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ricky1
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Hi Pat
I think you will find it is now the International Farm Camp, which is just outside Fridaybridge. Will try and get down to the local library here in Wisbech, later on in the week, and see what I can find out about it
ricky
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ricky1
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I will also ask the old boy across the road when I see him, he's lived here all his life, and was in the second world war, so he might know something.
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ricky1
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Looks like it was POW camp during the war
http://www.kg6gb.org/pow_camps_in_uk.htm
number 90 on the list going down
Friday Bridge Camp, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire - standard type
Ex guard remembers about 2000 German POWs in 1945
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hi thanks for that,i thought maybe it would have been.grandad was there 1948/9,he was at other camps before this one,and the one after wisbech was the lbc hostel which was workig for london brick company at peterborough.
im guessing from the area he was maybe sent there for fruit picking or something like that,in the 1970s i was regular with most my family picking the strawberry fields
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Hi Pat
I think its now used by this company
http://www.labourproviders.org.uk/ALP-member-details.aspx?user_id=322
when I worked for an agency or gangmasters as they are better know as around here, I used to go there and pick workers up. Most of them come from Poland and other Eastern Europe Country's. Most of it was for farm labour, but now a lot of them work in factory's etc. Dont think it has changed much since your grandads days, they still sleep in long buildings.
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hi ricky
thanks for that, that could well be it as he did say he did farm work when he came over,but he was at so many camps i didnt know which one,but it sounds like maybe the one at fridaybridge is the place.many thanks pat
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hall,bowey,turnbull,danby -northumberland
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Hi Pat
Your welcome, but will see what else I can find at the library, and off the old feller across the road, he likes to talk about the old days, thing is once he starts I might not get back on here for a week 
regards
ricky
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evw = European volunteer worker
Approx 84,000 were recruited from displaced people from Central Europe in 1947/8, to work in undermanned industries
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Hi Tobin
had a word with old fella across the road this morning, he said that during the war it was a POW camp. After the war it took in refugees. He said he had a photo of the camp, not sure if it was during or after the war, but he is going to try and find it. As soon as I get it will post it on here for you. Will try and get down to the library as soon as posible to see if they have any info on the camp, but that wont be for a couple of weeks, as will be busy next week or so.
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i could do with a few more of the older generation who like to talk in my family,the ones i have dont want to talk or cant remember