Interview with Gertrude M Rispin

Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Birth in Lairgate, Beverley 5 June 1916 (01:30) Childhood memories (02:15) Air raids First and Second World Wars (05:04) Father’s work as a gas stoker at Beverley gas works (05:30) Meeting Admiral Walker in Beverley as a child (06:35) Father’s work as a gas stoker at Beverley gas works (08:05) Mother’s unofficial nursing and philanthropy in Beverley during 1920s (10:00) Grandparents: Grandfather’s work as a shepherd and Grandmother’s Victorian attire (12:50) Retail in Beverley during 1920s (15:40) Beverley industries (17:00) Swimming in the River at ‘the brick’ (17:35) Childhood illness: a mastoid during 1920s (19:20) Seaside holidays: Bridlington and Barmston during 1920s (20:39) Visiting Aunt with thirteen children at a farm at Barmston in 1920s (24:15) Horse and cart transport in the East Riding in 1920s (26:00) First World War: Soldiers at Victoria Barracks, injuries (28:05) Unemployment during the 1930s (29:25) School in Beverley (31:30) Domestic service at Beverley Vicarage (32:30) Working at Hammonds department store in Hull c. 1940 (33:15) World War II: The Hull Blitz – The bombing of Hammonds store (36:20) World War II: Bombing of Flemingate (37:20) World War II: Fire watching and auxiliary fire service (40:40) World War II Rationing