WW2 Related sites in Sheffield

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There was an arms dump at the top side of Grenoside that had underground stores , it is now  a crematorium.

[Robin Brook 0]

There was a prisoner of war camp  at Lodge Moor.

[Guest makapaka]

The sign for the old ARP point is still visible at the back of the shops on Crosspool.

[carosio 186]

On 29/01/2022 at 11:27, Robin Brook said:

There was a prisoner of war camp  at Lodge Moor.

A lady I knew (later in the video) sang at concerts for the guards and staff there, as well as many other camps in Yorkshire.

 

 

[Davey1889 0]

The Lodge Moor camp was the focal point for a planned mass escape of German POWs in 1944 that never came to fruition. The plan was for escapes to take place at all the UK camps, which held many thousands of prisoners, and for them all to congregate at Lodge Moor before marching on Sheffield. It was set for December 1944 and intended to cause disruption in the UK to divert resources from defending the Ardennes offensive. 

 

There is a book by Charles Whiting called 'The march on London' that details this (page 109).

Edited February 2, 2022 by Davey1889

[cuttsie 1,089]

There is a Anderson shelter still in place on Hallwood road  in a front garden , about half way up on the right hand side

[carosio 186]

2 hours ago, cuttsie said:

There is a Anderson shelter still in place on Hallwood road  in a front garden , about half way up on the right hand side

Back garden actually; a friend worked on that house a few years ago.  Extremely long back gardens around there.

[cuttsie 1,089]

1 hour ago, carosio said:

Back garden actually; a friend worked on that house a few years ago.  Extremely long back gardens around there.

Must be a different house Mr Caruso , this one is in the front garden snuggled up against the high  stone boundry wall , it is over grown with brambles and is around no 60 to 80 house no .

If you do not look closely you can miss it , the bloody Germans did .

[Rockers rule 673]

These sites are worth checking.

The last one deals with the Italian POW camp at Hickleton, Nr Doncaster as mentioned in one of Brian Blessed's books. 

 

Every prisoner of war camp in the UK mapped and listed | News | theguardian.com

 

The forgotten history of Yorkshire's WWII prisoner of war camps (yorkshirepost.co.uk)

 

Prisoners of War in Yorkshire | DigVentures 

 

Happy reading  .

[carosio 186]

3 hours ago, cuttsie said:

Must be a different house Mr Caruso , this one is in the front garden snuggled up against the high  stone boundry wall , it is over grown with brambles and is around no 60 to 80 house no .

If you do not look closely you can miss it , the bloody Germans did .

My apologies, I hadn't noticed that one. The other was there perhaps 8-10 years ago down the back garden, and could be seen from Handsworth Rd, but down at the lower end of Hall Road.

[cuttsie 1,089]

53 minutes ago, carosio said:

My apologies, I hadn't noticed that one. The other was there perhaps 8-10 years ago down the back garden, and could be seen from Handsworth Rd, but down at the lower end of Hall Road.

This is Hallwood Road at the Burncross . Grenoside

[Guest makapaka]

On 02/02/2022 at 11:12, cuttsie said:

There is a Anderson shelter still in place on Hallwood road  in a front garden , about half way up on the right hand side

One on Tinker lane in crookes also