Story of Skipton PoW camp found in shoebox

    Photo Credit - Yorkshire Post

    The story of a German Prisoner of War camp in Skipton has been discovered – in a shoebox.

    Abandoned for a century in the town library, a book full of the memoirs of German prisoners sheds light on life in the World War One camp.

    Before becoming a housing estate, Raikeswood was an army base were the Bradford Pals were trained before leaving for the Somme.

    The site them became a PoW camp to house German officers.

    A grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund will now help finance an English translation of the memoirs.

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