Gibb photograph archive, Volume 1

No. 95 - The crater on site of Lodge. Ex[eter]. May [19]42.

The Abbot's Lodge was the home of the headmaster. The bombing of the Lodge on 25th April 1942 took the life of Rev. Langhorne's daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Langhorne, aged 29.

See photograph 77 and photograph 78 for views of the Lodge photographed in April, the same month as the bombing.

Gibb must have been away from Exeter during the actual bombing. The previous 15 negatives, all for May 1942, suggest he was with his parents, at Broadwater, with visits to Bosham, West Sussex. None of the boys was at the school during the air raids.