People’s Memories of Fulney Park Camp (Camp 153) and Sutton Bridge Camp
Ivan Bateman : “It is apparent from reading the newspaper reports from the time that preparations for War were in full swing well before
Ivan Bateman : “It is apparent from reading the newspaper reports from the time that preparations for War were in full swing well before
From Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, Saturday 18 August 1945: P.O.W.s ON LAND WORK 300 Germans in South Holland In addition to others who are
According to a previous article on the Lincs To The Past website, Fulney Park Camp was recorded as being a dispersed German working camp. A
Alfred Weber, who became a land worker, died on the 21st October 1962 of a skull fracture, which brought on brain injury, and dislocation of
Adolf Weber married Joy Louisa Wright (formerly Winyard, divorced from a man named Eric Wright) when he was 35 years old, in December 1949. Joy
Translation: Birth Certificate Registry Office: Pforzheim Adolf Weber is born 25th February 1914 in Pforzheim Father: Roofer Adolf Weber, Protestant Mother: Friederike Weber, born Lutz,
“School children were encouraged to work on the land during the summer holidays, and I, along with friends, went to work for Nell Brothers in
Fulney Park Camp: NGR: TF 272 222 52” 46’ 56” N 0” 6’ 55” W Type: GWC (German Working Camp) Officer in Command in 1947:
The project will try and find out more about the camp and if possible memories of the prisoners and the community. Announcement about Fulney Park
Visible on the 1950’s 6-inch Ordinance Survey map is Fulney Park Camp, or camp 153. The site is currently a market garden, but the Second
Mr Bateman has written another excellent article about Fulney Park, Low Fulney, Spalding was a Prisoner of War camp during the Second World War. In
The National Archives at Kew has a Foreign Office Inspection Report from 1947, which lists all the prisoner-of-war camps that were in the UK at
Alongside the Women’s Land Army, German and Italian prisoners of war (POWs)became an absolutely vital backbone of South Holland’s agricultural workforce during and immediately after World
Hi. I can remember coming to that blacksmiths shop (Chain Bridge Forge) when I was about 6 years old. I’d broken my pedal go-kart. About
Sent to Dortmund, this letter has the two line cachet P.O.W. MAIL POST FREE and the circular P.O.W. CAMP No. 153 GREAT BRITAIN. In July
The German POWs who died of influenza in or near Spalding were buried in a section of Spalding Cemetery (rows 98 – 100). Eichendorf, aged
June Spouncer – I am in touch with the Wainwright Children of Fred and Grace who lived there in the 50s and early 60s –
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