apart from redmires area where were the prisoners of war stationed or camped who built parson cross

there were prisoners stationed @

Firbeck near to maltby during the 2nd world war

there were prisoners stationed @ Firbeck

Closer to Parson cross was the POW camp at bracken hill at High green

Originally posted by viking
Closer to Parson cross was the POW camp at bracken hill at High green

We lived on Heries Rd in the 50s right hand side comming from Southey Green, over a fence at the bottom of our garden there was some kind of a wooded area, we could watch the Germans buiding pre Fabs, no idea where there camp was or what that wooded area was, we never went in there, would it have been part of a park or something ? I think I'm remebering right, sometimes you dream of these things and think it's true.

Originally posted by butch1954uk
there were prisoners stationed @

Firbeck near to maltby during the 2nd world war

You sure? There was a Polish training squadron flying Lysanders from the Airfield that was part of Firbeck Hall Country Club before the war. Are you getting it mixed up or was there a POW camp somewhere too?

There was an Italian POW camp on the upper field behind what was Hunshelf Secondary Modern at Chapeltown / Ecclesfield. I've seen old aerial photos of the layout in the past. Be interesting to see them again.

Here is what it looks like now (http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=435000&Y=395500&scale=5000&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&lang=&db=freegaz)

Originally posted by roger
apart from redmires area where were the prisoners of war stationed or camped who built parson cross


I don't know where they were stationed but they certainly left their mark.

Wordsworth Avenue was originally all concrete. At it's junction with Margetson Crescent, right on the corner outside the Wordsworth Tavern, there is an inscription in the gutter made by them in the wet concrete.

Unfortunately it was all covered in Tarmac several years ago.

Originally posted by poppins
We lived on Heries Rd in the 50s right hand side comming from Southey Green, over a fence at the bottom of our garden there was some kind of a wooded area, we could watch the Germans buiding pre Fabs, no idea where there camp was or what that wooded area was, we never went in there, would it have been part of a park or something ? I think I'm remebering right, sometimes you dream of these things and think it's true.

Was that Scraith Wood, that rises up to overlook the Five Arches and Wardsend?

There were many pre-fabs there in the sixties. They have now been replaced by many more brick houses.

The wooded area originally ran right up to the Ritz on Wordsworth Avenue and was well used for charcoal making in the late 1800's. It formed a deep valley opposite the Forty Foot pub that was later used as a dump-it site by the Council. When the valley was full they covered it with Tarmac and made it into a small park, as it is today.

Dont know if its right but i remember my mom telling me there was a POW camp at Rivelin,and that a lot of them also used to work on the farms doing the labouring jobs ,as most of our young men were away at war.
I remember her telling me that they were so well treat that none of them bothered trying to escape!.

Click Here for POW Camps. (http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/dixie/921/PoWs/pows.htm)


Only Lodge Moor (No.17) and High Green (No.127) are listed for Sheffield.

back in the 70s I used to go out with a girl called Susan knaggs her grandfather had a car spares called "Freds motor spares" at Burngreave (still there different name!) painted direct onto the walls in the upstairs rooms were large murals which Fred claimed were done by the prisoners of war (how the prisoners came to be in Freds shop lord knows!)
Does any one know the whereabouts of Sue knaggs? she was a professional ice skater in the 70s.

which parts of the cross were built by them.
please tell me more.
And did they have anything to with the shiregreen estate.
Ironic really my grandad was a prisoner of war in germany and his trade was a bricklayer anyway.
wonder if they had them building over there.
Any info about this subject i would be grateful.


tara.

Originally posted by malxx
back in the 70s I used to go out with a girl called Susan knaggs her grandfather had a car spares called "Freds motor spares" at Burngreave (still there different name!) painted direct onto the walls in the upstairs rooms were large murals which Fred claimed were done by the prisoners of war (how the prisoners came to be in Freds shop lord knows!)
Does any one know the whereabouts of Sue knaggs? she was a professional ice skater in the 70s.
After the war ended it was some time before prisoners could be released and repatriated. In the meantime groups were sent out of the camps to work, and some were billeted where they worked, so maybe there was a working party billeted there for a while.

