Cultybraggen Camp - December 2008
This for me was the best iv done to date, i went here as a cadet many a time (see my other post)
So it brought a lot of memories back ha ha!
Anyway on to the show
Bit of info
Situated on 90 acres of land at the entrance to Glen Artney, in the Perthshire countryside, Cultybraggan Camp has a broad history dating back to 1939 when it originally opened as No. 21 War Training Camp. Currently consisting of just under 100 Nissen Huts, Cultybraggan was known as a “black camp” and housed around 4,000 “Category A” Prisoners of War, who were thought to be the most extreme Nazi prisoners at the time, requiring a maximum security camp.
In 1945 the camp was disbanded, only to reopen as an Army Training Centre in 1949. Apart from an area of huts to the Western side of the camp, which were demolished in the 1970s to make way for a firing range, the rest of the Nissen huts remain, having had the original WW2 Pot-Bellied stoves swapped for LPG powered heaters at some point. Most traces of the camp’s former role have now disappeared, with the exception to the isolation block, which was converted into a storage facility.
Think we are getting close
The camp
6th one in was the billet i stayed in
inside the billet (check the other post out for the originals)
Ring a ding ding!!!
The NAFFI
Inside the mess hall
The isolation block, i dread to think what happend to POW's in here
Grass
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