Cine footage with a few stills thrown in of my Grandpa Hibbitt (Charles George Hibbitt: 1898-1972).
Known as Charlie, he was born near Dundalk in Ireland. His father was a Coastguard and the family moved around before settling in Devon. Charlie went to live and work in Tavistock as a telephone engineer and inspector before retiring to East Allington in the South Hams area of Devon.
Grandpa’s hobbies included cars and motorbikes (he was a motorcycle despatch rider during WW1), boats, short wave radio, photography and capturing cine films. He was more often than not, behind the camera, but I’ve managed to find a few short clips of him amongst the family collection.
This video can also be viewed on my YouTube channel at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNs3ymlohd0
and in my website video gallery at
https://www.hibbitt.org.uk/gallery/videos/video-album/0035-grandpa-hibbitt/
