POW Camps Around Leeds

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Thu 31 May, 2007 4:24 pm

Re request from Farnley Bloke.In 1945 I was a 15 year old electrician's apprentice working at Jabez Wooley's Brickworks and quarry on Swinnow Road Bramley. I think the site is now part of the Stanningley by-pass.plus some factories and officesadjacent.I remember there were several German POW's working thereand I found them very friendly especially when I told them my father had just been liberated from Stalag XXB in Poland!I gather that the POW's were billeted at Post Hill.Hope this is of interestarry awk.

FarnleyBloke · Post by **FarnleyBloke** » Fri 01 Jun, 2007 11:53 am

Thanks arry, that's great. It does seem that alot of the POW's were put to work in quarries. I wonder what would be said of making POW's work nowadays!!

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sat 02 Jun, 2007 1:37 pm

hi FB!Thunderous cries of shock and horror from the 'Ooman Rights Brigade, no doubt!Cheers arry

munki · Post by **munki** » Wed 02 Jan, 2008 5:34 pm

& again...

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Wed 02 Jan, 2008 5:38 pm

Thankx munki!Now for the Rosebanks Pix?CheersArry Awk

bramley13 · Post by **bramley13** » Wed 02 Jan, 2008 9:00 pm

i was told by my grandad the top of horsforth near old ball,greenbanks ave area used to be a pow camp

fred1935 · Post by **fred1935** » Wed 02 Jan, 2008 11:29 pm

Yes, I remember the Post Hill Prison Camp, 1945 I was only 10 years old and living in Armley we used to go to the Post Hill area. I seem to remember that we laid on our tummies at the top, looking down on the camp.

peterg · Post by **peterg** » Wed 23 Jan, 2008 6:01 pm

In 1941-2 I spent two years in Pontefract with relatives who lived in a house on Park Lane. On top of a hill in the park there was the water tower and at the foot they installed a barbed wire compound which it was said was destined to hold P.O.W.'s. However, I don't think that any ever got there.

Mike Wilkinson · Post by **Mike Wilkinson** » Thu 16 Apr, 2009 8:55 pm

The Moor Grange POW camp was in the angle of the junction between Spen Lane & the top of Butcher Hill with the entrance about opposite the end of Moor Grange View. At the beginning of the fifties it was still much intact with an entrance guardhouse, etc. As kids we played in there.Later in the fifties the brick semis that front both Butcher Hill & Spen Lane were built on the farm land that also contained the old camp. The stone farm house is still there standing opposite the top of Queenswood Drive at its Spen Lane junction.When I was a kid it was lived in by a guy called Fletcher who was a music master at Leeds Modern School at Lawnswood.Mike W

carith · Post by **carith** » Thu 16 Apr, 2009 9:41 pm

Wasn't there a POW camp in the Hunslet/ Stourton area.