Sad to say, I only ever ended up on the Findo Gask road by accident, and then didn't know there was anything there, or else I wouldn't have bolted for the main road so quickly

I forgot to mention the existence of the Battle HQ there in the last post, just to inspire some interest, so well mentioned.

At a guess, from the pics I've seen, it stand a good chance of surviving, as it's well hidden now, and clearing it, and a space around it would need serious effort.

Still working on adding to the list, and still discovering new ones! It appears Duff House in Banff was used for PoWs around 1942/42, yet the only camp listed for Banffshire is Sandyhillock.
Seems to be an anomaly on the Kirkcudbright one; a member of the local history society is looking into it for me. He says the camp was actually at Twynholm, but it'll all come out in the wash.

I read somewhere that "Working Camps" were sometimes little more than an administative centre with the POWs living in the farms they worked at or in hostels.  This might account for Duff House.

That's quite feasible. I saw it mentioned on a KOSB veteran's account on a website; he mentioned being posted there in 1942 and that German prisoners had recently left.
Now, it's a large estate and quite possible that the PoWs were in a hut somewhere on it.

For information:

Further to the note posted at the start of this thread, I've completed the revision to the code that allows British National Grid References to be used to add markers to out maps using the gma-point option.

This is now a single markup of the following form (where NGR is the National Grid Reference):

(:gma-point (:llVgm NGR :) text='Descriptive text' :)

Or, if it is desired to have links to the markers shown on the page:

(:gma-point (:llVgm NGR :) link='Descriptive text' :)

This now analyses the NGR, and will handle 4, 6, 8, or 10 digit examples, with two letter prefixes, to plot the marker location. 12 digit, non-prefix co-ordinates haven't been encountered so far, so are not catered for, although we do convert to the co-ordinates internally, in order to access some of the maps we provide.

Note that this is the number of numeric digits in the NGR, and the corresponding NGR character lengths, with the two letter prefix included are 6, 8, 10, and 12 characters.

I've revised the PoW Camps summary page to use the new function, and will be mopping up any uses of the old (:ll6gm... :) markup described earlier, to eliminate it, as it is now redundant.

I have found a page referring to PoWs being used as bricklayers and labourers on the construction of the Loch Sloy hydro electric scheme.   Apparently they were housed in a camp at Ardvorlich a couple of miles to the north of the power house.  This would have been after the war and pending repatriation so is not strictly PoW Camps WWII.

Yes, that would be correct.

Many of the schemes' histories have accounts and reference to ex-PoWs taking part in the construction work.

One of the lesser publicised items at the time, for understandable reasons then, but not ignored or forgotten.

Quoted from The Fox

I have found a page referring to PoWs being used as bricklayers and labourers on the construction of the Loch Sloy hydro electric scheme.   Apparently they were housed in a camp at Ardvorlich a couple of miles to the north of the power house.  This would have been after the war and pending repatriation so is not strictly PoW Camps WWII.

I presume that is the hut bases by the side of the A82, always wondered about them.

I think they were still PoWs until 1948.  I have been reading a book about Gwynedd and Anglesey in WWII, there is a section on POWs working on farms that says that and also has a picture of one POW's Alien Pass which describes him as a member of the German Army until 1948.

I knew I'd read about this recently

Excellent write-up, complete with pictures... and memorials to the dead:

Arrochar, Tarbet and Ardlui Heritage - The Loch Sloy Hydro-Electric Scheme 1950

I read a very large part of the story here Apollo, and found it a thrilling piece of Scottish history. I thoroughly enjoyed the read. I climbed up the Loch Sloy road from the Loch Lomond side around '45 or '46, and still recall the struggle to get to the top. We did get there and got a can of boiling water from some workers there for our drum-up. I notice in one of the book's pictures a cyclist riding behind a very wide lorry and would you believe I got out my magnifying glass to see if I recognized him!
Thanks for a great story.

Glad you liked it (and that I remembered it) - you certainly were there at the right time, and water for you tea too, you'll have needed it

I'm sure you didn't miss it, but just case, since it's not too noticeable at the foot of the Sloy page, there are a couple of further links, and one to a piece of documentary:

Rivers at Work

A B&W production of the time, I think the style of these early pieces way ahead of the vast majority of today's colour productions (that not to imply the colour's the problem, it's not), which largely seem to be produced by people intent on proving the phrase "form over function" as they seem to lavish more effort on the editing and camera work, than the content. It's as if many producers see everything they make as a sales pitch for their next job, and forget to concentrate on the subject matter.

The old documentaries still stand head and shoulders above many modern takes on the same subjects, and the commentators stick to the subject, rather than attempting to be funny or make snide comments whenever the opportunity arises (yes, ok, I'll get off the soapbox again, before I'm pushed ).

There are some cyclists at the start of the film...

My question really was - should this camp be added to the PoW Camps WWII page?

No, it's not a military PoW camp intended to hold prisoners captured in time of war and hold them securely to prevent them returning to their duties.

This site was mentioned in BritRegiments, seems to have more details of POW camps than the English Heritage file.

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MB