From the Sept. 29, 2009, (U.K.) Daily Mail.
It was listed on e-Bay and had been dropped to 900,000 pounds from $1 million. Such a Deal!!
The item for sale is the Harperly POW Camp, near Crook in County Durham and it has been a tourist attraction since 2004. Lisa and James McLeod have spent nearly 1 million pounds of their own money renovating it.
The McLeods think the former German/Italian prison has tremendous potential.
The first prisoners were Italians who slept in tents in the early 1940s before they built huts for themselves. They stayed on the site until September 1944, when 900 Germans arrived.
One former German POW, Bert Trautmann, became a famous footballer (soccer) for Manchester City after the war.
The prison was on 17 acres and had 50 structures, including a chapel and a theater. Prisoners were considered "low risk." They were often allowed to go into town and about 10% remained in the area after the war ended.
Even so, reportedly, when Hitler or other high-ranking Germans appeared on newsreels, the prisoners reportedly would cheer.
After the war, the camp was used as storage. Ten murals remain inside the structures that were painted by the homesick Germans.
Own Your Own Piece of History. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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