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| Thread Topic: Stamford Prisoner of War Camp Topic Originator: Joe Post Date September 4, 2007 @ 12:29 PM |
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| Joe |
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Does anyone have any photos of the POW CAMP that was on Empingham Road? ...I would be most grateful to hear from anyone who has! Kate: Hi Joe. Anyone out there who can help Joe with POW CAMP photos? |
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| Peta |
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I don't have a photo, but I can remember a family living in the first hut who my mother gave our old pram to and orange juice which was a weekly ration allocated for children's welfare, in return for home made lavender bags. They were a very happy family with about four children. Kate: Thanks for that Peta. Yes, you could get those bottles of orange juice from the clinic. The orange juice was scrumptious really concentrated if you didn't dilute it much. Those lavender bags sound nice as well. You can sometimes find them at craft fairs etc. I wonder who that family was in the first hut? Anyone out there remember them or the village atmosphere on the Prisoner of War Camp? |
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| Richard Campbell |
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My Mother may have some photos...I'll ask her. My sister and I were born there.....Oak Walk I believe was the 'street'. Every year council workers used to come and spray the huts with tar to keep then waterproof. My Mother used to dread it as it usually meant that my sister and I were also waterproofed. Most people who lived there ended up on the North Fields estate....we did. Kate: Not too bad then. From "The Prisoner" to "Field of Dreams" Richard.Bet you dread the smell of tar when the roads are resurfaced. |
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| Richard Campbell |
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Hi Kate, The smell of tar certainly brings back memories. My Father made our first television when we were at the Camp. I can remember the neighbours coming round to watch it on it's maiden showing. It occupied 3 tea chests and Fathers only contribution to aestetices was to varnish the chests.....but you could still see'Product of Ceylon through the varnish. After about an hour of working the whole thing overheated and had to be switched off to cool down, during this time tea was made. Also to get the best signal the aerial, which was outside on a long pole, had the be rotated. Usually Mother was sent out to do this ....shouts of 'back a bit....no not that way and are you turning it', still echo after all of this time. We moved from the North Fields estate to Highlands Way in 1960 and the Camp became our playground....the huts had almost gone then but the foundations and roadways were still there . My friend and I had an old motorbike and used to push it to the Camp and ride it around. Richard Kate: What a clever Dad! and those tea chests were so useful! |
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| Roger |
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Remember the camp as could see the remains from our back bedroom window. Knew one or two people who lived there. After the huts were demolished it became a residential caravan site until 1967. I also remember Richard as a few of us went around together for a short time in the early 60s and my grandparents moved next door to him. Kate: Oh, yes it was a caravan site (ready made with the standings being the base of the old huts). Now its just posh houses! |
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| Clem Walden |
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Remember the Empingham Road POW camp, as a young lad we would go up to the camp, & walk by the fence giving the Winston Churchhill "V" sign, we thought this was clever then. However most of the prisoners were Polish or Italians. many worked on the pre-fab site that was being developed in the late 40s, the site was on the old football ground bottom of the essex road & in front of kings road, Northfields area, the old Fane school & green lane was to the left of this site. At the time I lived in Tolethorpe Square, & would play in the partly built pre-fabs & trenches they were digging for the infrastructure. When all the prisoners left, the old huts were used for family housing, my sister lived up the camp when she first got married, so did many other locals. In 1951-1953 I worked for Hunters Tea Stores as an Errand boy, Hunters was opposite Burtons in the high Street. I delivered many groceries to the camp to various families. the last person to leave the old camp was Tommy Regis, who still lives in the Town, I also remember that some of the prisoners would do wood carvings & sell them to the locals, "pecking Chickens" " Climbing monkeys" most of which would be decorated by cigarette burns, unfortunately I have no photos, only pictures in my mind, & fond memories of days gone by. |
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| Brian Dodson |
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As a 11 year old school boy i attended Exeter school on Empingham Road Stamford, i remember the watch tower at the POW site opposite Exeter school, my best school mates Dad was a German POW and was held at Stamford POW camp during WW2. i first attended Exeter school as from 1967. Hi Brian. Thanks for your postings. Kate |
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| alan tutt |
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Has anyone got a photo of the Stamford camp? There seem to be none in existence |
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