I would imagine this was a popular move with the men as farmer’s wives were usually good cooks and there was always plenty to eat even when food was still rationed. If the camp where they were billeted in, in this case on Wellbrook road in Peterchurch, was a distance from the farm where they were working regularly the farmer could ask for them to live at the farm with his family. There were two Italian prisoners-of-war living in the house with us but I don’t remember their names. My earliest memories of my home at Penlan, Peterchurch must be from just after the end of the Second World War. Eva’s observations of day-to-day life locally during the war and its aftermath are also fascinating.Įwyas Lacy Study Group PENLAN AS I KNEW IT-1942 ONWARDSįirst written October 19 TH 2001 & modified thereafter As with the Prisoner of War camp in Dorstone described elsewhere on this website, the residents of the POW camp at Peterchurch seem to have settled easily into the local community and left lasting and fond memories very much at odds with those that might be expected of enemies in wartime. We are grateful to Eva Morgan for sending us this account of her recollections of wartime in the Golden Valley. Oral History: Memories of the Second World War in the Golden Valley
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