Under the heading Peace Week Brevities, the Luton News of November 14th, 1918, listed the following:

• Several people were scorched by the heavier type of fireworks which were thrown indiscriminately among the crowds on Monday and Tuesday afternoon. Fireworks throwing and one of two cases of intoxication were the only unwise methods of celebration.

• A party of soldiers from Biscot were frustrated just in time as they were possessing themselves of the Luton News motor-van.

• The ex-Mayor (Councillor C. Dillingham) celebrated the occasion with a velour bowler.

• Many public engagements, including the Luton Borough Tribunal fixed for last night, were cancelled.

• A girl challenged all comers of the opposite sex to out-dance her on Tuesday night outside the Luton News office, and three in succession who challenged her were defeated.

• Mimes, morris dancers and guisers (people in fancy dress) by the dozen paraded the streets on Monday and Tuesday night.

• The Discharged Sailors' and Soldiers' Association organised a torchlight procession and paraded the town on Tuesday night.

• Parties of young men and maidens held impromptu dances at intervals from Park Square to Mill Street.

• Mr Willet Ball, the prospective Labour candidate for Luton, was unable to attend the service at the Old Parish Church on Tuesday owing to indisposition and arrears of work, which he has had to struggle through in a sick room.

• There was a big crush in the porch of the Old Parish Church at Tuesday's thanksgiving service, and several women were slightly shaken.

• At Messrs George Kent's the joy of the employees was such that they scattered their dinners.