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Author Tells Story of Gibraltar Evacuees in Roehampton
Around 1,000 were housed in centres in the area during the Blitz Gibraltar children at Whiteland’s with Joe Gingell sitting on floor, first from the right
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A man who was evacuated from Gibraltar during the Second World War has documented the experience of those who were brought here in 1940 including around a thousand who, like him, were housed in Roehampton.
Joe Gingell tells how, at the outbreak of war, with uncertainty over the stance of Franco’s fascist regime in Spain, a large number of people from Gibraltar were evacuated to French Morocco which was the nearest allied territory. However, after the defeat of France and the destruction of the French Fleet at Oran by the Royal Navy, the Vichy French authorities order the expulsion of the Gibraltar evacuees who were given 24 hours to leave.
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Padding through the Saharan sand, pleasantly fatigued by the sea air, I gazed right to the outline of Morocco as a group of swimmers raced for the water. The stresses of the pandemic had slipped away. This was my first time in Gibraltar, but somehow it felt familiar.
I’d arrived that morning, on day one of the resumption of foreign holidays. Beginning with a ride on the cable car for views out over the 1,396ft tall (at its highest point) hulking limestone rock, I’d seen the sweep of the same (man-made) Sandy Bay from far above. The kerfuffle I’d experienced on arrival soon washed away.
Exhibition committee records given to Gibraltar Archives 20th April 2021
Lionel W, Culatto and John S Langdon, the last remaining members of the Exhibition Committee, have given records to the Gibraltar National Archives.
Their records relate to 1979 and part of 1984 and the handover of the permanent collection to the City Hall on December 7, 2010 have been offered to the Government Archivist and accepted for the Gibraltar Archives.
The records start with their first exhibition in the Old Bakery, Town Range, 1979 and end in 1980 when “their vision for an integrated Cultural Centre was shattered.”
“The 1970s was a time when some of us returned from studying in England and had a tremendous energy and vision and wanted to improve the Arts facilities and other cultural activities available in Gibraltar, an integrated Cultural Centre,” the committee said.
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