PoW Camp 105 Wooler

This site is now occupied by a large school building Glendale Community Middle School and appears to be post war in design

Location

Glendale Community Middle School, Brewery Rd, Wooler NE71 6QF

Description

Site Visits

August 2019

Material

DSLR Photos
UK Foreign Office Inspection Report

This site is now occupied by a large school building Glendale Community Middle School and appears to be post war in design The school was built within the grounds of the former PoW Camp of which no trace remains.

There is some very interesting research on this site carried out by Peter Wood and is included within comments and research of Malcolm Saunders in that an incident were a PoW was found bludgeoned to death with another PoW responsible for the killing. More information is included as to this site by Mr Wood on WW2, including a merged new and old photo of the site.


Camera Images of the site of former PoW Camp 105 Wooler


Extracts from UK Foreign Office Inspection Report from UK National Archives Kew:

FO 1120/183 PoW Camp List 20Feb47 – Inc Camp 105