Local doctors invited patients in the priority group over 80 to visit the cathedral and receive their first doses of vaccine.
More than 3.23 million people received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in the UK on Saturday, according to the news agency PA Media.
“It was absolutely wonderful to enter this wonderful building and receive this blow,” said Godwin in an interview with the news agency PA Media. “I’ve had a lot of jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and received some jabs that knocked me down for a week.
“This one, the doctor said to me ‘Very well’ and I thought he hadn’t started. So it is no problem and no pain,” he added.
Godwin said World War II was “totally different” from the pandemic “because it divided people”.
“You see each other virtually, but I have a very large family, I have 12 great-grandchildren now from four months to 23 years old. I don’t see them and they are all growing, ”he explained.
Cathedral organist John Challenger said in a tweet that “he would play Largo de Handel and a lot more excellent organ music” when the cathedral became a vaccination center.
“This is the place where daily prayer is offered for the healing of the city, for the healing of the nation. In order to be able to come here today to receive these life-saving vaccines, I am very happy that we can do our part in this,” the Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, told CNN affiliate ITV news.
There have been more than 3.3 million cases of Covid-19 recorded in the UK, and the country has the highest death toll in Europe, with more than 87,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.