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Camp 18, POW camp at Featherstone Castle
Here is the memorial
Here was the entrance to POW camp 18 where thousands of German officers were held in the years 1945 - 48. The interpreter since January 1946 was Captain Herbert Sulzbach O.B.E. who dedicated himself to making this camp a seed bed of British German reconciliation. Our two nations owe hm a heart felt thanks. The friends and members of the Featherstone Park Association of Former Inmates of Camp 18, 1982. Apart from the gateposts there is virtually nothing left...could be that the river North Tyne has eroded it all away. See this picture with the road undercut.this is the nearby weir - a popular fishing spot.
and here is the castle