Originally posted by tara
which parts of the cross were built by them.
please tell me more.
And did they have anything to with the shiregreen estate.
Ironic really my grandad was a prisoner of war in germany and his trade was a bricklayer anyway.
wonder if they had them building over there.
Any info about this subject i would be grateful.


tara.

As far as I am aware, the houses on ''New'' Parson Cross were built by a number of private building companies under contract to Sheffield Corporation in 1947. Each house is said to have cost approx £200.

Early residents were invited to lay the paving slab footpaths for a bit of extra cash so I don't know what the POW's did - maybe just the concrete roads.

Originally posted by tara
which parts of the cross were built by them.
please tell me more.
And did they have anything to with the shiregreen estate.
Ironic really my grandad was a prisoner of war in germany and his trade was a bricklayer anyway.
wonder if they had them building over there.
Any info about this subject i would be grateful.


tara.

Hi Tara,

My Gran lived in Parson Cross for years (although she always claimed it was Ecclesfield! :hihi: ) and I remember she told me that St. Michael's Road and St. Margaret's crescent were built by the POWs. They were concrete at the time, but that was in the late eighties. Don't know if they have been resurfaced now...

K x

Originally posted by butch1954uk
there were prisoners stationed @

Firbeck near to maltby during the 2nd world war

I think it was at Ravenfield for Italian POW's.
My dad was stationed there as a guard; rehabilitation after being wounded on the Normandy Landings.

He had a cigarrete lighter given to him by one of the POW's who had been a jeweller/ silversmith in civvy street.

It had been made out of cutlery from the camp & beautifully engraved with Mum & Dad's names.

Originally posted by Tony

There was an Italian POW camp on the upper field behind what was Hunshelf Secondary Modern at Chapeltown / Ecclesfield. I've seen old aerial photos of the layout in the past. Be interesting to see them again.

Here is what it looks like now (http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=435000&Y=395500&scale=5000&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&lang=&db=freegaz)

Interesting photo Tony.

The 'parch marks' in the fields to the right look very clear.

Last year whilst on holiday in Spain - we got talking (like you do) to an elderly welsh couple - he just turned out to the camp electrician at Redmires PoW camp during the war. He hated it, seems it was always going off and the weather was generally poor (funny that 60 years on and its still the same!)

Small world.

my sister in law lives in parsons cross n im just wondering, when u say the POW's built it do u mean they just built the roads or the houses aswell?

Originally posted by Unregistered
I don't know where they were stationed but they certainly left their mark.

Wordsworth Avenue was originally all concrete. At it's junction with Margetson Crescent, right on the corner outside the Wordsworth Tavern, there is an inscription in the gutter made by them in the wet concrete.

Unfortunately it was all covered in Tarmac several years ago.

No it hasnt! its still there! part of the road has been tarmaced but the mark remains. I lived in the house opposite the tavern for years, only left recently.

Its worth having a look at before it is covered, it is a line with shorter ones cutting through it, I dont know what it means does anyone else? My mum told me about it as a child that it was made by the prisoners of war but never investigated it further.

Any info! ?

Alex xx

Algy and Kristian made comments that ring true with my mother's recollections made to me years ago.

I lived on Parson Cross,and my mother told me that prisoners were billetted in several locations all over northern Sheffield during the war, including Italians at a farm on the opposite corners of the road to The Greyhound pub in Ecclesfield.
They were building the roads at the foot of Wordsworth Avenue, up into what would become 'the Cross'.

A particulary amusing incident i can recall which i hope embarresses no-one any more.
An elderley religous lady once turned up on our doorstep back in the 70's, as they did/do, trying to sell the virtues of her religion, only to be told in no uncertain terms by my mother(totally out of character) where she could go !
When the whole family had closed there wide open mouths , we asked her what had happened.
Apparently the aforesaid lady was once , how shall i put this, 'fond of Italian', and well known for her fondnes of the aforesaid.
Seems like sweet surrender on that occasion........

My Dad was in Crimicar Lane Hospital quite a lot off/on then transferred to Lodge Moor. I believe there was a POW camp out there because I heard Dad talking about it to Mam. Don't know much else about it though.

