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October 19, 2007
Blanches Banques POW Camp
A little Jersey History for you guys:
I am doing a job at the moment which has quite an interesting piece of Jersey History on the site.
It's an old prisoner of war hut from the Blanches Banques Prisoner of War camp during World War 1.
The camp held over 1500 German prisoners, 150 guards, and a staff of 20 or 30 officers.
I took a photo of what it looks like now and also managed to dig up some photo's of the original camp dating back to 1917. The photo's and a little explanation are in the extended entry:
This is what the pow hut looks like now. Considering it is over 90 years old it is at least still standing.
The 3 photo's above are what they originally looked like.
Click below for more information:
THE GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR CAMP AT JERSEY, DURING THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918
Thanks to www.greatwarci.net
Posted by Markiss at October 19, 2007 3:50 PM
Comments
so whats your job then?
Posted by: Beav at October 20, 2007 10:08 AM
Building 8 houses on the site. So since this is an important part of our history, the hut is going to be moved to a new site and not demolished.
Posted by: Markiss at October 20, 2007 12:21 PM
