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Island Farm Camp. Books have been written and television programmes have been made about the place. It was originally built in the late 1930’s as accommodation for mostly women workers at the huge ammunition and ordnance factories at Bridgend and Brackla. The dreary, spartan camp proved to be unpopular, but in 1943 it was used to accommodate American troops in preparation for D-Day. After the GI's moved on, the camp was briefly empty until it was used as an overspill pow camp for the high number of Axis troops who were being taken prisoner on the continent. This was when it was designated Camp 198. Later, the camp was re-designated Special Camp Eleven and was used only for high-ranking German officers, including von Rundstedt, Manstein, von Kleist, Dornberger et al., who were awaiting re-patriation or trial at Nuremberg. These men practically ran the war on the German side and also advised Hitler on military matters.
The camp was closed in 1948 and remained derelict until a few years ago when it was all demolished. Today, the area is an overgrown wasteland.
Please excuse the picture quality, as at that time I used a Canon Ion, which was a sort of early 90's digital/analogue hybrid forerunner to the digital cameras we all love today. So what this meant was that the only storage was on the tiny floppy disc, which was roughly the size of a Minidisc. There was no external storage, no sound, no video recording and the only output was a composite VIDEO out. Picture quality / resolution was equal to VHS. I wish I'd taken my old Zenith E SLR!
There aren’t many external shots, as at the time I wanted to concentrate on the interior ‘wall art’, but photos of the camp in its heyday can be found here. And for those who wasn’t some more detailed info look [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Farm"]here[/ame]. The full set: Flickr, to which I'll add a few more pics if I can find them.
Enjoy.
Miss Flexible, who is now Mrs Flexible, making a sketch.
What's left today - the former parade ground / playing field.
The pile of rubble that was once the huts.
The camp was closed in 1948 and remained derelict until a few years ago when it was all demolished. Today, the area is an overgrown wasteland.
Please excuse the picture quality, as at that time I used a Canon Ion, which was a sort of early 90's digital/analogue hybrid forerunner to the digital cameras we all love today. So what this meant was that the only storage was on the tiny floppy disc, which was roughly the size of a Minidisc. There was no external storage, no sound, no video recording and the only output was a composite VIDEO out. Picture quality / resolution was equal to VHS. I wish I'd taken my old Zenith E SLR!
There aren’t many external shots, as at the time I wanted to concentrate on the interior ‘wall art’, but photos of the camp in its heyday can be found here. And for those who wasn’t some more detailed info look [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Farm"]here[/ame]. The full set: Flickr, to which I'll add a few more pics if I can find them.
Enjoy.
Miss Flexible, who is now Mrs Flexible, making a sketch.
What's left today - the former parade ground / playing field.
The pile of rubble that was once the huts.
The link on the place is interesting 
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