There was indeed a p.o.w. camp at Lodge Moor - now it's a wood surrounded mostly by a high wall. Earlier posts were quite correct about the prisoners being well treated, though there was one escape attempt. One of the prisoners allegedly gave the game away and was beaten up by the others; he later died and two prisoners were tried for murder and hanged. It's also correct that the prisoners remained here for quite a long time after the war ended. So long, in fact, that by the time I was born in April 1948 one of them was still here and became my godfather. This was because he had become such a friend of the family, after my grandfather (an old soldier who remembered kindnesses from Germans after the 1918 armistice) answered an advert. in "The Star" in December 1946 and invited two p.o.w.'s for Christmas. Karl Fauser was a fine man who taught me German during many visits to Ludwigsburg, so that I still speak it fairly fluently (albeit with a Swabian accent) and I still have a liking for Lowenbrau. Karl died in 2002, aged 87; his name can still be found in St Polycarp's baptismal register.

Click Here for POW Camps. (http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/dixie/921/PoWs/pows.htm)


Only Lodge Moor (No.17) and High Green (No.127) are listed for Sheffield.
This is a old thread but walking past lodge moor (about 41) the rd was coverd with Italian P.O's walking along going for a stroll to Wyming Brook Etc I'd be 6-on & they loved to practice their english on us.I can just think what people would say today

You sure? There was a Polish training squadron flying Lysanders from the Airfield that was part of Firbeck Hall Country Club before the war. Are you getting it mixed up or was there a POW camp somewhere too?

There was an Italian POW camp on the upper field behind what was Hunshelf Secondary Modern at Chapeltown / Ecclesfield. I've seen old aerial photos of the layout in the past. Be interesting to see them again.

Here is what it looks like now (http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=435000&Y=395500&scale=5000&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&lang=&db=freegaz)


It was still there in the mid fifties. I remember it as I used to take a short cut to Burncross (to my Gran's) from the side of the then Ecclesfield Grammar School.

I remember the P.O.W camp at Lodge Moor as we were always warned to keep away from the area, but I thought it was for Italians

My cousin started going with a German prisoner from Lodge Moor toward the end of the war. Hw could speak little English and Jean couldn't speak German. When he went home I got the job of translating his letters to her, and hers to him, since I was fluent in German, and she paid me for the work and to keep me quiet. There was a small Italian camp near Stony Middleton in Derbyshire. When we'd go by the Italians used to give us money to go get them cigarettes in the village. We were allowed to walk in by the guards and made pals of the prisoners.

If my young memory is correct there was two camp's at lodge moor,the Italian's let loose early(the good one's that is)the Germans didn't wander untill quite late, 41? maybe I remember the school buss when we first heard some German were let out.

apart from redmires area where were the prisoners of war stationed or camped who built parson cross
Hi Roger I am not sure of a pow camp at redmires 1939 war, but I know there was during 1914 war because my father was stationed there during his service in the RASC , He learned a lot of the german language from them, he used to teach me but that all stopped when the 1939 war started, Cheers Arthur.

There was certainly a p.o.w. camp at Lodge Moor during the Second World War, and this must be the camp which is being referred to as Redmires. It was built in the early 1900s as an army camp, and was used to train soldiers during the First World War. Perhaps it was also used to house p.o.w.'s at that time - I was not aware of this, but during the Second World War the Lodge Moor camp became p.o.w. camp No 17 and held both Italian and German prisoners at various times. This site gives a map of WW2 p.o.w. camps: http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/LIST%20OF%20UK%20POW%20CAMPS1.htm and this site gives some details of escape attempts, including one from Lodge Moor: http://www.powcamp.fsnet.co.uk/German_And_Italian_Escape_Attempts_From_Other_Camp s_In_Great_Britain.htm

hi all now trying to find dads war history and looking to get a copy of his medels
any help here?

Sean

dad was born 1906 and served in Sheffield
looking after the pow;s in sheffield

hi all now trying to find dads war history and looking to get a copy of his medels
any help here?

Sean

it might cost you as my family did the same and got all my grandads info and new medals , which i belive cost £50 i will try to find were yu send off to for you and post back on here ,

i hope the link helps you as it did us good luck ask Helen Curtis

www.genealogicalservices.co.uk

Just talking about this today with one of our neighbours. We are positioned near the Acorn at Burncross, and the estate was built on a former POW camp.

He dug out some photo's of pics of the camp before it was demolished to make way for the estate.

