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POWS from Sighthill Camp 1947

1947
POWS from Sighthill Camp 1947
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This picture shows some of the POWS from the Camp helping to move Timber across the Wester Hailes Road to the site of Sighthill Bowling Club.
The building in the background is one of the Sighthill Farm workers cottages demolished in the 1950s.

Stuart Laidlaw Added by Stuart Laidlaw

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Location:
Sighthill Sighthill and Wester Hailes
Categories:
Childhood Daily Life Sport & Leisure
Contributor:
Stuart Laidlaw
Scrapbooks:
Stuart Laidlaw's History of the Prisoner of War Camp Sighthill 1940-1955 Sighthill

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