Hidden History - North East

Three splendid drone images by Heather Laurence Photography (and some of my own close-ups). We believe that this building was the ablutions block of the camp, based on the pipework and the circular feature, which may have been the filter bed. However,  its proximity to the building could rule that out. Potentially, there are 3 more buildings to explore. The land owners are kind and really open to us exploring the site. Happy days! We are not revealing the location as it is on private land.

Shipley Moss. We have discovered that  the quarry where the prisoners worked was owned by Stobart’s "Knitsley   Fell   Gannister Company", and the gannister was used to produce special bricks designed to stand the intense heat of iron production kilns. Thanks to Billy Francis from the UK Bricks and Brickworks Past Facebook group, we can see some of the bricks Stobarts produced for their iron blast furnaces. Thanks to  John S Alderson for the information. This wonderful group can be found at:  UK Bricks and Brickworks Past . Eastgate Thanks to a (yet another!) friendly and helpful Weardale farm owner, we managed to take these images of the ruined buildings of the site of the Eastgate POW camp. Hopefully, we will be able to undertake some archaeology at the site.