Interview with Gordon Cook

Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00 Wartime Hull: Bombing, evacuation (Harrogate and Market Weighton) and Father’s reserved occupation as joiner (04:13 Education: Priory Road School and Hull Grammar School (05:15 Work in insurance from 1950s and later in adult education (09:50 Family Holidays 1940s: Withernsea and Bridlington (18:00 National Service in 1958: West Yorkshire Regiment at York (Imphal Barracks) 21:30 National Service in 1958: merging of East and West Yorkshire Regiments (into Prince of Wale’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire); 23:50 National Service in 1958: Regimental HQ Victoria Barracks, Beverley 43:40 Modern Regeneration of Victoria Barracks site 46:00 Paul Cook: Gordon’s Army ancestor at Beverley and Paull during the Napoleonic Wars