Archaeology Notes

Event ID 734447

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG53NE 10 centred 55556 35716

See also NG53NE 8, NG53NE 9, NG53NE 13, NG53NE 14, NG53NE 16 and NG53SE 3 and NG53SE 7.

Rows of 32 terraced houses which were used to accomodate about 280 German prisoners-of-war. They were employed on the Iron Mine site and used for various tasks including on the railway, kilns and at the pier.

The houses were originally built to house Baird's Mine workers.

Information from Defence of Britain Project form (P & L Draper), 1996.