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Darwen Heritage Centre reopens with memorial photo on display

Darwen Heritage Centre reopens with memorial photo on display
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Search is on to find relatives of Lower Darwen 'liberator'


IT’S just over 75 years since the Second World War ended. But folk living in the occupied countries who struggled through the horrors of those days still remember the debt of gratitude they owed to the Allied forces who liberated them.
Marleen Jennissen wasn’t born till 1954 but she learned all about the relentless oppression families such as hers had to endure for five long years.
After the war her father Joep tried to arrange the excavation of an RAF Short Stirling bomber which had crashed on the night of September 10, 1942, in marshland close to Lilbosh Abbey, a community of monks in the southern part of the Netherlands. Joep lived in the area. ....

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