'What a helluva party it had been!': Durham man's memories of VE Day

'What a helluva party it had been!': Durham man's memories of VE Day

James Gilman moved to Newton Hall in Durham in 1974 when he became head of library and resources at Washington School and subsequently spent eight years as head of curriculum development in Durham County Council’s education department. Before that, his long and varied career had seen him working, largely in teaching posts, in Nigeria, Carlisle and Tasmania and, before that, he’d grown up in north London where, with his father away in the service…