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junkcatcher wrote:Long dead thread but rather than start a new one ---
I am looking for info on WW2 PoW Camps in Scotland in particular Camp 19 Happendon Camp near Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire ? My father was stationed at the camp guarding (!) Italians who didn't take too much guarding prior to his unit being trained for the planned invasion of Japan.
dopirt wrote:Hi, The Resettlement Unit at Bishopbriggs closed on the 31st March 1996. I know this because I was employed there for 20 years. That wooden Bus Shelter you can see on the left hand side of the main gate, it was I and a few of the guys that layed the base and erected it. The building just to the right of the picture was as follows: Dinning room, store room, staff dinning room then dormitories. There is not one inch of this place I dont know.
moonbeam wrote:Spent time at Cultybraggen Camp in the early 1950s. There were still notices in German in some of the huts. Go and see it. It looks like a WW2 "movie" set of an army/prison camp. There were "wee" gardens at the front and rear of some of the huts-overgrown-but the Germans must have tended them.The "open" toilets were amazing!!
Why cant they market this place for any WW2 movies that might be made.
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