WW2 POW Camp in High Green.

[Guest tsavo]

This site gives details of life in a British POW camp in WW2. Lists location's of all mainland POW camps.

Included one at High Green.

http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/dixie/921/PoWs/pows.htm

[Guest JackD]

I remember the POW camp at lodgemoor,next to the hospital.Iwas in the hospital with diphtheria. Which i understand was an epidemic at the time, i was classed as a carrier, so was kept in isolation.

The prisoners also used the hospital, i can remember them entertaining all the kids in the ward.

[dunsbyowl1867]

This site gives details of life in a British POW camp in WW2. Lists location's of all mainland POW camps.

Included one at High Green.

http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/dixie/921/PoWs/pows.htm

That's facinating Tsavo - there are one or two of those camps near where I live in Lincolnshire and the farm near us had some POWs there in WW2 picking blackcurrents for Ribena!

If anyone is up in North Yorkshire pay this place on th list a visit to get a feel of what the camps were like and a brilliant museum.

http://www.edencamp.co.uk/

[Guest tsavo]

Visited Eden Camp a few years ago and thoroughly emjoyed it. Well worth a visit.

[Guest SapperTaylor]

Hi all,

My deceased Grandmother lived most of her life in High Green. When I was a kid she told me about the American soldiers from the POW camp. Apparently some local women were overheard talking by Yanks lurking within ear shot who promptly tried to get them arrested as spies from the far east.

The females were gossiping about another and part of the conversation went... 'arr she were aht las neet!' 'she never wha, oowashiwee?' .... or words to that effect!

The local lingo musta bin a nightmare for em eh cocker?

Cheers

Chris