Title:
Interview with Geoff Barsby
Level: Category
Sound Archive
Level: Fonds
TED HALEY RECORDINGS
Scope and Content:
Title: Memories of Canvey Island and R.N. Destroyers - Geoff Barsby
Speaker(s): Barsby, Geoff; Haley, Edward
Date of recording: 3/2/83
Length of tape: 45 mins
Depositor Haley, Edward
Restrictions: Copyright E. Haley
Synopsis of tape: Memories of Geoff Barsby, born 1930; family background; first job on leaving school in local Co-op, wages and hours; volunteered for Navy in 1942; commuting from Canvey to London before the war, transport; part-time fireman from age of 22 - equipment; postwar career in Co-op; memories of the flood of 1953; description of trying to rescue people, evacuation, collecting bodies, rescue of pets; discussion of creeks and dykes; attitudes of islanders to flooding; apprehension about possible oil refinery explosion and chemicals; attitude to retirement; details of Royal Navy service including training, Malta convoy, surrender of Singapore and D-Day; attitude to D-Day.
Dates of Creation:
1983
Custodial History:
Ted Haley Accession Number A0121
Related Unit of Description:
Press cutting catalogued as SA 20/1138/4

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Subjects Floods Memories of Canvey Island and R.N. Destroyers - Geoff Barsby, 1983
Subjects Retail trade Memories of Canvey Island and R.N. Destroyers - Geoff Barsby, 1983
Subjects Second World War Memories of Canvey Island and R.N. Destroyers - Geoff Barsby, 1983
Document Types Sound recording Memories of Canvey Island and R.N. Destroyers - Geoff Barsby, 1983