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HUT 9
GRWP CADWRAETHWYR - PRESERVATION GROUP
Island Farm,
Bridgend, Wales
former GERMAN Prisoner of War Camp 198 & Special Camp
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Continuing the Hut 9
Open Weekend
tradition...
The Hut 9 Preservation Group
is sorry for the Sunday cancellation of our Open Weekend on March 18 due
to bad weather conditions.
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT
 june
2018 event DATES
Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd jUNE
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Our Events bookings
process is currently open to take bookings for our June
2-3 Open Weekend.
You may book your place at an
Event for a free tour inside
Hut 9,
by emailing
Bookings@Hut9.org.uk
and tell us how many tickets you need, the date and your preferred
time slot.
The Hut 9 tours usually begin on the hour at 10am on Saturday (last
tour commencing at 3pm), and 9am on the Sunday (last tour commencing at 2pm). Each tour
lasts approximately 90 minutes.
POLITE REMINDER
The Hut 9 tours are FREE, but we
shall be accepting donations during the Event to fund our current and future work on improving
Hut 9 and the
visitors' experience.
Please be prepared to give generously! Thank
you.
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October
2018
EVENT
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th OCTOBER
Important Notice
Brett Exton's
ISLAND FARM website has acquired a very special domain name!
IslandFarm.Wales
We are a
local group of four volunteers that have been asked to help preserve Hut 9, the last
remaining building on the
Island Farm site in Bridgend, South Wales.
We have many
aims for the future and some of these include the preservation of the building,
its escape tunnel (The Welsh Great Escape) and the collection and preservation of
all material pertaining to Island Farm and its former Prisoner of War Camp. This includes photographs,
documents, eyewitness accounts and day-to-day objects used in the camp.
Our Group's
core-members are:
Brett Exton, Richard Williams,
Wayne Gill,
Stel Anthony
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Hut 9, Island
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Hut9 Preservation Group
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There
are two Bridgend websites, created and maintained
by local historians/ members of our Preservation Group, containing bags of information, facts, figures and
very rare pictures. These websites are very unique and the
only
and main global
source material reference on the web regarding the Island
Farm PoW Camp and the Munitions Ordnance factory in Brackla. |
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www.islandfarm.wales
by Brett Exton
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www.bracklaordnance.co.uk
by Richard Williams
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 We
are grateful for the support received from BCBC. For further visitor information, things to
do, places to stay and events to see around Bridgend, please visit
Bridgend Bites.
You can also download the Dare To Discover
App from
Apple Store HERE or
Google Play HERE.
Advertise for FREE on Dare To
Discover App
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with questions or comments about this web site.
Hut 9 aerial view (looking East). Photograph by
Jerzy Grzywaczewski (June 2014).
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Aerial picture taken by Ade Pitman (Biggles Ade)
during our March 2015 Open Weekend.
Hut
9 preservation group