Jim:thumbsup:

back in the 70s I used to go out with a girl called Susan knaggs her grandfather had a car spares called "Freds motor spares" at Burngreave (still there different name!) painted direct onto the walls in the upstairs rooms were large murals which Fred claimed were done by the prisoners of war (how the prisoners came to be in Freds shop lord knows!)
Does any one know the whereabouts of Sue knaggs? she was a professional ice skater in the 70s.
i always thought fred knaggs was a photoghrapher

sorry about the spelling

Hello
My Grandfather was a German POW at Lodge Moor Sheffield. He was captured 22nd September 1944 at Nijmegan Holland by the US 82nd Airbourne. Does anyone have any photo's or video clips of the camp old or new.

please email on beyond3d@hotmail.co.uk

Kind Regards

Paul

i always thought fred knaggs was a photoghrapher

sorry about the spelling

Started my family tree a few months ago, my parents wedding photographer was called Fred Knaggs they married in 1957 at ST Cuthberts Church in Fir Vale

I became interested in POW Camp 17 at Redmires whilst looking for the site of ths Sheffield Pals battalion which was in the next field. I took several photographs last year of what still remains of the POW camp and these have been given to Sheffield Local Studies in the Central Library. I understand these will be included on their Picturesheffield website when they get round to it. In the meantime, they will probably be available for inspection on their terminals on the 1st floor of the building. There is also a sketch plan which shows which bits the photos relate to.

The remains are mostly of the foundations & floor slabs of the Nissen huts measuring about 35 x 5.5 metres, which were used as sleeping accommodation, but it is also possible to locate latrines by the white glazed channel blocks in floor slabs, collapsed boiler house chimneys and what could be emergency water storage tanks.

By coincidence, I have been able to contact Heinz-Georg L. who was a prisoner there from late 1945. He tells that there were around 1000 officers, up to the rank of Colonel. in the camp, they slept 50 to a Nissen hut in two-tiered wooden bunks. H-G L is an amateur artist who completed water colour sketches and woodcuts of interior of the camp. Copies of these,too, are also with Local Studies. He was transferred later to a satellite camp at Ravenfield, nr. Hooton Roberts, where he befriended Uli Steinhilper, a Luftwaffe fighter pilot who is a noted author. Steinhilper was never at Redmires, but spent most of his captivity in Canada where he made several escape attempts.

There was a prisoner of war camp on Cinderhill Lane Norton. It was a German camp.In 1946 the prisoners were allowed out of the camp and used to walk around Graves Park. I and my friends met some and my Father invited them back to our house. He also took them to the Heeley Palace on Saturday evenings. I can remember how shocked our nieghbours were at the time. My friends and I took them to the Parish Hall dance at the end of Cliffefield Road Meersbrook. We had to borrow civilian clothes for them. The ones I knew were 19 and 20 year old and had been conscripted at 16. I often wonder what happened to them. Many were really afraid to go back because they came from the border of Poland and the Russians were there.

Thanks for the information Rhonda very interesting! I am trying to find dads war history I think he was a gaurd at the prisen camp Thanks Sean

The remains are mostly of the foundations & floor slabs of the Nissen huts measuring about 35 x 5.5 metres, which were used as sleeping accommodation, but it is also possible to locate latrines by the white glazed channel blocks in floor slabs, collapsed boiler house chimneys and what could be emergency water storage tanks.

I mentioned on another thread about this I shot a film on this site about 6 years ago called Last patrol....it features close ups and views of most of the remains of the site, shot during a lovely Summery week in 2003.....very atmospheric......

Not a prisoner of war camp, but some kind of "glasshouse" for Allied airman, was apparently opposite the Norton Hotel, Bochum Parkway. A friend says she used to see Canadians behind the wire there, also some connection with a R.E.M.E. station. Perhaps someone could clarify.

There was an RAF disciplinary camp in Sheffield, I have some info on it somewhere but don't know where it is !
I'm sure I've read somewhere that LMF (Lack of moral fibre) cases were sent there.

Bayern Blade- this may have been the place then.

There was an RAF disciplinary camp in Sheffield, I have some info on it somewhere but don't know where it is !
I'm sure I've read somewhere that LMF (Lack of moral fibre) cases were sent there.

The RAF camp at Norton was used for LMF cases during the war.

