World War Two military camp near Ryton on Dunsmore
Description of this historic site
A group of hut bases and other structures located on the junction of the A423 and A445 roads indicate the presence of a WW2 camp.
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Notes about this historic site
1 A group of 12 hut bases, 7 standing structures and an emergency water supply tank, indicating the presence of a WW2 camp, mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project.
2 The camp may be female accomodation associated with the nearby heavy anti-aircraft emplacement.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
My mother, then Dorothy Barbour, resided here after the war ended (she was about 9) with her family. My grandfather divided their section into rooms to make it more homely. Many of the blocks had beitifully drawn nudes, she recalls!
I was born, with a midwife in attendance) in one of the hutments in 1951 while my dad worked as a research engineer at the Ryton car factory. My dad engineered a way to connect running water to our home. My parents and brother had moved there from Fraserburgh Scotland.
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