Jane Gibbs – My Dad’s connection to Packs

Simon: And your dad had a connection with various versions of the Pack and Pack shops.

Jane: He did. I believe he started working for David Guy around the early 1960s and that wasn’t his only job but he used to go in and do repairs and help build some of the Carnival Floats as well because they used to go and enter Ryde Carnival and I’m guessing other Carnivals as well for quite a few years I believe.

Simon: And what was the stuff he was doing in the shops for them?

Jane: He would do any alterations that David wanted doing, any repairs to the building itself, I would imagine mostly interior and not exterior. He knew them quite well but he was always very respectful. It mean it was Mr Guy and Mrs Guy and they called him Mr Simmonds, so it was, yeah that was the way it was then.