G-Day
How are u all?? Born and bread in Parson Cross now lving in Australia. I am into tracing my family history
My father was in the british army. I think was a warden in the pow camp in Sheffield I have applied to he defence department and got his medels thanks to your help but how do I get his military history? thanks Sean

I was brought up in Firbeck (born in 63) and I'm pretty sure it was just used for aircraft and associated personnel. I don't think POWs were held there. I used to play in the remnants of the military buildings - even now military impedimenta can be found around the woodland. It's a lovely peaceful spot.

And I know this doesn't quite answer the question but my nan who died in her nineties in 2005 was born and raised in a farm on City Rd Sheffield (it's a KFC now.) She says as a very small girl in WW1 she used to wander up to manor top and chat to the POWs who would be working on the land on the big junction up there (opposite the chippy.) Whether her recollection is accurate is a moot point. Especially as I don't think her infant German can have been that extensive.

Jonathan

Just talking about this today with one of our neighbours. We are positioned near the Acorn at Burncross, and the estate was built on a former POW camp.

He dug out some photo's of pics of the camp before it was demolished to make way for the estate.

Jim:thumbsup:

My parents were living on Sheringham Road, which was just across from the Acorn, when I was born in 1948. At that point it was housingfor young couples I believe. We lived ther for a few years until we moved to Greengate Lane.

My dad an Irish man was stationed at Lodge Moor Camp looking after the Italian prisoners of war.Being catholic he went to St Vincents to mass and he spotted my mum and asked her out this was in1940.

Interesting photo Tony.

The 'parch marks' in the fields to the right look very clear.
They're Ecclesfield school football pitches.
Ther was an Ack Ack gun emplacement where the car park is now at the rear of Park Avenue. It was still there in 1974, we used to play there on the way home from school.

Quite right. We always called it the army camp. Started up a concrete road at the top of Park Avenue. First hut we called the G Hut on the right going up. Then you came to the Ack Ack gun circles.

Has anyone got a photo, they were still there as you say in 1974 but was cleared to make way for the estate.

These guns cracked ceilings in Ecclesfield with the vibration during the war.

During the war, a friend of mine (still alive) who was a singer, toured many of the prisoner-of-war camps and army bases around Sheffield entertaining the guards and soldiers.

Hi all

I am a post graduate student at the University of Sheffield. I am working on a project about the POW in Lodge moor and I got into contact with a lady that translated a German prisoner's diary during WWII. But I am interested in finding and interviewing people or families who were directly involved in the lodge moor camp or had relatives living in the camp during WWII. My deadline is the end of this week so I appreciate contacting me as soon as possible.

Please contact me by replying to this message or send me an email to: dima.hamdallah@gmail.com

Thanks

Dima

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Hi all

I am a post graduate student at the University of Sheffield. I am working on a project about the POW in Lodge moor and I got into contact with a lady that translated a German prisoner's diary during WWII. But I am interested in finding and interviewing people or families who were directly involved in the lodge moor camp or had relatives living in the camp during WWII. My deadline is the end of this week so I appreciate contacting me as soon as possible.

Please contact me by replying to this message or send me an email to: dima.hamdallah@gmail.com

Thanks

Dima

Look Here (http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=4580&view=findpost&p=68071) Or is this you too? ;)

I dont think there enough time any one working at Lodge Moor would be 85 yrs old I use to talk to the Italians but i was only 6-7 no one talk to the Germans untill 46

Hi all

The link below is to a short video package we've compiled about the Lodge Moor POW camp.

Thanks for all your help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqCddrgoW74

Very good informative video, thanks! The footage of the place as it is now brings back so many memories for me, especially my late dad, me, my wife and kids walking our dogs through there over so many years. Virtually my last memory of my dad was walking 'Gyp' there one sunny summers evening a few days before he died. I 'inherited' Gyp after that and returned every weekend to walk him in that eerie and thought provoking place.

Has anyone ever noticed the half buried ringbolts on the perimeter. My dad always said that they were used to secure the barbed wire fences. Hope that's true.

my mum used to tell me there was a pow camp at the top of Wood Lane at Stannington, not sure whether it was technically a pow camp or a refugee camp, but as she was only 12 at the time the war ended I doubt she'd have known the difference

If anyone has been to 'Eden Camp' military museum, there is a photo of Italian POW at High Green camp which was at Potter Hill, High Green (taken from military records). My husbands grandmother lived on Wortley Road, High Green and said she could see the camp from their house and the Italian POW on Potter Hill.

