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HUT 9
PRESERVATION
GROUP - GRWP CADWRAETHWYR
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
WARTIME
BRIDGEND
Saturday 16TH JUNE 2018
This weekend the town of Bridgend is going to
turn back the clock to WW1 & WW2.
The
Hut 9 Preservation Group plus re-enactors will be there all
day, in support of this annual event.
A
family day, so see you there.
October
2018
EVENT
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th OCTOBER
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Our Events bookings
process for our October Open Weekend is currently
closed. We shall announce here when it will open.
Thank you all for your
support.
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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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 - Chair
Stel Anthony - Secretary
Richard Williams - Treasurer
Wayne Gill - Project Manager
Neil Gibbon - Deputy Project Manager
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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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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.
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