- Identifier
- 101-0012-032
- Title
- Interview with Phoebe Gibbins (nee Saunders)
- Description
- World War 2 interview
- Type
- Item
- Format
- 1 Minidisc
- Date
- 09 Feb 2005
- Contributor
- BHAC
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Copyright situation unknown/other, contact HCE
- Publisher
- Contact HCE if you would like to use or reproduce this item
- Relation
- 105-0012-026
- Subject
- Was 10 years when war started; never evacuated; father had shop; rationing - ordering at city hall; grandmother part of ARP; sleeping in air raid shelters; bombings were horrible and people killed in Norwegian home; brother killed in forces; school life as normal; war effort like collecting newspapers; drills in school; gas masks; older girls dances with GIs; cinema; sleeping at other girls shelters; bombing, sirens, blackout was terrifying, still scared of thunder etc; lot of seamen killed, torpedoed, all nationalities; VE day; never the same after the war; war made Butetown much closer community
