GRWP CADWRAETH Hut 9 preservation group

Former German POW Camp

Island Farm, Bridgend, WALES


 

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HUT 9 PRESERVATION GROUP


former GERMAN Prisoner of War Camp 198 & Special Camp XI

Island Farm, Bridgend, Wales

 

CIO - FOUNDATION

Registered 25 Feb 2022

Charity No. 1198068

 


 

many thanks to all visitors

for supporting our

HUT 9

Open Weekend EventS

More Open Weekend Events later on this year

 

To find out when our next event is and book your tickets, please visit:

www.islandfarm.wales/tickets

 

 

Although not suitable for children under 5 or people with mobility issues, this is truly an educational and fun family day out.

Learn about Bridgend's massive ordnance factories, the American troops based at the camp, the German POW escape and the high ranking German officers held there.

 

 

Thank you for your continuous support

Hut 9 Preservation Group CIO

 

See you all soon

 

The story behind this hand-drawn South Wales map.

 

Hut 9 Reenactors as POW German officers at Island Farm.

Bringing Hut 9 to life!

 


ANNOUNCEMENT

3 October 2021

 

Hut 9 fundraiser - https://gofund.me/679ef39b

Thank You for your generous donations

you have Helped OUR GROUP

preserve the history of Island Farm

 

We raised funds for the purchase of our Visitor Centre; the building which has kindly been loaned to us to date.

 

Our Visitors Centre, 11 March 2017

Our Visitor Centre, on 11 March 2017

As a Preservation Group we have been established for 10 years and have built up incredible public support. We host open weekends which are so popular. They are fully booked literally in a few days with over a thousand people attending over the course of a single weekend.

 

From your generous donations raised during these events we have already secured a considerable amount and with your donations we raised the remaining funds required to purchase  the Hut 9 Visitor Centre.

 

We would continue to refurbish and use this building as a Visitor Centre / museum. Without this building we have no storage, no display area or building from which to give our history talks.

 

Island Farm has been featured on numerous TV programmes and its history has literally touched countries across the world and we would truly be grateful if you could make a donation and help us to reach our target and preserve the WWII history of Bridgend.

 

Sincerest thanks for your solid support

Hut 9 Preservation Group CIO

& the cohort of our Volunteers and Re-enactors that bring our events to life...

 


 

ANNOUNCEMENT

15 October 2021

 

Channel 5, Tuesday 19 October 2021

Walking Wartime Britain - Episode 6

 

Discovering the people and places that changed the course of WWII

Hosted by acclaimed presenter Arthur Williams

 

Brett Exton tells the story of the Hut 9 Escape Tunnel

and the Welsh Great Escape

 


OUR MISSION

We are a local group of volunteers who have been asked to help preserve Hut 9, the last remaining building on the Island Farm POW camp site. Our group became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation since February 2022.

 

The history of this unique prisoner of war camp is of National significance for the 1939-1945 war period.

 

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.

The Hut 9 Preservation Group and the cohort of our volunteers and re-enactors who bring Hut 9 to life, are looking forward welcoming you to our next Open Weekend Event at Island Farm.

 

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered in England & Wales 25 Feb 2022

 

Our Charitable Objects as per our Governing Document

 

1. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE CADW DESIGNATED HISTORIC ASSET (11362), HUT 9 AT PRISONER OF WAR CAMP 198 AND SPECIAL CAMP XI, ISLAND FARM. WORKING WITH THE LOCAL AUTHORITY, CADW AND OTHER RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS TO PRESERVE AND SAFEGUARD THE BUILDING AND LOCAL HISTORY FOR THE BENEFIT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS.

 

2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE SITE THOUGH THE MEDIUM OF SITE VISITS, PRESENTATIONS, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS.

 

Thank you all for your support.

Looking forward to see you at Hut 9, during our next Open Weekend Event.

 

 

 

 

    

 JOIN us on Facebook    Hut 9, Island Farm P.O.W. Camp and ROF Bridgend

     FOLLOW us on TWITTER    Hut9 Preservation Group

 

 FOLLOW us on INSTAGRAM      Hut9PG. Official

 

 

The Island Farm website has been created and is maintained by local historian Brett Exton. It contains 'bags' of information, facts, figures and very rare pictures. A very unique and the only and main true global source material reference on the web regarding the unique story of Island Farm.

 

Disclaimer

The Hut 9 Preservation Group CIO, this web site and the two above are dedicated to the history and research of the Island Farm POW camp, the German POWs and the ROF in Bridgend, interned during the years 1938 -1948. Although the web sites make reference to profiles of many POWs both during WWI and WWII, our Group and the web sites are not about the politics of Nazism. 

The extensive use of photographs within these web sites are done so for historical purposes and should not be viewed as an attempt to glorify the tragic and sad events of WWII.

The web sites do not support in any way those who would condone or embrace individuals, groups and/or organisations that are intolerant, racist or violent.

The web sites do not support or endorse those that use the theme of WWII history to further their own political agenda.

It is through education, study and research that one may come to their own conclusions about WWII and the German experience. Those that do not attempt to do so are guilty of ignorance. Only through honest, objective and impartial research can one ever hope to understand the plight of so many millions of people during the Second World War.

The web sites are respectfully dedicated to all those who suffered and died during the most devastating war in human history, on all sides.

 

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