Weston POW

Inside two of the Nissen huts at Weston Prisoner of war camp near Crewe. Built around 1942 to house low risk Italian prisoners, many of whom eventually integrated into the local community and formed families of their own. Initially a sub-camp of 74 Racecourse Camp at Tarporley, the site was expanded to 38 huts, and post WW2 was known as "Weston Hostel 189 G.P.W. working camp" housing around 300 low risk German PoWs until it's closure in 1947. In 2018 not long after these photographs were taken three of the Nissen huts were dismantled and taken to East Kirkby aviation museum before the site was flattened to make way for new housing.