VE Day Beacon Lighting Event

VE Day Beacon Lighting event on Salisbury Field in Dorchester starting at 8.15pm with 1940s music from the Decadettes and reading of local memories of that special day in 1945 performed by the As One Theatre Company. Just before 9.30pm, Dorchester’s Town Crier, Anthony Harrison, will read the VE Day Tribute at the same time as the Tribute is read out in communities across the United Kingdom. Then young local bugler, Joe Ansell, performs the Last Post just as the town’s Beacon is lit.