Need help finding a moor.

[Alcoblog]

I find the links that posters have provided really interesting. The only knowledge I have of Redmires was from my Grandad when I was just a kid. I've always (mistakenly, I guess) presumed he meant WW2 ... working it out, it must have been WW1. He also told me about the POW camp (now gypsies) at Lodge Moor ... I've never really given it much thought before. I'm vaguely aware of the history of Lodge Moor Hospital ... I'm now going to Google stuff as I'm genuinely interested. If anyone has any good links, let me know please.

Hope I'm not being off topic here and that it's what the OP is referring to.

[lyme]

Alco, if you use facebook join the group "Redmires POW camp community heritage project."

[Alcoblog]

Alco, if you use facebook join the group "Redmires POW camp community heritage project."

I try not to use Facebook normally. I'll look it up though ... thanks! I'd really love to find out what my Granddad did ... little is known of him.

[lyme]

I try not to use Facebook normally. I'll look it up though ... thanks! I'd really love to find out what my Granddad did ... little is known of him.

 

I can't stand facebook, but it does have it's uses in situations like this.

[shanes teeth]

I think,but not absolutley sure,that the WW1 "Sheffield Pals" training camp and the WW2 POW camp were two different sites at Redmires/Lodge Moor.The Pals left the camp at Redmires for further training at Ripon and on Salisbury Plain before being sent overseas first to Egypt and then to France to take part in the battle of the Somme in July 1916.I visited Sheffield Memorial Park at Serre this summer to see the area where the Pals lost so many in the opening hours of the battle.Standing where the trenches were and looking up the field towards the village of Serre it seemed,even now,to be an impossible task.And that's without any barbed wire,shells and machine guns.

[Total Chaos]

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Why?......

[Bargepole23]

Could it be up at Redmires dams? I believe (may be wrong) that it (where the top dam is) was lit up in WW2 to make it look like Sheffield to confuse enemy bombers. There's certainly loads of craters there. As I say, I could well be wrong ... something I remember my Grandad telling me when I was a kid. I'd like to know more about it.

 

I thought the mock Sheffield thing was at Totley Moor/towards Fox House?

[ANGELFIRE1]

I find the links that posters have provided really interesting. The only knowledge I have of Redmires was from my Grandad when I was just a kid. I've always (mistakenly, I guess) presumed he meant WW2 ... working it out, it must have been WW1. He also told me about the POW camp (now gypsies) at Lodge Moor ... I've never really given it much thought before. I'm vaguely aware of the history of Lodge Moor Hospital ... I'm now going to Google stuff as I'm genuinely interested. If anyone has any good links, let me know please.

Hope I'm not being off topic here and that it's what the OP is referring to.

 

Aye, I was in Lodge Moor isolation Hospital 55 years ago with Scarlet Fever.

 

Brings back memory's.

 

Regards

 

Angel.

[Granma]

Hill 60 info.

 

Thanks for this, Lyme.

 

Granma.