On Wednesday 9th October, during our holiday in Humberside and Lincolnshire we visited the museum Eden Camp.
The museum is located on the outskirts of the market town of Malton in North Yorkshire and is an award winning Modern History Theme Museum housed within the grounds of an original World War Two prisoner of war camp. It was developed into a museum to stand as a tribute to all people, civilian and military, who endured hardship throughout World War Two.
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Eden Camp was built as a Prisoner of War camp in 1942. A small number of Army troops arrived at Malton in 1942, and erected a barbed wire enclosure and tents which would serve as a camp for the influx of enemy prisoners of war captured in North Africa.Two hundred and fifty Italian prisoners were the first arrivals, and were ordered to construct a larger and more permanent prison camp. While at the camp, prisoners worked on nearby farms. The Italian prisoners left the camp in 1944, and German prisoners were detained there from 1944 until 1948.
Now, the huts are equipped to cover all aspects of World War Two, from social to military history. The huts cover subjects like Hitler and the Nazis, evacuation, propaganda, the Land Army, munitions factories, The Red Cross, the war at sea and in the desert, the life of a PoW, Dunkirk, the Dambusters, the Great Escape and many more.
There's a War News Reading Room with newspaper pages from nearly every day of the war; a collection of military vehicles; a 'dig for victory' garden; an assault course; a Garden of Remembrance; a music hall with puppet shows and war-time entertainment, and food served in the Mess.
There's a hut devoted to the First World War and one about British conflicts since the Second World War, including Palestine, Cyprus, Korea and Iraq.
Eden Camp was built as a Prisoner of War camp in 1942. A small number of Army troops arrived at Malton in 1942, and erected a barbed wire enclosure and tents which would serve as a camp for the influx of enemy prisoners of war captured in North Africa.Two hundred and fifty Italian prisoners were the first arrivals, and were ordered to construct a larger and more permanent prison camp. While at the camp, prisoners worked on nearby farms. The Italian prisoners left the camp in 1944, and German prisoners were detained there from 1944 until 1948.Now, the huts are equipped to cover all aspects of World War Two, from social to military history. The huts cover subjects like Hitler and the Nazis, evacuation, propaganda, the Land Army, munitions factories, The Red Cross, the war at sea and in the desert, the life of a PoW, Dunkirk, the Dambusters, the Great Escape and many more.
There's a hut devoted to the First World War and one about British conflicts since the Second World War, including Palestine, Cyprus, Korea and Iraq.
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