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    Hill Top Farm Handsworth

    The three that got away. (Though I wonder for how long?)
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    POW Camps in and around Birmingham

    The site on the 1945 map shows that it was an area just about to be developed - so a most likely site to place one of the many temporary pow hostels. (With the name 'Jerrys Lane', it ought to hold Germans). There are several other hostel sites dotted around Birmingham, but they are linked to...
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    POW Camps in and around Birmingham

    I became interested in the WW2 pow camps after finding some old pow mail and wondering where it was from. I also remember my father telling me stories about the pow camp that was in Swanshurst Park (B13). I have just looked at the reports made about the pow camp at Maxstoke Castle (Camp 39). It...
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    Hill Top Farm Handsworth

    Uplands was a pow hostel (sub-camp). I do not (yet) know when it was opened, but it was initially administered by a main camp in Wolverhampton. Then, from late 1946 it was administered by the main Maxstoke Castle Camp 39. The Uplands pow site closed Feb/March 1948. It usually held between 80 -...
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    GERMAN/ITALIAN POWs IN BIRMINGHAM

    Great posts above - found all sorts of information - thank you. Sutton Park pow camp replaced the civilian internment camp there. There were several camps in Birmingham as can be seen above, they were all working sub-camps of larger ones. POWs received the same ration as soldiers - if they...
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