{"id":1865,"date":"2015-12-01T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2025-07-19T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:10:59","slug":"remembering-grandpas-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/remembering-grandpas-birthday","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Grandpa’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charles George Hibbitt beside his Austin A55<\/p><\/div>\n

1ST DECEMBER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My Grandpa Hibbitt<\/a><\/strong> was born on this day, 1st December, in 1898. Gosh, it’s hard to equate that I knew someone who was born in the 19th century! His father was a coastguard serving at Soldier’s Point near Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland (there was no Northern or Southern in those days) and so this is where Grandpa came into the world.<\/p>\n

Cars were just one of his hobbies and here he is proudly standing beside his Austin A55 at Widemouth, most likely taken during the 1950’s or 1960’s.<\/p>\n

(From my grandpa\u2019s collection of old slides \u2013 see this post<\/a><\/strong> for more information.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1ST DECEMBER My Grandpa Hibbitt was born on this day, 1st December, in 1898. Gosh, it’s hard to equate that I knew someone who was born in the 19th century! His father was a coastguard serving at Soldier’s Point near … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,13],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grandpas-old-slides","category-on-this-day","category-sharing-memories","tag-hibbitt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t