If anyone has been to 'Eden Camp' military museum, there is a photo of Italian POW at High Green camp which was at Potter Hill, High Green (taken from military records). My husbands grandmother lived on Wortley Road, High Green and said she could see the camp from their house and the Italian POW on Potter Hill.

Very interested to inquire regarding this camp. We have uncovered some handmade wooden photoframes and decorative boxes made by the "German Kath PsOW of Potter Hill camp gifted to the reverend camp priest at Christmas 1946.

Any details abouthe camp would be of great interest.

One name signed to a small photo frame is "Simon Georg - POW 1944-1948"

Very interested to inquire regarding this camp. We have uncovered some handmade wooden photoframes and decorative boxes made by the "German Kath PsOW of Potter Hill camp gifted to the reverend camp priest at Christmas 1946.

Any details abouthe camp would be of great interest.

One name signed to a small photo frame is "Simon Georg - POW 1944-1948"
Try the Local Studies library or Sheffield Archives they should be able to help you.

There was a prisoner of war camp on Cinderhill Lane Norton. It was a German camp.In 1946 the prisoners were allowed out of the camp and used to walk around Graves Park. I and my friends met some and my Father invited them back to our house. He also took them to the Heeley Palace on Saturday evenings. I can remember how shocked our nieghbours were at the time. My friends and I took them to the Parish Hall dance at the end of Cliffefield Road Meersbrook. We had to borrow civilian clothes for them. The ones I knew were 19 and 20 year old and had been conscripted at 16. I often wonder what happened to them. Many were really afraid to go back because they came from the border of Poland and the Russians were there.

I remember seeing the P.O.W'S in Graves park when I was a little girl and in city center too., the ironic thing about the camp at Norton was that one of our neighbours helped build it, he himself had been in a Japanese P O W camphe was a master carpenter and actually got a commendation for the splendid work he did at Norton camp

I remember the camp at Wood Lane it would be around 1954-5 it was roughly where the Marchwood estate is now.

g-day
My father I think was a prison warden in the last war(www2) in sheffield can any one tell me how to find out more info please.
Thanks Sean Giblin now Brisbane Australia

[QUOTE=Sean Giblin;8807650]g-day
My father I think was a prison warden in the last war(www2) in sheffield can any one tell me how to find out more info please.

'Lo Sean.
Guess you must be referring to your father being a guard at Redmires POW. camp, and you've told you already have his medals. You will need his Army No. to eliminate any with similar names and this maybe inscribed around the edge of each medal if you are lucky. If it is, his regiment will also be given, though this will be abbreviated into just initials & you may need some help to tell what it is if you aren't familiar with the Brit. regiments. If your medals came with a copy of the medal card, this should also give his regiment, or it may be possible to identify his unit if you have photo of him in uniform with a badge on his cap. That's a starter to be able to get in touch with either the regimental archives, who might make a small charge for advice, or one of the several websites which claim to be able to give info. on ex-squaddies.

The more background you have, the better and you are blessed with a fairly unusual surname which will make identification easier. Other than that, you could contact any living relatives to fill in details or, if he lived in Sheffield for any length of time, a letter to "The Star" newspaper could put you in touch with someone who remembers him.

I've recently done this to find the family of a wartime Aussie pilot. It took three months for my letter to be printed in the Sydney Morning Herald but, when it was, I had eight replies from readers who had information or offered assistance.

Thanks for the information Sean Giblin

g-day
My father I think was a prison warden in the last war(www2) in sheffield can any one tell me how to find out more info please.
Thanks Sean Giblin now Brisbane Australia
Contact Army Historical Records at Glassgow to obtain your fathers service records.
Details are on Google.

Try contacting the local studies library and archives at Sheffield for general information.

Thanks Harvey much appreciated

i lived on greenhill in the 50/60
and our neighbour who lived in greenhill village remembers
prisoners of war walking from there camp somewhere at norton to a quarry on
twentiwell lane not sure which war but remember as a lad seeing
the flattened remainsof the camp

just remembered cinderhill lane on the right hand side i think was pow camp at norton.......................