63889 total results

Originally deposited as an audio cassette. Contains reminiscences about life at 'Summer Hayes', the Sanderson family, North Ferriby during the Second World War including the Womens Voluntary Service, air raids, emergency plans in the event of enemy invasion, German and Italian prisoners of war who worked at 'Summer Hayes' and evacuees. Duration: 30 min, 7 sec Timing: (00:10) Mrs Sanderson came to North Ferriby in 1922 having been born in 1900. (00:50) For her wedding she wore a Honiton lace veil which may have been worn by brides in William Wilberforce's family. (02:18) Mrs Sanderson called each of the four houses she owned in North Ferriby 'Summer Hayes'. (02:43) They only had gas when she and her husband first moved to North Ferriby. The streets were gas lit. (03:13) A year later, electricity came to the area. (03:28) Mrs Sanderson's wedding was announced in the 'Hull Daily Mail' as between [Geoffrey] Ernest Sanderson and Eva Dorothy Summerhays at St Mary's Church, Oxon. (03: 55) They were married by three clergymen. (04:40) The Sandersons gave seven-course dinner parties and lived in great style. People called, left visiting cards, and she returned their calls. (06:30) Mrs Sanderson remembers the Misses Turner who gave the allotments to North Ferriby. Mrs Sanderson and the Misses Turner liked to speak French to the onion sellers on bicycles who came to this country via Hull Docks. (08:28) At the outbreak of the Second World War, Mr Horace Wright of Tower House held a meeting to organise the Home Guard and air raid wardens. Mrs Sanderson was an air raid warden, a girl guide commissioner, and organised the WRVS in her area. (09:30) Mrs Wright was the head of the first aid post at North Ferriby. (09:48) Air raid wardens met in the old school. There was a course on poison gases with an exam. (10:25) The wardens had lectures on first aid and home nursing. The girl guides acted as patients. (10:57) North Ferriby had rest stations in the Church Hall, the Methodist Church Hall and the British Legion. These had supplies of tea, coffee, sugar and blankets. (12:51) The WRVS went to the Estate Hall to supervise the issue of ration books, identity cards, clothes and food ration books. (13:19) At the start of the war children under 5 were given rose hip syrup and orange juice. (14:25) In the early part of the war they had 'FAGS' which stood for 'Ferriby Anti-Gloom Society'. FAGS held concerts every Saturday evening. Mrs Sanderson sang 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye'. They also had a magician and community singing. (16:28) These concerts stopped once the first air raids started and the shelters were opened. (17:31) North Ferriby Church Hall was used as a shelter by people from Hull. People came in all through the night. (20:05) Air raid wardens patrolled in twos and her partner was Colonel Howlett, a retired army officer. (22:36) Mr Sanderson was in charge of the special constables. Mrs Sanderson remembers Mr Jackson and Mr [Hare] were special constables. (23:18) The Home Guard were initially issued with broom handles to parade with, and only got their rifles later. (23:42) There was an empty train in the sidings at North Ferriby Station, in case of a German invasion, so that the people of the village could go inland quickly. (25:29) Parts of a Mulberry Harbour which was eventually used for D-Day was stored on the Humber Foreshore. (26:01) Mrs Sanderson managed her house and garden with virtually no help and kept up her work with the Girl Guides and Brownies during the war. (26:36) Eventually she had an Italian prisoner of war to help in the garden. They could not speak each other's language and there were some misunderstandings. She was not allowed to pay him. (28:57) Evacuees went to the Church Hall for a medical examination before they were sent off to people's homes. Some of them had very bad nits. People had to take in the evacuees if they were instructed to do so. Public access copy available on Preservica: https://eastriding.access.preservica.com/ (Search 'DDX1178/2/3')