{"id":28789,"date":"2025-04-17T23:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T23:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/28789\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T23:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T23:46:14","slug":"full-list-of-ve-day-street-parties-and-road-closures-in-oldham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/28789\/","title":{"rendered":"Full list of VE Day street parties and road closures in Oldham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only three street parties are taking place across the borough – but there are other events to mark the occasion.\"OldhamOldham will be celebrating VE Day with a whole week of events.(Image: Hull Daily Mail \/ Hull Live)<\/p>\n

Oldham will be celebrating VE Day with a whole week of events and activities across the borough.<\/p>\n

VE [Victory in Europe] Day falls on Thursday, May 8 and marks the 80th anniversary since the end of World War II.<\/p>\n

The celebrations include veterans\u2019 parties, performances and a small number of street parties. Only three roads applied for temporary closures to host local street parties.<\/p>\n

The celebrations will kick off the weekend before the anniversary, with a parade and brass band visiting Royton Cricket Club at 12 noon on Saturday, May 3.<\/p>\n

\"AA vintage singer will be visiting Tommyfield Market on VE Day(Image: Mirrorpix)<\/p>\n

On Sunday, May 4, Royton\u2019s military veterans will host a knees-up at local pub Rumours from 1PM. The event will include a singer \u2018belting out songs from the 40s\u2019, tea, coffee and soft drinks and an option to dress-up in 40s-themed garb.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Oldham<\/a> Council will be decorating Tommyfield Market and Yorkshire Street with bunting and hanging a commemorative card in the Spindles, outside the Next branch, where people can write meaningful messages. This will be on display from Saturday 3rd May to VE Day on Thursday 8th May.<\/p>\n

The council is also putting on a show at Tommyfield Market on VE day itself, with a visit from vintage-style singer Abbi-Kaye (Viva la Vintage) at 10am, 12pm and 2pm on Thursday, May 8. The Barnsley-born professional events singer specialises in jazz, swing, soul and rock & roll covers.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Civic Centre will be lit up one last time for VE Day.(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

The Civic Tower will be lit up to mark VE Day – the last ever time OMBC plans to light up the structure. The town hall is due to move to the Old Library later this year, which will become the new building to light up during special occasions.<\/p>\n

The following weekend, Shaw will be closing down Market Street<\/a> on Sunday, May 11 from 12pm until 4pm to host a family friendly \u2018tea dance\u2019. The festivities will include a 1940\u2019s fancy dress competition, a Ukulele band and a military vehicles parade. Favourite local chippy Armstrong’s Home of the Jumbo Cod will also be serving food.<\/p>\n

Two other Cul-de-sacs have applied for street closures. Oldham Council would not reveal which roads they are, as the celebrations are for residents only.<\/p>\n

\"Armstrong'sArmstrong’s fish & chips on Market Street in Shaw(Image: Google Earth)<\/p>\n

People have been urged to celebrate the 80th anniversary with street parties as four days of concerts, services and processions<\/a> were announced.<\/p>\n

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said this year\u2019s anniversary offers \u201cimportant opportunities for communities to come together\u201d, which will kick off with a military procession in central London from Whitehall to Buckingham Palace on the May 5 bank holiday.<\/p>\n

And Brendan Cox, co-founder of the Together Coalition, said that this year\u2019s events offer \u201ca great opportunity to celebrate what we have in common, and to use the celebrations to reach out to neighbours, friends and our wider communities”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only three street parties are taking place across the borough – but there are other events to mark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,1286,14984,17296,17297,16,15,9032],"class_list":{"0":"post-28789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-oldham","13":"tag-oldham-council","14":"tag-royton","15":"tag-shaw","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-world-war-two"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114355973915090786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}