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Site of POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield
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Note of War Office planning meeting on 9 December 1941 (part)
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POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield
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"Garswood Hall Entrance"
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POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield, c.1943
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Cards sent by Italian prisoners from POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield
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Fr (later Canon) Michael Casey, c.1944
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Crib at St Oswald's Roman Catholic Church, Ashton-in-Makerfield, made by Italian POWs
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POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield, 1945
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“Skin, Skin”: Woodhead Farm nr Hermitage Green, Winwick, 7.5.18
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Ashton-in-Makerfield UDC Finance & General Purposes Committee minutes, 16 November 1942 (extract)
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“I'll smash heez bloddy face in with theez shovel”: Lily Farm, Stubshaw Cross
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“Mussolini’s vaunted fascisti sulked like overgrown children”: Southworth Hall Farm nr Croft, Winwick, 7.5.18
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Unidentified prisoners and soldiers, POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield, c.1943
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“Italians and Girls: Three Men Accused At Court-Martial”, The Liverpool Echo, 23 May 1945
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“Court-Martial Sequel: 700 Italians' One-day Strike After Fight in Lancashire Town”, Manchester Evening News, 24 May 1945
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Italian and German POW graves at Newton-le-Willows cemetery, 1945
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“non si parla proprio niente del nostro rimpatrio”: letter from POW T12950 Soldato Domenico Zigrino, 14 October 1945
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“Farm Deaths Mystery: Italians Collapsed at Work”, Liverpool Echo, 26 November 1945
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“Dann kommt eine neue deutsche Jugend”: Bernhard “Bert” Trautmann, 1940
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Inspection Report, POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield, 27 September 1945
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“a busy time”: Highfield Farm, Lowton
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Statements by POWs at Golborne I & II Hostels, 11 June 1946
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Report of lectures by E Amy Buller, March 1946
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POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield, c.1943
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“Aufbauwille” No. 6, June 1946
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Inspection Report, POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield, 8 July 1946 (part)
The Makerfield Archive:
“Aufbauwille” No. 8, July 1946
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Inspection Report, POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield, July 1946 (part)
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Correspondence between CSM Bloch and FO/PID, May-July 1946