Field Visit

Date March 2004

Event ID 997757

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/997757

NO 5452 1245 Survey in March 2004 of the derelict POW work camp (NO51SW 61) at Bonnytown Farm recorded a small cluster of huts and other buildings. No evidence of the Italian prisoners who worked here was found, but the pre-cast concrete huts were of interesting late wartime design. Various details were recorded of the huts, the latrines, the antique electrical system, and of an 18th-century doocot (NO51SW 3) which forms part of the group. After the war, the buildings passed to civilian use, being lived in by various people including a farm worker, and latterly by students.

Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsor: M Kenneth Thom.

D P Bowler and C Smith 2004