine. Now, here's the difficult bit.....we'd like to trace two or three people in the photo and interview them about their memories of that day.
75 years on, the obvious candidates would have been children at the time, and could well have moved away or whatever, so I appreciate that it's a needles-in-a-haystack job - but if it came off I think it would make some riveting TV!
I imagine the likely photo would be some sort of street party, and it would have to show several children close-up enough to be able to recognise them (so not just a crowd photo) but perhaps a family photo would also work, as long as it was taken on or around VE Day 1945.
Would you be so kind as to put some feelers out to your colleagues on the BHF and see what comes back?
It'd be much appreciated, and we still have the rest of this week to pull off a miracle! My email is andy.bevan@itv.com if anyone gets any response.
Many thanks,
Andy Bevan