Highbury New Park Day Centre user Joan Napolitano joined in with members from Outreech Productions who put on a show at the centre marking the 60th anniversary of VJ day (15 August 2005).<br><br>Londoner Joan who was evacuated to Cornwall and then to Birmingham during the war, said: ‘I don’t remember VJ day that well. It was very low-key for us but I do remember when they dropped the bomb in Hiroshima. It would have been on the newsreels at the cinema and I can clearly remember seeing the explosion. <br><br>‘Alright it finished the war but it was a horrible thing to do, Hiroshima was a small place like Birmingham. But you don’t think like that at the time. I was evacuated to Cornwall to have my daughter and then when I fell pregnant the second time I moved to Birmingham which was a bit of a culture shock I can tell you after the green fields of Cornwall.’<br><br>Outreech Productions in association with Escape Route Theatre presented the drama and popular songs from the 1940s and earlier to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII. <br><br>Ends
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