POW Camp 106

Prisoner of War Camp 106, Empingham Road (A606) Stamford. Probably built early 1940s and classed as a standard work camp housing German and Italian prisoners.
After the war the camp was slowly demolished, being a caravan site at one time and for those that grew up in the area an excellent playground called 'the camp' with the water tower being the only remaining building surrounded by concrete roads and the bases of the demolished huts.
The father of one of our neighbours and family friends, in the 1960/70s when further housing estates were developed, was a German prisoner who met a local girl and stayed in Stamford. Our houses backed onto those in the picture.
In the early 1970s the site was redeveloped into a housing estate and the Danish Invader pub.
The crop mark in the field is the track of the Roman road known as Ermine Street which ran from London to York.

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Source

• Text: Sharky Ward
• Photos: historicengland.org.uk