Southampton's answer to Vera Lynn, Brenda Logie has died
SHE was Southampton's answer to Vera Lynn. Brenda Pritchett, who used her maiden name of Brenda Logie on stage, was well-known and much-loved as the city's wartime singing sweetheart. Her most memorable evening on the stage came in May 1945 when she was interrupted mid concert by an officer's announcement that the Nazis had surrendered and war in Europe was over. It became a mass celebratory sing-along that went on long into the night. Brenda, who passed away in Southampton on January 5, was a teenage convent school girl at St Anne's when she first entertained the troops as part of th...
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