PoW Camp 108 Thirkleby

Parts of this former PoW Camp have survived and appear to be an active farm. As such access was limited and a repeat visit with actual site access is needed

Location

White Horse Farm, Low Road, Great Thirkleby, Yorkshire

Description

Site Visits

May 2019

Material

DSLR and Drone Photo
UK Foreign Office Inspection Report

Despite efforts on my part prior to visiting this site and then visiting adjacent houses and farms I was unable to contact the site owner. As this site, or parts of it appear to be an active pig farm I was unable to safely enter the site as such I took a number of images from the site boundary with my camera and then used a drone to take other shots of the site.

Having said the above, I need to revisit and to photograph this site properly as along with a number of similar sites that serve as a farm and light industrial usage some buildings remain in use and others have been abandoned making this a primary site to photograph.


Camera and Drone Images of the site of former PoW Camp 108 Thirkleby


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

FO 1120/183 PoW Camp List 20Feb47 – Inc Camp 108