Throughout the early months of 1945, the planning for peace went on. 

The men of the now disbanded Home Guard put on a New Year Party at the Church hall, and what a party. 

It lasted six hours.  Musical games and ‘frolics for the children and N.C.O.s’ were followed by Mysteries from the East and West by Sing Hi and Ali Cassim Baba. All this and games, puzzles and competitions for all children between 4 and 82.  

There were weddings of course, too many to mention, men being welcomed home on disembarkation leave, arguments about supplies for the fish and chip shop in Hill Road, and all the day to day happenings,

• The people of Worle counted up their wartime savings, all £69,759.10s.6d of it. 
• The guides put on a concert for 250 guests to raise money for the Red Cross Prisoners of War Fund. 
• Oak Cottage, [the thatched one in Ebdon Road, now divided into Magnolia Cottage and Oak Lea Cottage] was sold for £4,650 at an auction in the Royal Hotel.
• There was talk of the Girls’ club moving to the Senior School hall.
• Mr Griffin retired from the cycle shop, which was taken over by Reg Weadon.

 Families were still beset with news of missing loved ones, like Sgt. Charles Henry Bartlett of the RAF. 

 Germany surrendered and it was over. 

The celebrations in Greenwood Road went on all night. Mr. Percy Bennett put loud speakers up on a pole for dancing.  The leather from the soles of the dancers’ shoes coloured the road brown by the next morning.

 The people in the Radio shop, which was next to Porter’s green grocery and fish store, put up an amplifier in the Church Hall for Old Time Dancing.